I'm sorry to hear about BT, I registered a while back and got banned before I could post. It was a discouraging experience......glad to hear you all are taking care of yourselves.

I have a question - I read your post on the other thread about your annie being 4mm. mine is small 2.3 by 1.6 with a wide neck of 2.3. originally, they said it was 3 mm. I keep reading that docs don't know what the annies look like until they go in so they can't tell how thin the walls are. I feel that I am symptomatic. Even with an annie this small should I be seeking a second opinion? In your experience have you heard of others with annies this small rupturing?

Sincerely,
Crwstar

Sorry it's been so long,I don't come to any of these sites to much anymore. You got banned from BT? What did you do? LOL!! They are very touchy over there,a bunch of teenage monitors.
To answer your question...I don't think these doctors have a clue as to how small an annie can be to rupture. It's all about the artery ....mine was thin because the artery was hard. Yes I have heard of small annies going,my would have rupture at any time. And I was symptomatic for 8 months with slurring,numbing of my legs and right arm. I would get a second opinon and have these checked offen...they can change in a blink from small to ready to burst. You are the only one that knows what you are feeling...if you feel better having these taken care of find a doctor who will listen and have the surgery.Best of luck....take care of yourself.

ooxx
mimi

Sorry I haven't been around for a while, but like you said originally, sad to say there isn't much chatter on this forum.

Couple of things on the threads from you caught my eye. First of all, it sounds like yours behind your eye is close to where two of mine were, which should make them close to the third nerve. Third nerve problems most times show primary signs in the right or left eye, blurred or lost vision, drooping eye, "lazy"eye characterisitics. My annies were huge and actually split the nerve, so of course my symptoms in the end were terrible, but yours sound alot like my early ones.

I also had the nausea (in the end I threw up more than I ate), dizziness, vertigo. And headaches. They started out like regular headaches, but in the end... felt like I had been hit in the head with a bat or something. On a 0-10; they were a 25! I also had the stiff and painful neck. I thought it originally was from an old car accident I had in 2000, but in the end...nope.

I didn't have a lot of mental or verbal issues before the surgery, and still am pretty much OK verbally. Though, I have trouble with some longer words, and once in a blue moon substitute the wrong word. (I kept telling people for the first 3 months that I had had 3 euphenisms...LOLL). I do though understand the whole, "oops, gotta go 'cause I forgot what I was going to say" thing. I have had emails or even grocery lists that have taken me whole days to complete because I keep forgetting what I was thinking. I also have to make lists for next days, cause once I go to sleep... bye-bye whatever it was I was thinking. I have made an appointment with a Neuropschologist, but other than him telling me that yep I am this way, not sure what it is going to do for me. But I still am hopeful. I have been a Technical/Business Consultant for many years and returning is not looking very hopeful to me fight now; so will grasp at any straw.

Now, I do have to say that mine were REALLY bad! I had an 18mm & 7mm behind my right eye; and a 14mm behind my right ear. As to your question about them rupturing or growing? Like I said, my situation was pretty special, but on January 16th the big one behind my eye was 15mm and the morning of the 18th, right before surgery, it was measured at 18mm.

They still are not sure why mine happened. Could have been head trauma from an accident 2 years before or I could have just had a bad case of aneurysms. So in some ways I do understand your worrying. Since they can't tell me why, they also can't say they won't come back out of the blue. And believe or not, insurance companies don't like to pay for MRA's just for me to have a peace of mind

You have to let me know how things are turning out for you. I have no one that has had, or even knows anyone who ever had, aneurysms, so I am sort of alone with this. And now that my incision is healed on the outside and I can hide it wiht my hair, everyone has just gone back to normal. Except when they smile and say "it's OK your forgetting, you have brain damage...but at least your still alive"...

Well, I got a whole lot more chatty than I expected. Probably because it is 5:00 am and I can't sleep.

Great Day To You's... D

Thanks so much for responding - I'm a little out of commission at the moment but wanted to let you know I will respond in a few days.