Hi to all,

I experienced a ruptured right internal carotid artery on August 7, 2008. Since I had not had migraines since my early 20's, I thought they had come back with a vengence and did not seek medical help until the 9th. The neurosurgeon told my family i should be dead. But guess what, I'm not. After 2 weeks in Neuro/Trauma ICU and another 2 weeks on the Neuro unit, I walked out (with a walker and support from fiance) and got married a week later as planned. I must admit I do not remember much about my wedding, which is sad, but I do have what I call "movie previews" that come to me every now and then. I continue to experience daily neuropathic headaches that range from "nagging" to full blown severe migraines with neuropathy. I also continue to experience short term memory loss, cognitive problems, now mild expressive aphasia and vision problems that are still uncorrective due to vision flucuations.

In Sept of 2007 my then 35 yo nephew also experienced a ruptured aneurism....I also have an aunt that died with a "mother-daughter" aneurism in 2000. Makes heridity seem realistic.

Hi & Welcome! Although I am not the official welcomers, I'm always hangin around & wanted to say hello. You will find so much help here. You came to the right place. I'm pretty new here myself & this place has been of tremendous help! Good luck & GOD Bless.

Hello and Welcome to Neurotalk, Crazynurse!! It is great to meet you, although I am sorry you have to be here! Everyone is so nice and frienly so i'm sure they will be more than happy to help you and answer any questions you may have if they can!!

I am SO sorry to hear about everything that you have been through but I can't tell you how glad I am to hear that you are still here with us and your friends and family ... what a blessing!!!

Here is the link to the Headache and Migraine Forum that you might find useful - everyone there is really nice and friendly so i'm sure you will fit right in!! :

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum32.html

If you need anything, please don't hesitate to ask!! I am more than happy to help you in anyway I possibly can and i'm sure many others will be able!!

Take care of yourself and I look forward to seeing you around the forum more real soon!! Sending many gentle hugs your way!!

Alison.

Hi crazynurse, and welcome to NeuroTalk! You will find a lot of friendly and helpful people here.

Below is a link to the Aneurysm forum, if you haven't seen it already.

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

welcome to neurotalk ... there are lots of friendly and supportive people here so jump right in and start posting ... should you need help, don't hesitate to ask someone ... we are here to help ... again

God bless you! It is incredible that you had rupture (?) of an artery and only days later went to the ICU. It is great that you walked out 'on your own' with the help of your fiance. Belated good wishes on your wedding, even if it is all kind of enveloped in a 'fog'. Well, I did not have that problem and yet mine too was kind of enveloped in a 'fog'... It just seemed to me that there was something 'surreal' about the whole ceremony, as if there were 2 of me! ...

All levity aside, I am very sorry that you had that scary incident in your life. I am no authority on headaches but severe headaches are a hardship. I hope you find help in these many pages.

Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Great to see you have come to be with us. Just let us know if we can be of any help. We are all here to assist each other as possible.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around.

Darlene