I believe everyone in this group was shocked to learn they had an aneurysm. I know I was. The word alone is enough to raise the BP, and mine went very high for about a week. That was scary. I'm 78, so I'm probably not as panicked as you are at 45. But at least you know now and can be monitored and fixed when the time comes. I'll have to decide whether to have major surgery or not, depending on how old I am by the time I need it. I'm 4.2 with a leaky value for now. My hope is to make it to 85 in one piece. After that, all bets are off.