A 20-year-old woman woke up with a hangover after a night out drinking with friends, but it turned out to be so much more than that . Allison Pickard, a pet sitter from Newport Beach, California, explained in a series of videos posted on social media how she discovered she had a 4 cm brain tumor that led to having surgery, chemotherapy, and radiation treatment. She woke up from a night out after only getting an hour of sleep and experienced a throbbing headache and "wobbly" vision, symptoms that she had experienced before , but shrugged them off because she was young and healthy, only for them to turn out to be cancer .
Nagging husband saves wife’s life after 'bitten tongue' turns out to be cancer 'Doctors told me my disturbing symptom was just hormones - it was actually cancer' Allison said: "I thought that I was just hungover. My vision was really bad, it was like I was on a boat and then it [my field of vision] was spinning so fast, it was really wobbly. It wasn't just in my peripheral anymore, I knew something was wrong.
" After that, she went to see her primary care doctor, where she had an MRI. This wasn't the first time the 20-year-old had felt similar symptoms. She suffered from frequent headaches that she blamed on everything from PMS to caffeine withdrawal.
About a month before her faux-hangover, she experienced pins and needles on one side of her body, but because it passed quickly, she brushed it off. She said: "I thought my doctor would tell me I have a vitamin .
