India, March 6 -- A woman who went to the doctor complaining about facial pain which she thought was due to being stressed was shocked to hear their diagnosis was much more serious. According to the New York Post, 38-year-old Nicola Shaw had returned from a trip to Antarctica when she felt a "tingling" in her cheek.

Thinking it was caused by stress, Shaw ignored the pain. However, it soon spread to her nose, eye and head becoming so intense she had to keel over and clutch her head in agony.

When she went to see a doctor, they sent her to get an MRI. Calling it an "overreaction", Shaw went for an MRI but it revealed something that shocker her. The scan showed that she had a meningioma - a tumor in a rare and dangerous location near her b...