My story… Hello everyone, my name is Paige. I am 24years old and I had a ruptured brain aneurysm in October of 2011. I can remember that night like it was yesterday. It was 11pm and I was getting ready for bed. I passed out for a few minutes. I was told that I had a stroke that lead to a seizure. When I came to I had pain up and down my spin and in my head. A few minutes later I began vomiting. My boyfriend drive me to the hospital where they did a CTscan and found the bleeding. I was flown to Jefferson hospital where they did the surgery and put 3 coils in. After leaving the hospital t was really hard for me o do anything. The amount of pain I was in and having to come to terms with my boyfriend dressing and bathing me was really hard. Before my aneurysm I was a mail carrier. After I was forced to resign. I became stronger and started doing things on my own that I couldn’t before. For the pain, anxiety, and depression, I am on a dozen different medications including seizure medications to pain killers when nothing else seems to work. In March 2012 I went back to Jefferson for my first angiogram. It turned out that my aneurysm doubled in size and they had to do a re-coiling. So after receiving 3 more coils and another hospital stay, the seal they put on my main artery popped and I began to bleed internally which led to nerve damage I my left leg. After the second coiling I found that my pain was getting worse. I was in the hospital 4 to 5 times a month because of the severity of the pain. Many times I thought I was going to die. In the past four months I’ve been thru three different jobs. Now I’m unemployed and really don’t do much. The small jobs, like being a casher, made me feel like I was normal… And ave me reason go leave the house. It’s hard to keep a job when your always in pain and sometimes it’s so bad you can’t do anything. I ave all the symptoms… Dizzy, blurry vision, vomiting, always tired, pain, pain, pain, and anything else. Medications, I feel, only increase the symptoms but take away the physical an mental pain that comes with it. In September I go for anther angiogram and I am scared. I’ve decided that if it grows more I’m going to get it clipped. I have my hole life ahead if me and I want to live it.
I’m so sorry your going through a extremely hard time… There is nothing easy about a ruptured or unruptured aneurysm… You really have had some difficulties with the procedures. I’ll keep you in my prayers… Best of luck Paige and think positively…Tansy
Since my Welcome earlier Paige...I have also thought...you need to look at some of your medications you are taking...often they can cause bad headaches, depression, anxiety, etc.,
I am so sorry for your ongoing struggle. I would second that idea of checking through the side effects of your various meds. I wonder too if there are other options for medical provider. Perhaps another surgeon would be able to provide you some relief? So hard to sort these thing through!