Welcome to our group! I do all my proper welcomes on Sundays so expect to be welcomed again with the bit you shared on your application. I don’t know you but I’m proud of your decision to become clean and sober! Excellent choice in my opinion. It’s not easy to admit to people you don’t know and I do applaud your honesty and strength. I am definitely biased and I think joining our group is also an excellent choice!
I am one of the moderators here so I need to give a friendly reminder. I know it’s really important in a 12 step program to acknowledge a higher power, heck it’s important for a lot of folks that haven’t an issue with addiction. In our group, we cover the globe, literally. And as such, have many members who have different belief systems, please remember that as we don’t want to disrespect anyone here. It’s ok to keep it personal, but not telling someone else how to believe is our rule. We do have a Prayers needed under Support tab and those who do pray will either ask for prayer or come on and support you offering their own prayers. Ok moderating done, now back to being a member.
Sounds like you came across a wonderful PCP that cares! This is a great step as many times our PCPs will end up with the responsibility of doing all the seemingly little, but very important things in our meandering through the world of aneurysms, especially if you’re in a rural or semi rural area like Columbiana which a neurosurgeon has no experience with being at UAB. It’s the biggest medical school I know of because our house does say Roll Tide😂. Columbiana is where BH’s parents and grandparents did their funeral arrangements but they lived in Siluria in Shelby County. Yes they did work at the cotton mill for a long time. Granny had a horribly headache, went home from work. The village doc was so concerned as this was out of her norm, he made a house call. This was back in the early ‘60’s and she had brain surgery at Shelby hospital, came home with a metal plate in the front of her skull. We often wonder if she had a ruptured aneurysm.
There are many aneurysms that just stay on the W&W list, they never grow or cause any problems. Many, if not most neurosurgeons tell us the headaches which led to imaging are not caused by the aneurysm but we have many members who’d disagree because of their experiences. Then there are members who have had their aneurysm occluded and have different types of headaches and they’ll be told it has nothing to do with what the surgeon did. The next group, the one I’m in, is the ruptured one and we can be a bit different if our headaches are in a specific place following the repair. Otherwise, we too, are told it has nothing to do with what they did or our aneurysm.
There are a plethora of reasons for headaches that have nothing to do with aneurysms interestingly enough. My Neurosurgeon has a mantra of sorts when it comes to headaches hydrate, rest, hydrate some more, eat protein. It comes from her questions she’ll even ask her husband when he has headaches “What have you eaten today? What have you drank? Did you get any rest?” I share this a lot and highly recommend the hydration and protein as a first step. So the next time you start feeling a headache coming on, drink a glass of water or two, eat or drink some protein and rest if you’re able. It may not completely stop your headache but it might, and it may very well be that it reduces it so much you don’t think about it.
Remember to breathe! @FinWhaleFan has posted different types of relaxation breathing methods, just search for @FinWhaleFan in the search box and you’ll find the posts made. Are you going to be referred to a specialist or is your PCP going to order a new scan and then a specialist? Please keep us posted and thank you so much for joining!
