Hi Everyone,

I'm new here and hoping that I can get some opinions from any of you that have had an unruptured aneurysm.

My mom is 52 yrs old and just found out she has an aneurysm. It is in her anterior communicating artery and is between a 6 and 7. She saw Dr. Barrows at Emory Hospital in Atlanta and he wants to do surgery because he said it will definitely burst in her lifetime. She is having an angiogram done today to get more info on it, but he has said that depending on what they find, it will be up to her to decide what to do with it - clip it or use a coil.

She is leaning towards having them go in and clip it because there is less risk of having another aneurysm come up on the side like in coiling. There is more risk up front, but she's thinking she would rather have it because it's more of a sure thing. The coil is much less risky, since they aren't opening her brain up, but she doesn't want to have to worry that there's going to be a problem with it further down the road and then just have to have the clipping anyway.

She asked me to find a forum to post on to get opinions of others who have gone through this. Did you have one and now regret not having the other instead?

Any opinions on this would be greatly appreciated!

Thanks!