I have had 3 concussions and 2 other small head bonks/ I know I need to wear a helmet at all times. 
My question: Can repeat concussions ( 2 losing consciousness) cause Annies?
Good Morning @Abbycat70! There are a lot of theories of what causes aneurysms and they donāt really know. One of those theories is concussions. Iāve had a few myself, one being a very nasty one when I was 13 months old or so Iām told. Mom always said the side of my head swelled up like a grapefruit. There are other theories of course, familial links, obesity, smoking, high blood pressure, stress, etc. last time I had a procedure, my surgeon mentioned she and her team want to study genomes and their relationship to aneurysms. Personally, I think she is on to something. Otherwise, everyone with the aforementioned issues would have aneurysms and they are just too rare. What do you think?
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Well, letās seeā¦I need to lose weight, I have been a smoker, my emotions are bigā¦could be something to this theory.
The doctor is going to put in an order for an MRA. I tried to get a CT because
I hate the MRI machine, but no can do,
I think itās certainly possible - my neurosurgeon asked me if I had any history of head trauma, because I donāt have any other risk factors for aneurysm (no high blood pressure, mine is actually on the low end, no hereditary history, never a smoker, etc). At the time I said no, but my brain finally reminded me about a time in college that I hit my head pretty hard (got a nasty goose egg), and it was in the exact location of my aneurysm (which wasnāt detected until about 14 years later, a slow growing near-giant size, if that theory is true that itās from hitting my head). I never received medical treatment for the head injury, so I donāt know if I had a concussion, but I donāt remember having any typical symptoms of one.
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Whoaaaa there, Abbycat! Donāt be blaming yourself for whatās happened. Nobody knows why these things occur, and unless youāve got some research that points that way, why beat yourself up over it? (And even then ā¦ beating yourself up doesnāt get you anywhere, well anywhere good, anyway.) Now my theory is that aneurysms are caused by drinking milk at a young age. Iāll bet if you pressed them, everybody on this support site would admit to having started drinking the stuff shortly after they were born. And every last one of 'em has a BA. There. Perfect correlation: that must be it. 
Rude of me to butt in without an introduction. Iām Seenie, and Iām one of the ModSupport team: I work with the one and only Merl, our man ādownunderā. Merlās much cooler than I am, so itās just as well he drops in more often than I do.
Abbycat weāre glad youāre here, although itās a total bummer that you āqualifyā for this club. The people here are great, though, and the amount of shared experience on this community is absolutely astounding. Hang in there, and hang out here. Itāll do you all kinds of good.
Seenie
Thank you. I think it was fateās way of getting me to get scanned when I had that stroke, now I see everyone in there
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Seenie, Iām falling off the chair laughing so much!
Hey Abbycat,
I have to agree with Seenie āDonāt be blaming yourself for whatās happened.ā
Often there is no clearly identifiable reason/cause. Iāve had medicos give me the it could be āXā or it could be āYā speech. But to be honest, using their theory, it could be any other letter in the alphabet too. They really donāt know. Often they like to run through the āhealth historyā then āFamily historyā then ālifestyleā looking for that cause/effect. I bamboozled them a bit, my health history is not good, my family history is not good and my lifestyle is not good. They didnāt know which one to pick 
Personally, I think one of the problems here is that we often go to drās looking for answers and although they often donāt like admitting it, they donāt ALWAYS have the answers, they often just donāt know. Some people can go through life āgreen, clean and sereneā and still end up in the exact same place and yet others can have repeated head trauma, drink, smoke and have no ill affects at all. The reality is no one really knows why. There are some medicos who will swear itās head trauma, some will swear itās smoking, some will swear itās related to a stress levels, but NOBODY can pinpoint a cause/effect. For years I had drās telling me my symptoms were all in my head (Imaginary), little did I know just how close they were. It was all in my headā¦ ā¦just not imaginary.
Itās normal to want answers, but the reality is often there isnāt one.
Merl from the Modsupport Team
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