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Tiny seizures and f to he face and head

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    • February 23, 2017 at 8:49 pm
    zfishberg
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      My husband has stage 4 melanoma with multiple lesions in  the head.

      He had craniotomy in October, Gamma Knife treatment in December and was on Mek/Taff combo for 3 month.

      We had to discontinue the combo because he developed very high fever and chills

      started on Keytruda last week.

      the MRI in December showed good progress – most lesions decreased in size.

      but the second MRI in February showed  3 new lesions, so waiting for the next Gamma Knife procedure.

      just a couple days ago he started feeling some kind of spasms in the face , back of head and radiating to the neck area.

      the spasms are short in duration – less than 1 min. – and do not cause any changes in facial expression.

      does anybody experienced this kind of spasms?

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        • February 24, 2017 at 2:53 am
        Judy Steven’s wife
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          Hi, my husband has multiple mets in brain too. He showed some neurological symptoms two weeks ago, and that was because of swelling in the brain / oedema around some of the tumors (that had been radiated with WBRT). So please ask your oncologist/doctor to check him out.

          I often check Steven;s eye's how they track and test his left and right responses etc, just to make sure he's not having any neurological stuff going on or more bleeds of the lesions etc.

          Stay on top of it. Good luck!

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