Last posted a year ago, August 2024. There are not a lot of posts here regarding aneurysms, as opposed to the meningioma forum, where there are quite a lot of posts and lots of information from people who have had craniotomies or stereotactic radiation. So I wanted to post a positive result, which was I had my 5.5 (or 6 mm. depends on the reading radiologist) aneurysm coiled 8 months ago (after waiting a year to make my decision, no pressure by the neurosurgeon, by the way )And then I waited another 8 months to have yet another cerebral angiogram to recheck it. (Was asked to recheck in 6 months) Anyway, the repeat cerebral angiogram showed that the coils are still perfectly in place and totally occluding the aneurysm. The whole deal of it, diagnosing via cerebral angiogram through the main artery in my wrist, the 2nd cerebral angiogram to insert the coils while I was under a general, and the 3rd cerebral angiogram to check if the coils were still in place, was not the nightmare I had envisioned. I was somewhat concerned about the radiation (lots of traditional x-rays) but now the neurosurgeon said I can just have MRAs for my annual recheck. When I was first diagnosed, the neurosurgeon asked if anyone else in my family had an aneurysm. I did not know, but had heard stories from my deceased mother that her mother, my grandmother, was making the bed when all of a sudden she screamed, "my head" and fell over onto the bed and died. Death certificate from the 1930s said cerebral stroke. But it could very well have been an aneurysm that burst. So I was sitting on the fence for a year, unable to make a decision, when out of the blue, because of an Ancestry DNA test I had taken a few years back, a first cousin I had never met (her mom and my mom were estranged sisters, and the cousin and I shared the same maternal grandmother who died while making the bed) Anyway this first cousin and I were talking about family history and she mentioned her older sister had died relatively young, in her 50s. When I asked why, she responded from a burst aneurysm. I interpreted getting a phone call out of the blue from a first cousin I had never met, and sharing that information with me, as a sign from the Holy Spirit that I should go ahead with the procedure. I guess all the research on the Mayo, Cleveland Clinic, Johns Hopkin, etc. websites just wasn't enough to push me into making a decision and I needed that nudge from up above.