barevalo4: I understand the stress you are feeling; I've been there. I turned the 6 month "watch-and-wait" approach into 8 months. I just needed time to wrap my head around it all. When my neurosurgeon at UCSF offered me the watch-and-wait (active surveillance) protocol he did have one suggestion he wanted me to adhere to, that being not to do things where my head would be upside down. That causes pressure inside your skull and puts pressure on the aneurysm.