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aneurysms: how do they work then?

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  Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  I don't really understand the science of them. Do they go away on their own, or once you've got one, is it your special friend for life?

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  Posted by sweetfeet (U3064123) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  geepers, as I understand it, an aneurysm, whilst not your fiend, more a cuckoo in the nest really, will not go away all by itself.
  
  Why, have you got one?

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  Posted by carrick-bend (U2288869) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:24 GMT, in reply to geepers (formerly I_w_L) in message 1
  
  Here's a good , bsic (I think, anyway) description of aortic ones - more or less the same principles apply wherever they are, though, of course, the different risks affects any decision about whether to havr surgery or not.
  

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  Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:27 GMT, in reply to carrick-bend in message 3
  
  thanks both. Yes, apparently I do have one, but in my spleen. I was doing very well with the 'it's very small, we don't need to do anything except keep an eye on it for now' line until I went a-googling. Will I never learn? Now I'm just a bit hung up on the 70-90% mortality if it does rupture. Not that it's going to, I realise, it's just a bit of a strange thing to think about.

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  Posted by goldilocks exits pursued by bears (U1859740) on Monday, 15th June 2009

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  Oh geepers - poor you.

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  Posted by carrick-bend (U2288869) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  Mon, 15 Jun 2009 21:54 GMT, in reply to geepers (formerly I_w_L) in message 4
  
  It was picked up that my former manager had a brain aneurysm - it wasn't risky enough to risk surgery to remove it, and, for a while, she'd have rather not have known that it was there, I think.
  
  Poor you - it must be a disconcerting thing to let your mind dwell upo, even if it'll very probably ever be a problem to you.

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  Posted by countrypug (U9227943) on Monday, 15th June 2009

  Geepers, sorry to hear this, but step away from the google bar! You know it is the best thing for you. I suspect many of us have aneurysms but know nothing about them. I would think that a spleen aneurysm is slightly less risky than a brain one, although I guess that may not make you feel better (sorry).
  
  I'm not good at taking my own advice as I tend to head straight to t'internet to research things too.....
  
  Take care.
  
  Pug x

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  Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 07:32 GMT, in reply to countrypug in message 7
  
  s'all right all, I'm not panicking myself too much, I promise. I agree with c-b's manager though that I'd probably rather not have known. Dr Vein tells me it's only the size of his little finger nail (don't chaps have big finger nails...) and he's not worried, so no point me being either. After all, he's the one paid to worry. Moral is, don't ever have a ct scan if you can help it, cos they uncover all kinds of things you really don't need to know about.

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  Posted by Morganish (U9108847) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  I recently met a young woman who'd had a head scan to investigate neuralgic pain in her face. The scan hadn't revealed anything useful - except that she had a brain aneurism. Like you, she'd been told it was nothing to worry about for the time being. She was told that at some point in the future she can have an operation which itself carries a reasonably high risk. She'd been googling too, and when I met her was in a state. Sometimes it's best not to know these things, isn't it? Even her consultant confessed that he had never had a brain scan because brain aneurisms are quite common and he didn't want to know...

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  Posted by Redbookish (U1335018) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 08:17 GMT, in reply to Morganish in message 9
  
  Well, two friends of mine have died absurdly young from undiagnosed brain aneurisms (I go to the memorial for one on Monday). I think I'd rather know.

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  Posted by mistresslucy (U9471573) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  O/H had aortic version at Christmas.
  Undiagnosed for three weeks despite spending two days in hospital with severe pain.
  Hospital said pancreatitis (similar symptoms).
  Back to hospital in Jan. again severe pain,young doctor did ultrasound,emergency ambulance to main hospital,almost didnt make it.
  But five months on picture of health.
  However even though he has had high blood pressure for twenty years+ we didnt realise that an aneurysm could be on the cards.
  He really should have been ultra sounded yearly!

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  Posted by mistresslucy (U9471573) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  Forgot to say it had ruptured and over the course of the three weeks slowly ripped from the heart to the bowel,missing the major organs inbetween.
  Luckily it was just the inner wall that ripped and the outer wall of the artery held.
  lucy

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  Posted by GuzziNut (U6364582) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  all I can add is my lovely, shift working neighbour had a brain one and survived...

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  Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 18:41 GMT, in reply to Redbookish in message 10
  
  I would rather know, Red, if it was a case of 'you've got an aneurysm we need to do X about it' but, having also had a friend struck down by one in her 30s, in a coma for days, in hospital for months and severely affected for life (but yes, thank goodness, still alive) I'm not so convinced I want to know on a 'you've got an aneurysm but we don't think we need to do anything so don't worry about it' basis. Best way for me not to worry is not to know - what do I do with the knowledge but fret? (Particularly now I've got a description of one ripping over weeks to think about too!)

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  Posted by mistresslucy (U9471573) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  geepers,I really didnt mean to stress you out by describing the aneurysm ripping over weeks.
  I was so angry that the first thing the doctor at the local hospital said was "and did you have a few pints?" even though it should have been apparent to any doctor that it was an aneurysm.
  I would imagine that at any other hospital in the world it would have been picked up straight away.
  Glory be to the Irish Health Service and the second rate doctors they employ in country hospitals!
  Lucy (STILL very cross!)

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  Posted by geepers (U6804393) on Tuesday, 16th June 2009

  Tue, 16 Jun 2009 19:10 GMT, in reply to mistresslucy in message 15
  
  no worries - when my friend had hers and got to casualty (after two days out cold on the floor) the triage nurse attending her refused to entertain any possibility other than an overdose despite the repeated assurance from her sister that that wasn't what had happened. We are all very grateful for the doctor who came along who thought listening to the relatives was a good idea.

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