Married At First Sight star Martha Kalifatidis has revealed her terrifying health scare after experiencing a continuous migraine. The 35-year-old took to TikTok on Thursday to tell her 142k followers, describing it as the “worst week of my life”. The new mum said she had been absent from social media after having a major migraine following Australian Fashion Week and went to visit a doctor after two days of suffering from it.
Journalism for the curious Australian across politics, business, culture and opinion. The doctor sent her for a CT scan, who believed they had spotted a colloid cyst on her brain in the scan and referred her for an MRI scan for further information. A colloid cyst is a rare brain tumour found in the fluid-filled brain regions called ventricles and is always benign.
The reality star was devastated by the news and spent the next week in a “panic”, unable to even look at her one-year-old son, Lucius. “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 recalled. “It’s so weird because I actually couldn’t even look at my baby that week. “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,” Martha continued. After three days, Martha was able to get an MRI following her CT results. “The sheer state of panic I was in.
I just kept thinking everything was.