Aneurysms Support Group

I had a horrible headache and my neck hurt severely. I thought it was a migraine but my meds did not work and that made me feel like something else was going on. There was a moment where I felt something odd going on in my head and I remember feeling it and thinking "that's not right." That was the moment I passed out and had a seizure from the bleeding.

What I understand is you have a headache like no other. The pain is so intense that no drugs can touch it. Some people have said they actually felt the 'pop' in their heads.

If medicines that you normally take for your headaches take care of the pain, you probably are ok. It is the headache from out of the blue that can make you nauseous and knock you to the ground in intense pain. That is when you should worry.

I hope this helps.
Best,
Rosie
SAH/Coiling March 4, 2012
MS 2007

Thank you so much for your reply! It helps ease my anxiety some. I know with anxiety headaches can occur and if you are anxious about a certain health symptom your body can respond and make you think you have it.

I just keep feeling like I have some sort of pain in my head, where it feels like a bruise and some keeps mashing on it. And sometimes I can run my hand easily across my head and it's very sensitive. I guess I should probably just talk with my doctor. I don't think I really realized how many people can actually survive an aneurysm.

I have TERRIBLE anxiety over aneurysms, so I know how you feel Tiffany.

My experience was feeing the most tired I had ever been in my life. Then when the "big Headache came" it was a pressure starting at the back of my head and then felt like a bolt of lightening(no joke) was going to take the front of my head off. I screamed and woke up 30-45 minutes later with pouring sweat coming off my body. My neurosurgeon says you typically do not have headaches prior to rupture. An MRA should be able to tell you though to releave your anxiety. It is scary stuff.

Dear Tiffany,
Aneurysm's are genetically passed down. If you do not have a family member that suffered one then you will not. If you did, a MRI at your yearly pdoc apt would show it and it could be clipped before it did you any damage. It sounds like you suffer from migraines, a aneurysm puts a migrain to shame. Best of luck, Eric

Both of my grandmothers died from an anerysms back in the 60s and70s. Then I had horrible headaches that no migraine drug could touch. Next came the unexplained nausea. Finally started to have visual issues. Docs thought a MRI was next course of action. Diagnosed with anerysm on my optic vein. Unfortunately shortly after my surgery my mother passed from a brain anersym also. So yes. Heredity may play a factor. U of M wanted to do a study on my family. But they are afraid of what the results might be. Now my daughter is suffering from migraines. She's right there with you.

Dear Tiff,
Getting an MRI with an eye open to watch for aneurysms is the only preventative I know of. The difference between the damage done by a ruptured aneurysm and a clipped one is huge. I know as I survived a ruptured one. Wishing you the best. Eric

Too my knowledge no one in my family ever had an aneurysm, I had no symtoms and if it wasn't for an episode of vertigo (non related) I would have never known I had one.

One day while walking into the house I got a sharp pain in the back of my head which traveled to the front. Felt like someone had taken a steel bar and stuck it into my skull and clear through my head. Called my Neurologist, made an appt, I asked him to order a scan of my head. This didn't feel like my cluster headaches. That's how they found one of the two aneurysm's.

My grandfather died before I was born. I did not find out he had died from a ruptured aneurysm until I had one rupture with 4 others there. No Headaches prior to that DAY. Just really tired. But you cannot mistake the pain connected to a rupture. It will bring you down. I have taken my daughter for a MRA. My three brothers all got scanned, but my two sisters are stubborn, so I keep them in my prayers. But I dont think all annies are related to heredity. Smoking weakens vessels. I myself pray that one day it will become part of a yearly physical to check for them. There is such a need for education on this and getting it out there. Maybe soon.