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I had my SAH on August 17th this year. It was coiled the next day at the Walton Centre in Merseyside. I have a smaller aneurysm... read more

I am British but live in Spain. I collapsed last New Years Eve at the foot of the apartment stairs. Some kind stranger... read more

Oct. 23, 2009 was a Pro-Development day so I had the day off of work as my job as a teacher's assistant. I had been awake... read more

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My husband suffered a ruptured aneurysm (SAH) on 14 June 2011. He was immediately transferred... read more

I had my SAH on May 19th this year. I got up around 9am feeling fine. Around 1015 I went to the bathroom to wash, next thing I knew, BAM! I felt like my head was exploding. I screamed with the pain and my son came to see what was wrong. He helped me to my room where I fell onto the bed screaming and holding my head. I couldn't open my eyes and my neck was painful. My son called an ambulance and when they arrived the paramedic told me I was having a panic attack and to calm down. By this time I was curled up on my bed sobbing with the pain, semi conscious. The paramedic asked me if I could walk to the ambulance and when I moaned "No", he told me "Well, either you walk or stay here; Ive got a bad back." My son and a neighbour had to carry me to the ambulance.

On arrival at the hospital at 10.55am, I was seen by a junior doctor who diagnosed a bad headache and gave me paracetemol. He didn't examine me except for taking my blood pressure. My daughter told him that I had lost both my parents, a brother and a sister to brain haemmorage and he told them this was irrelevent and didnt even put it in my notes. By this time I was shaking violently and vomiting, unable to move my limbs, couldnt open my eyes, was semi-conscious and my speach was slurred.

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I thought I would tell you my story after reading some of the others.

It all started on Sunday 15 May this year. I had got up around 6 a.m. I am not a great sleeper so this was nothing unusual. I read for about an hour and then decided I would go to the shop for the Sunday papers and then planned to start some painting as we were in the middle of some major decorating. I looked at the clock and it was 7 a.m. I then felt the most incredible pain at the back of my head, it was like an explosion and I remember thinking to myself "oh my god what's that" I stumbled accross the lounge and staggered up the stairs to get my partner. I literally fell onto the bed, all I kept saying was "my head, my head".

My partner woke up and still groggy said I must have a migraine. I felt violently sick and got up of the bed and dragged myself into the bathroom but the pain in my neck was so intense that I couldn't lean over the toilet. In the meantime my partner had brought up some paracetamol and water but I didn't take them. My speech was slurred and I think he realised this was something serious. He got me out to the car and my legs felt numb but along with the pain and nausea the light was burning my eyes and I spent the 15 min car journey with my hands over my eyes still mumbling about wanting to be sick.

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Well I went surfing on a bank holiday in May 2009 to then come round 1 month later in hospital. I had a SAH in the water where, according to a family on a cliff top who phoned 999, I floated face down for about 12 minutes and then an off duty doctor happened to to jogging along the beach and saw me and dragged me out, gave me CPR and then the air ambulance picked me up.

According to the family the initial prognosis was really bad with death being the most likely outcome, although a chance I might survive but be in a permanent vegetative state.

After a few weeks in an induced coma they clipped the aneurysm and then I came around. I was cognitively OK all things considered, memory OK, and physically weak but operational. So I was thinking great lets just get back to life.

Within a week I was out of hospital and surfing and playing tennis again and back at work 10 weeks later. So why 2 years on do I feel as though I am a completely different animal to everyone else around me. Why does the world just not make sense to me like it used to. I have various physical issues in terms of back and shoulder pain that may be linked to the SAH (any thoughts on this massively appreciated) but otherwise my life is essentially the same. I have a job I think I like (I used to love it pre SAH but now nothing is that clear), lots of sports and a good quality of life but nothing is the same anymore.

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Nearly three years on and its about time I told my story! So here it is:
　
I got up on June 5th 2008 and was making a cup of tea as I always did at 6.30am when suddenly I had this incredible headache and started to feel very strange, I stumbled upstairs with the tea and collapsed on the bed saying to my husband, you’ll have to do something! Think you need to call a doctor! My head hurts badly!

My husband said I’ll get a shower, will you be alright! Think he realised there was something wrong!, then he called 999 and explained to them they need to come. Meanwhile I was trying to access my phone to try and call a colleague that I was meant to be picking up from the station at 7.30am but with your brain going into melt down it was nearly impossible, my husband took the phone away from me as I drifted in and out of consciousness.

The next thing I knew was the paramedics coming in the bedroom, asking me questions, what was my name, could I squeeze his hand?… I remember them carrying me downstairs in a chair but after that nothing.... read more