A 20 year-old woman has revealed the subtle symptoms she ignored for more than a decade, which turned out to be signs of deadly brain cancer. 

In a viral TikTok video that has been viewed over 2.4 million times, Carson Fossat, from Utah, America, said doctors only spotted the disease in June last year after a chance scan following a car accident.

Following the devastating diagnosis, Ms Fossat had to undergo brain major surgery to remove the tumour, which temporarily robbed her of the ability to walk, eat and see. 

‘Like I newborn baby, someone had to help me clean myself, brush my teeth and wipe my literal butt for months,’ she said in a social media clip.

The first symptom that was dismissed by doctors was persistent vomiting, which struck when Ms Fossat was a ‘little girl’.

‘It was normal for me to throw up at least once a week, if not every day, every couple of days. To the point my family would always joke with me about it,’ she said.

But doctors said her repeated bouts of vomiting were caused by anxiety, she claimed.

‘It turns out where the tumour at the back of my head, it was pressing against my brain stem and my “nausea center”, causing me to throw up.’

Carson Fossat, 20, was only recently diagnosed with brain cancer despite suffering symptoms since childhoood.

Carson Fossat, 20, was only recently diagnosed with brain cancer despite suffering symptoms since childhoood.

The symptom that had the biggest effect on her day to day life growing up was extreme exhaustion.

‘I was super fatigued. I was tired all the time.I would get more and more tired throughout the day and I would have to take naps,’ she said.

‘It was really hard for me to do school or work as I would have to nap for hours a day just to function.‘

She added: ‘I also got a lot of headaches that I was also told was caused by anxiety. But they were pressure headaches at the back of my head, which is where the tumour was.

‘I was super dizzy all the time, when I stood up I would get super dizzy. I was told this was due to a lack of iron, as I had low iron levels.’

The combination of symptoms meant she was ‘clumsy all the time’ and would often fall over.

Despite her long term symptoms and repeated trips to the doctor the tumour was only picked up after she was rushed to hospital following a car accident.

Thankfully, brain surgery to remove the disease proved successful and her latest scans show no signs of cancer. 

Your browser does not support iframes.

Your browser does not support iframes.

However she will have regular MRI’s for the next decade and is aware the cancer can return at any minute.

The regular scans mean ‘it’ll be caught early if it ever decideds to show up again,’ she said.

‘If it ever comes back, I’ll be ready.’ 

But recovery has not been easy, she told her social media followers.  

‘I have really struggled to get back into normal life. I have discovered that I am immunocompromised and literally got sick from everything,’ she said.

‘I also had a hard time accepting that I wasn’t the same loud extroverted, outgoing girl that went into surgery. I came out of it a completely different person.

‘I have struggled with anxiety and depression in the past but my mind went to a place that I didn’t know existed.’

Over 12,000 patients in Britain are diagnosed with a brain tumour each year, with about half of these cases being cancerous.

Common symptoms include tiredness, a loss of vision, seizures, nausea and headaches.

Glioblastomas, one of the deadliest types of brain tumour, have been highlighted in recent years after killing a number of famous faces.

The disease, which is the most common type of cancerous brain tumour in adults, killed the Labour politician Dame Tessa Jowell in 2018.

And in March 2022, The Wanted singer Tom Parker died following an 18-month battle with the cancer.

***
Read more at DailyMail.co.uk