Thanks for this update...and it is truly warming to read High's response to you...
Wishes and prayers for you,
Pat
carol72 said:
Thanks Pat. I'm glad you got those stents. It talked with a few surgeons and interventionalists. The first group said it was a 6mm aneurysm with a small neck. They said I could either watch it and wait or get it coiled. They did not want to clip it. The second surgeon said that he was what concerned him was that it was now 7mm and was leaning toward the membrane, as they do before they rupture. He went on to say that he would clip it, and it would be gone. Then he said that he could get at it easily. I could also get it coiled if that's what I wanted to do. I am supposed to get it clipped next Tuesday morning. I was confident until I've had to wait so long to get it done.
Carol 72
pat.om@frontier.com said:Carol72...I did not have open surgery...and, so regret having had... My only suggestions...since I do not know your overall background...
My PCOM aneurysm (per records of several docs)..my aneurysm was called PCOM...and, yet it was on the internal carotid artery (ICA) at the PCOM origin... Thus...the procedural treatment hit the ICA ...AND, the ICA generally has the tortuous turns...ouch...I have an extensive stent implanted (off-record) in the lower segments of my ICA...and a smaller stent in the upper (anterior???)...segments of my ICA ...on into the middle cerebral artery (MCA)... also off record... Imaging will display the little (right word?)...marker bans (or beads)... I so regret that I did not have ability to make a decision...as I had three "leaks/ruptures" in 29 days...before a basic CT w/o contrast identified a subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH)... in the 3rd quality emergency...I saw apx 9 docs plus their team members...in those 29 days...
None of this is at all unique to me... and, I have encouraged others to really ask their docs a lot of questions to help make a reasonably proper decision...
Prayers you will get good responses from those blessed with the long-term open surgery...because that also generally prevents surgical updates due to the unfilled coil procedure, for the claimed (mind-blanking?) compaction of coil...and more angios and coils are needed to be implanted...and, on and on...
Carol...I know/recognize you were/are asking for feedback of those who have had open surgery...which excludes me...except...it is the comparison...a/w/a the newer implant of PED...(the stent version).. when you think thru and compare alternative procedures... for your decision...
Prayers for grand feedback and for your right decision for you...
Pat