How to live normal life wit 5mm brain aneurysm

Posted by adamaustralia @adamaustralia, Aug 17, 2024

Hi. In recent ct scan, just learnt I have 5 mm brain aneurysm. Actually while dealing with eye floaters I had a brain mri 5 years ago, there was nothing wrong.
I am 64 old Australian man.
Waiting for further check in the hospital with specialist. The probabilities showing that I may have “coiling treatment” in the near future.
I have some questions in my mind:

1-Learning about this aneurysm is just like living with ticking bomb in the brain, how to be back to normal again?

2-i was always careful for my health and living healthy lifestyle such as no smoking and eating pure healthy diet and exercise. How did this happen?

3-in the web;
Stress, surprise, heavy lifting, even harsh cleaning the nose, leak of sleep, and all similar behaviours are dangerous and may trigger the bleeding.

4-if bleeding occurs and I rush to hospital, how are they going to fix this? Will they immediately open the skull and operate?

5-I have a boating hobby for instance or healthy sauna visits. Should I quit or make them lighter?

6-As far as I learned, the coiling procedure may be dangerous and cause bleeding or stroke. Don’t know what to decide.

7-Does this condition cause some minor headaches (having 5mm aneurysm) or some other consequences?

8-At home I fell down backwards and my head hit a school bag not too hard ground. And then I was advised for ct scan. No bleeding and no fractures but found this aneurysm.
The fall caused some back and neck pains and even head pains. Now, after one week past, I can’t figure out some of leftover light headaches are coming from the fall or aneurysm…

Any alp would be appreciated.
Regards

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Nanniesue4 | @nanniesue4 | Sep 23 12:30am

I was also told of an aneurism but said it was nothing to worry about. Then after a year or so I figured it out by chance it was in my carotid artery's and if it does go I will not know it. It was found by accident also. And I fell backward and hit my head. A neuro surgeon and 2 ortho surgeons say I am fine. But have balance problems neck pain shoulder wrist and finger pain. But there is nothing wrong with me. Physical therapy for 2 months they finally decided it was thoracic outlet syndrome. But they cannot fix it. Now my shoulders are becoming numb and legs are numb. I have exhausted all my help. I hope you find the answers to all your questions and get back to normal.

laura1970 | @laura1970 | Sep 23 5:17pm

I retired from the healthcare field. My advice is to get the best estimates you can on success rates, complication rates, etc (google scholar and NIH websites are a good starting point, than ask your surgeon what his/her success rate is, complication, death rates are. Also ask how many they have done in their lifetime and in the past year. Also how many does the hospital do each month or year. The ancillary practitioners are quite important.

Although coiling procedures are quite common, I would still recommend a university hospital or large regional hospital. That’s just me tho