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Celiac Artery Aneurysm: Anyone else with same illness?
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Yep, 11 mm, not cm, which is much larger. When I asked the vascular surgeon if he had ever done the operation, and he said "no",, but I can't find you someone here who probably has. Not risking that. If the CT in 6 months shows that it is larger, I have a connection at UT Southwestern in Dallas, & they have about 12 vascular surgeons. I won't trust any dr here in Wichita Falls for anything! Our doctors are pathetic.I do keep having pain under my bottom left ri, but the dr said that's not where the aneurysm is located. Don't even know if he knows what he's talking about.Sometimes I wish I lived in a larger city. Dallas is 3 hrs away & OK City is too.
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It would be good to find vascular surgeons who have actually performed the operation. I live in the L.A. area and have consulted a surgeon at UCLA but he has never done one. During my first visit about 4 years ago he told me to monitor it with CT scans and we could consider a coil stent or a more invasive surgery if and when it grows to 1.4cm. I haven't met with him since then but when I had a follow up CT he read the results and emailed me. He said that it wasn't growing and I should continue to monitor but he didn't believe that I would ever need repair. I haven't received any advice about things I should be doing prophetically and was never told to avoid lifting weight of any type.
Perhaps collectively we can all develop a consistent strategy of how and what to do while waiting as well as symptoms we may experience while waiting.
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Many people have that pain under the left rib I don’t understand what it is. I don’t tell doctors about it anymore because they make me feel like it is in my head.