Doctors told me I had anxiety I was relieved to finally get diagnosed with a brain tumor

When Lea Marie was in college, she started fainting.She assumed she was just tired.Still, she went to a doctor, who diagnosed her with anxiety and put her on medication for it.

For Lea, that was that.“When you’re 22, you can’t really fathom like being sick,” the now-33-year-old told The Post.“You feel like everything is easy fix, right? So they were like, take these medications, you’re gonna feel better.

And I was like, great.”It took 10 years for her to discover the fainting and fatigue were actually caused by a tumor developing in her brain.In that time, she moved out of the city and cultivated her data science career in San Francisco — but her health got worse.Her episodes became seizures.One day, she was walking downtown with her 4-month-old daughter while pregnant with a second child when she started getting tunnel vision, as well as tingling in her mouth and tongue.

She began sweating and felt heart palpitations — and her vision went black.Even worse, she found herself waking up in the middle of the night to vomit.“It was just a lot of weird stuff that was going on, it could have been like anything,” she recalled.As her symptoms grew, Lea knew she needed to get to the root of the problem.

“After I had my two kids, I was like, I’ve got to take control of my health,” she said.“I need to be able to be there for them.

I can’t be worried [about] passing out or getting really sick.”She didn’t have any theories about what could be happening, and just wanted more information.“Overall I was feeling unwell, but I was also interested in better understanding my body,” she added.The search led her to book an appointment for a whole-body MRI with Prenuvo.Her scan there found a lesion, which is an abnormal tissue, in her brain, but it wasn’t big enough to be considered an emergency.

Prenuvo sent her to a neurologist, who did a second MRI, this time with contrast.They found the same lesion and asked her to come back in three mon...