Mine is 4.1 right now as it was just discovered a few weeks ago but I also don’t want to wait until it gets all the way to five or 5.5. I understand they won’t do anything now, but I’m being rechecked in six months and if it shows it’s growing, I’d rather get it taken care of sooner than later when the survival chances are better. This whole thing is totally freaking me out. Now every time my back hurts I am afraid it’s a potential dissection. This is really messing with my life. Like so many people post on here I too tried to live a healthy lifestyle, exercise regularly, so I don’t have any idea where this came from but here I am. I’m so grateful for this group .

The decision about when to have surgery depends on several factors, of course the size but also the body size, growth rate, family history, your general phsysical fitness, etc. they discovered mine while getting leg fracture surgery from an MTB accident, I was 54 (I'm 59 now) and the aneurysm was 5.2 , I had the surgery 3 months after leg surgery (they want you walking right after so I had to wait until I could walk with my broken leg, otherwise I would have had it immediately). The surgeon recommended to have the surgery as soon as I was able.