Thank you so much. In yesterday out today.
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Hi Darly in yesterday morning out at middayish as I had to get my medication. Hope recovery goes well for you
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Thank you so much. Im on 2 blood thinners for 6 months and the other for 18 months.
Follow up MRI in 6 months, then following that a year and a half for up to 5 to 7 years
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I’m so glad you’re out and into recovery, @jojo29! I hope you feel better every day forward.
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Hi @jojo29
Thanks for letting us know you are doing well!
You must be so happy to be home again, where rest comes so much easier than in a hospital. The next six months will fly by, and you will be off some of those blood thinners very soon.
Stay well.
Fin Whale Fan 
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So happy @jojo29 that your procedure went well and it was just an overnight stay! Good for you and your surgeon! Don’t forget now is the time to focus on my Neurosurgeon’s mantra, hydrate, rest, eat protein, hydrate some more, repeat. Our brains are both a protein and hydration hog, feed accordingly. Check with your Neuro team on how much of each you need.
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Thanks @darlysaar
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Thanks @FinWhaleFan
I am very happy to be home, it did take approx 1.5 weeks to come right, appetite, headache, groggy feeling from anaesthetic, but I do feel better. Have had random things happen, i.e. SOB, light bleeding, lengthy headaches (duration) and small clots from nose bleeds. Monitoring and on meds (aspirin 2yrs, and ticagrelor 6 months), repeat MRI in 6 months, then again in 1.5 years if all is well.
I hope you are well too.
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Thanks @Moltroub
I haven’t spoken again to Neuro since I’ve been out, but have been advised to use paracetamol when required during the day if I have a headache, and ibuprofen at night only if needed. I cannot use ibuprofen long term being on current blood thinners.
Eating, took until about Tues following week from procedure to become somewhat normal
I still have had random concerns i.e. SOB, light bleeding, lengthy headaches (duration) and small clots from nose bleeds.
I will be seen again in 6 months time for an MRI and stop ticagrelor, and if all is fine will continue aspirin then another MRI 1.5 years.
Hope all is well on your end.
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Thank you, all is good, brain went wonky again so just have to repeat the 2 days on 2 days off 2 days on of lorazepam. It’s probably our truck’s fault since I decided I wanted to give it a good clean up. BH is taking her to Tennessee, we don’t drive it enough. I need a ladder to get up in the bed. I was using a pressure washer so lots of ups and downs to avoid burning out the pump. Obviously it can’t be mine, right? 
. Next time I’ll stick to a hose pipe. (garden hose)
Did you have something other than coils put in? The reason I ask is I didn’t have to take aspirin until she installed my stent.
Hi @jojo29
Sounds like you are doing very well, and I am so pleased to get this update. You made my day!
FWIW, I also experienced nosebleeds after my pipeline, which was likely aggravated because it was fall/winter (i.e., our dry time of year, not like our humid, sticky days of summer, like today!) After one really bad one, I learned that saline sprays can be really helpful in preventing, and I became a fan (anecdotally, fewer and less severe). E.g., see:
https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/13464-nosebleed-epistaxis
Just jumping in, for me, I too didn’t have to start taking aspirin (baby aspirin, 81 mg) until two weeks before my stent, but I am on it for life. Just so interesting to see these differebces playing out in our lives … that fascinates me!
@Moltroub, so glad you are going to take rest and it easy today!! Doctors’ orders …or we will call your doctor and tell her to order it! 
Have a beautiful day!
Fin Whale Fan
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Thank you for your message. I’m sorry to hear that things have been a bit tough, but hopefully the medication is helping soothe any pain/or concerns that you have, or are still experiencing. And lol@ your garden hose comment. I do hope things get better soon.
Well apparently, I never had coils placed as the neck wasn’t wide enough to warrant them, and plus the FTP (Stent) apparently had good blood flow by stent only, so following my MRI if everything is fine in 6 months, I’ll come off ticagrelor and stay on aspirin for 1.5 years, and then another MRI. Surgeon did advise that if it’s required may possibly need a 2nd stent, but that will be determined on the scan in 6 months. So we shall see.
