Hi everyone. My mother had a brain aneurysm. Her brother, my uncle, has an aortic aneurysm.

I woke up with a strange headache today which comes and goes but it's in a specific place. It hurts and then disappears, then hurts, then disappears, etc. I remember my mother saying her symptoms were having "the worst headache of my life." While this is certainly not the worst headache of my life, and nothing compared to the migraines I used to get, it is a very unusual headache. I have been wondering all day about aneurysms and whether they are hereditary.

From googling the subject, it seems it might be that they run in my mom's family since both she and her brother had/have them, albeit brain vs aorta.

Have any of you had experience with multiple family members having aneurysms or have knowledge from your doctors about them being hereditary? I don't think I have one, but this headache has made me start wondering about the subject since 2 children in one family seems rather rare.

Thanks, and I wish you all well.