'I thought my seizures were because I was drinking too much coffee - then I got a horrifying diagnosis'

A dad-of-three blamed seizures on 'drinking too much coffee' - before a horrifying discovery.

Steve Biggin, 51, was diagnosed with a brain tumour after he began having 'out of body experiences' at work in September 2021. At first, he said they felt like 'looking through someone else’s eyes', but later found out he had in fact been having seizures.

After two months of regular seizures, Steve had a severe thunderclap headache and after going to A&E was dealt the 'huge shock' of a brain tumour diagnosis.

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Steve, a sales assistant at Morrisons, lives in Sheffield with his wife, Anna, 47, and has three children, Lauren, 28, Mya, 24, and Evan, 21. Steve said the seizures did not leave him 'fitting on the floor or anything like that' – though he did feel disconnected from the world.

He said: "I couldn’t explain how I felt. They were almost like out of body experiences looking through someone else’s eyes. I could still communicate and co-ordinate, it just felt so weird. It would happen at work when I was at the checkouts.

"I just put it down as drinking too much coffee so I didn’t really think much of it."

Steve continued having seizures up to once a week until, in November 2021, he had a severe and sudden thunderclap headache at home that, little did he know, was another warning sign of cancer. He said: "The headache lasted for about seven minutes. I was being a typical bloke and played it down a bit.

"I was sat in the living room with my family and told them and Maya, my daughter, said I needed to go to A&E."

To put his family’s mind at rest, Steve went to hospital, where doctors insisted he should have MRI and CT scans and kept him in the hospital for