Married At First Sight‘s Martha Kalifatidis has described a recent health scare as “the worst week of my life” in a confronting video.
In a two-part TikTok video, Martha, 35, told followers she’d been absent from social media after experiencing a major migraine following Australian Fashion Week.
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Martha, who reassured fans she’s doing well now, said that two days after her migraine began she went to a doctor who sent her for a CT scan.
She recalled how doctors believed they had spotted a colloid cyst on her brain in the scan and referred her for an MRI scan for further investigations.
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A colloid cyst is a benign, fluid-filled sac that arises in the area of the brain known as the third ventricle and requires immediate medical attention.
Martha recalled “hyperventilating” at the news.
”I was s–ting myself. I got the results on Tuesday, I spent all day on Wednesday cold-calling doctors and hospitals trying to get in and I couldn’t get in anywhere,” she said.
She was so worried she was unable to even look at her one-year-old son, Lucius.
“It’s so weird because I actually couldn’t even look at my baby that week,” Martha said.
“I couldn’t look at him, I couldn’t touch him, I couldn’t be around him. I just spent those days in my room alone,” she recalled.
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She was finally able to get an MRI three days after receiving her CT results.
“The sheer state of panic I was in. I just kept thinking everything was getting worse and worse… ‘How is this happening? How is this real?’ and just sitting in a hospital thinking all these things really intensifies it,” she said.
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After sitting down with the neurosurgeon, Martha was taken through various images of her brain.
“In the images there are two little lumps in my brain. She’s like, ‘OK, so you do have two calcium deposits in your brain that I can see in this photo and I just started panicking because I don’t know what that means.”
The doctor soon told her she had “nothing to worry about,” to which she replied: “OK, but what about the cyst?”
The doctor then informed her there wasn’t a cyst, and that her migraines may have been caused by a pinched nerve in her neck.
“I did not know what to do at this stage. I had jumped up out of my seat, I was sitting on Michael hugging him crying,” Martha said.
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“I spent the last week of my life thinking that I was going to have the most invasive brain surgery and potentially die in theatre or die from this very rare cyst in my brain and it was the darkest, most scary time of my life,” she said.
“The stress and the anxiety and the panic that I went through, I don’t wish that on anyone.”
She concluded by sending ”all the strength and all the courage” to anyone going through “something crazy like this”.
“I don’t actually have the words so I take my hat off and I send my strength and courage,” she said.
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