Hi all,
I’ll be having my unruptured Acom artery aneurysm coiled two weeks today. I was just wondering, how much time did everyone take off work after coiling? I’m a building surveyor, so a mix of computer based work and site visits.
Thank you 
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I think its tough for people to reply to this. We’re all unique. I didn’t have coiling, I had flow diversion. However, both are endovascular procedures. My first one had some unforeseen issues so the recovery was more than expected so I won’t elaborate. I have had two since and they were pretty easy. For those I had a lot of headaches and was VERY tired for a while, but I work from home and was able to communicate with others to help keep things going. But that’s much different than reporting to work. Some come through and feel fine after a few days. I would say allow a week. If you’re able to be flexible for another week, you could consider alerting your employer that you may or may not need it, but can they give you that leeway? I hope some others will chime in. I would not call it a difficult recovery, but I was exhausted week one, better week two but still not myself. After that, I was good to go.
Warning, I’m a big baby. I hope you feel great, but get some bonus time to be off and enjoy it too 
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To Dani224. Roughly six months after your endovascular procedure, you will have a sit down with your doc to evlauate your coils’ occlusion status. During those six months, your doc may ask you to take a blood thiner and/or baby aspirin (mine did). The operative word that my doc told me to avoid during those six months was STRAIN. What I did didn’t concern him as much as HOW I did what I did. Be as strain-free as I can be during the first six months. The goal being full occlusion of the coils by the end of that period. My blood thinner regimen was also completed by then.
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