One of the hardest things I had to deal with following my rupture were huge mood swings, sleep and weight gain.
Many of the changes following a traumatic brain injury (such as an aneurysm rupture, or a craniotomy) are caused by damage to your pituitary gland. Blood spilling into your brain can kill or damage your pituitary gland. Your pituitary gland is your master gland. It regulates your sleep, your body temperature regulation, your weight, your stress levels, how much you sweat, your blood pressure, your sexual needs and general sexual health, how fast you heal, and many, many aspects of your other bodily functions. I have noticed that many postings are about these subjects. Harvard University and Massachusetts General Hospital published the following study: http://pituitary.mgh.harvard.edu/NCBV11I2.htm
Please print out this article and speak with your doctor about testing your pituitary regulated hormones, and ask to be referred to a neuroendrocrinologist (usually at larger teaching hospitals). Low levels of these hormones can be life threatening.
Following a rupture or a craniotomy, please have the following hormones tested:
serum free T4,
TSH,
AM cortisol,
prolactin,
IGF-1,
Vitamin D (this is actually a prohormone, not a vitamin)
testosterone (in men and women)
FSH (in postmenopausal and/or premenopausal women with amenorrhea
Good Luck!
JulieNH