Thanks again for your message, and it always makes my day reading messages from my BASC family group 
Yes mine are not major nosebleeds but enough for me to notice on occasions small clots. Thank you for the link. I will take a look at work at the moment of my second dayshift. I believe you might be onto something with dry winters, I also feel dust etc can set it off sometimes too, including my shortness of breath if I work around dust, especially my cats loose fur (ewww).
I was put on baby aspirin for 2 years, and ticagrelor 6 months for the clotting/stroke prevention. And mentions what they decided for my procedure and why in my earlier message to Moltroub.
Have an amazing day
Jojo
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I’m glad to hear things are going well @jojo29 
Thank you so much for your message, hope you are well.
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I’m doing well - I had my two year diagnostic cranial angiogram last month and it looked very good so my neurosurgeon said we can give my body a break and I don’t have to go back until July 2027. 
I hope all the little side effects settle down for you, or at least get to where you have a good routine to manage them.
And I hope your 6 month MRI looks perfect! 
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Thank you so much for your message again. Glad to hear you get that break. For me the side effects, well most of them have settled, I still get the random every now and again, I think the most irritating is the itch I get after bruises start the healing process.
I’m hoping the 6 months goes quickly and that I have a good result from the MRI
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Thanks so much! Mr C and I fixed my little tractor yesterday. He said next time it happens he’ll show me how to take the rear wheel off:rofl: He did mention I needed a big fan. I told him I have one in the lean to so we laughed and kept working. Guess I should have gone and got it. I thought it was in the tractor shed, so I got confused. He moved all my nuts and bolts I lined up for how I was removing them so I got lost. We ended up getting it fixed with only one sorta important part missing but like he says “It’s all good”. I told him I was just lost and confused:zany_face: He’s a good man and friend. Keeps me focused, at least he tries. It was quite hilarious my anal self had lined bolts and nuts in a very specific order - closest ones were on top of insulation packs, farthest ones on bottom pack both front to back. He moved them 3 times before we needed them, he asked for a specific one and looking him square in the eyes I said “ Mr C you need to ask God because if you don’t know where you put it, He’s the only one in this tractor shed who could figure it out”. Mr C has a pHD in theology and I live to tease him, love it too!
Thanks for explaining the stent with no coils. I believe I’m failing at keeping my rambling under check. I’m going to go clean some old antique tools. Y’all have a great Saturday 3 people have told me we’re under another heat advisory remember to hydrate or Mr C may text you next - he just bumped my number to 4
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Oh sounds like my dad, I get him new tools or bits and bobs to add to his tool shed which needs walls put up and new floorboards lol, and not too many days following, “where is this?” “where is that?” “what did you do with…” lol So I know what you mean, but my semi short temper needs adjustments to it so I don’t get flustered and snap at my poor dad.
Glad to hear that things are super busy for you though, and you are still trying to get around doing what would be typically a normal activity/day.
I don’t have an issue with the heat, I absolutely love winter here in NZ, and you are most welcome. We shall see what they have in store for me come the 6 month mark.
Take care of those of you currently in Summer
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So I see some Dad time needed! You’d have to help him clear out the tool shed and put down the new floor and up goes the new walls.when you’re taking out the old tools put like with like and box them with what’s in it. It’s what I really need to do. Not the walls and floor but getting like things together. BH hired a couple guys from work to help me, the one guy said to draw out a plan of where I wanted stuff. I did and he ignored it. They also put heavy things up on top of some heavy shelving that I can’t reach without a ladder, guess who’s not allowed on one?. When we were kids, Dad used pegboard and drew around the tool with a magic marker, no sharpies back then. That way we knew which tool went where. He also took a handheld label maker and marked every drawer of most every tool box on what went in there. That might help your dad…I’ve gone to french cleats so I can move upper cases around to where I think I want them. Dad and I got a lot of really well built ones made by Ethan Allen cheaper than I could build them at the local Christian Co-Op store. Wish I’d have gone back and bought more. I’ll be learning to build base cabinets to my height as soon as Mr.C can wire in the table saw. I’m rambling again! Have a great day and hug your Dad, I sure miss mine.