[PinkyMaxine]

Hello all, i am new to the forum. I came across this site while trying to find symptoms of brain aneurysms. I could only find symptoms of ruptured aneurysms and decided to sign up to see if there was anyone on here who has ever had an aneurysm and knows what the symptoms are before it ruptures.

A little back information on me, i suspect i may have an aneurysm, but hopefully i am just being overly paranoid. I have been getting migraines since 7 yrs old, extremely painful ones to the point i couldn't move or open my eyes or even stand the slightest sound. My mother is a migraine sufferer and was prescribed naproxin, she would give me her naproxin whenever i had a headache. I took it for about 12 yrs, always her prescriptions and she would just give me a bottle. Eventually i heard bad things about it and stopped taking it, i switched to advil which i don't even know if that's any better (probabaly not eh?) and i need to take 2 extra strength advil every few hours (sometimes up to 12 a day) to keep these headaches at bay. I take advil almost every day. That in itself is not really the part that concerns me. I get pain in and behind my eyes and pain in my neck. I was also telling a friend how i have problems with memory. I work in a warehouse and i will forget what side of the skid the label goes on, and i've labeled thousands of skids and do anywhere between 50-400 skids a day. I'll just randomly forget. I'll also forget how to spell words just out of nowhere. I also have bad balance and i walk crooked. My friend at work always teases me about it because i walk to one side, so when we walk together i walk into him and he has to push on me to remind me i'm walking off course. I even walk into door frames when exiting doors. I always just chalked up these weird things to having done drugs in my past, and who knows, that could be the case. I was sharing these symptoms with a friend who said it might be an aneurysm. I started googling and now i'm super paranoid. I know no one can diagnose me but a doctor, but maybe someone can shed some light on some of these symptoms i'm having.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading my long rant !

[Abbie]

Hello PinkyMaxine and WELCOME to Neurotalk!

Here are a couple of links that might be of interest to you....

Aneurysm
http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum7.html



Brain Aneurysm Resourses
http://www.brainaneurysm.com/aneurysm-symptoms.html

Unruptured Cerebral Aneurysm Symptoms

Before an aneurysm ruptures, patients often experience no symptoms of brain aneurysms. In about 40 percent of cases, people with unruptured aneurysms will experience some or all of the following cerebral aneurysm symptoms:

• Peripheral vision deficits
• Thinking or processing problems
• Speech complications
• Perceptual problems
• Sudden changes in behavior
• Loss of balance and coordination
• Decreased concentration
• Short-term memory difficulty
• Fatigue

Because the symptoms of brain aneurysms can also be associated with other medical conditions, diagnostic neuroradiology is regularly used to identify both ruptured and unruptured brain aneurysms

PinkyMaxine.... I'm not a medical professional of any kind but I highly recommend you seeing your doctor as soon as possible.

I wish you the best.

Abbie

[Vixone]

Originally Posted by PinkyMaxine

Hello all, i am new to the forum. I came across this site while trying to find symptoms of brain aneurysms. I could only find symptoms of ruptured aneurysms and decided to sign up to see if there was anyone on here who has ever had an aneurysm and knows what the symptoms are before it ruptures.

A little back information on me, i suspect i may have an aneurysm, but hopefully i am just being overly paranoid. I have been getting migraines since 7 yrs old, extremely painful ones to the point i couldn't move or open my eyes or even stand the slightest sound. My mother is a migraine sufferer and was prescribed naproxin, she would give me her naproxin whenever i had a headache. I took it for about 12 yrs, always her prescriptions and she would just give me a bottle. Eventually i heard bad things about it and stopped taking it, i switched to advil which i don't even know if that's any better (probabaly not eh?) and i need to take 2 extra strength advil every few hours (sometimes up to 12 a day) to keep these headaches at bay. I take advil almost every day. That in itself is not really the part that concerns me. I get pain in and behind my eyes and pain in my neck. I was also telling a friend how i have problems with memory. I work in a warehouse and i will forget what side of the skid the label goes on, and i've labeled thousands of skids and do anywhere between 50-400 skids a day. I'll just randomly forget. I'll also forget how to spell words just out of nowhere. I also have bad balance and i walk crooked. My friend at work always teases me about it because i walk to one side, so when we walk together i walk into him and he has to push on me to remind me i'm walking off course. I even walk into door frames when exiting doors. I always just chalked up these weird things to having done drugs in my past, and who knows, that could be the case. I was sharing these symptoms with a friend who said it might be an aneurysm. I started googling and now i'm super paranoid. I know no one can diagnose me but a doctor, but maybe someone can shed some light on some of these symptoms i'm having.

Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you for reading my long rant !

If you google "early symptoms of a brain aneurysm" and select the eHow choice when it comes up, it explained a lot of the symptoms I have been having for years, prior to finding out I actually have multiple aneurysms.
And my advice to you is you should INSIST on a CT scan without delay !! If its clear then you have lost nothing, but years of stress and worry about what "could" be causing your symptoms.
Unfortunately by the time I was finally diagnosed (after years of medical problems !) as having 5 Cerebral Aneurysms, 2 of which are large complex and in a high risk category to treat (I'm still deciding if the surgery is even worth it now), I had come to the end of my sanity, was suicidal, believed I was a hypochondriac, had lost my business, am facing financial ruin (any second now) I had to INSIST, yell and cause a scene to get an appropriate test such as CT ! I was diagnosed as depressed (yes I sure was). As Bi-polar (I had had enough and was getting angry). Having cluster Migraine, meniere's disease, olfactory hallucinations (3 years of burnt toast) and on and on it went....
I've also lost a lot of my friends over the past few years, I kept making excuses for what was unexplainable health issues and why I couldn't or didn't accept or attend invitations.
I have seen several Doctors and specialists regarding Fatigue, Vision, hearing and balance problems (I even had surgery for that) and a "multitude" of other things, such as Dizziness, Headache, Neck, arm, shoulder, leg and eye pain etc etc etc the list goes on (73 medical appointments in the past 9months) none of which found any "cause" for my symptoms, hence I believed I was crazy and a hypochondriac !
The minute I had a CT scan though, I was sent straight to emergency !
So don't make the same mistake's I did !
Get tested for the worst case scenario first ! and insist your Doctors do it regardless !
Good luck and I hope it isn't aneurysms