# Familial aneurysms
**URL:** https://www.bafsupport.org/t/familial-aneurysms/2821
**Category:** personal-stories
**Created:** [October 23, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/familial-aneurysms/2821 "2013-10-23T19:43:05Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author:  [@min1959](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/min1959)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 7:43pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/familial-aneurysms/2821/1 "2013-10-23T19:43:05Z")
Because of my strong family history ( mother & sister)I've googled myself stupid in an attempt to find out as much as I can about this. There is a theory of 'anticipation' with familial aneurysm that suggests the second generation will suffer a rupture at a significantly earlier age than the first. I'ld like to hear your experiences of this.
Mandy
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### Author:  [@fireflower1974](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/fireflower1974)
#### Post date: [October 23, 2013, 8:40pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/familial-aneurysms/2821/2 "2013-10-23T20:40:07Z")
Mandy
My grandmother suffered a rupture in her 40's. My primary care doc did not feel it was necessary to check me 5 years ago when I had asked and expressed my concerns to him. Well, 1 month ago today I had 1 of my 2 aneuryms coiled. Thankfully I had an MRI due to some other symtoms that were unrelated to my aneuryms and the neurologist I saw asked questions and besides the MRI made the decision to do an MRA as well and that is when I found out that I had 2 aneurysms. I am very thankful for this doctor listening to me and thinking preventative. I am not upset with my primary doc as his reasoning was that 99.9% of insurance companies would not pay for the MRA to "check" to see if I had an anuerysm solely based on my grandmother having one. If you can't get the first doc to order one find one that will! good luck!
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### Author:  [@patioplans](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/patioplans)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2013, 3:12pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/familial-aneurysms/2821/3 "2013-10-25T15:12:00Z")
A personal friend lost her dad...decades earlier of genetics data...Seven years ago, she lost a son, at 52, to it..._after_ the genetics study...she/family were not advised of the study results...Five years ago, she had a rupture...A friend of hers who had visited me at a reunion, called me for referral data for her children who were in-flight to her...the referral data was the websites etc etc...
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### Author:  [@patioplans](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/patioplans)
#### Post date: [October 25, 2013, 3:26pm UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/familial-aneurysms/2821/4 "2013-10-25T15:26:04Z")
Mandy...it is wonderful to know your early treatment...
My curiosity...what is the status of the symptoms that generated the MRI/A now that your aneurysms have been treated?
Thanks...we so often read/hear about the symptoms that result in finding an aneurysm...
Pat
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### Author:  [@system](https://www.bafsupport.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [October 26, 2013, 8:33am UTC](https://www.bafsupport.org/t/familial-aneurysms/2821/5 "2013-10-26T08:33:44Z")
Hi, my Great grand dad died fairly young due to what sounds like a ruptured aneurysm, and a great uncle passed away in his late 40's or early 50's from a ruptured aneurysm...I was 36 when I discovered my first annie and had it clipped...44 when another ruptured.
Peace, Janet