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Hi all. I am new in the group and am thrilled to get my tribe....I have had a haemorrhage in 2002 and had a coil inserted. Since then, I only went for an annual check up and changed lifestyle. I check what I eat and keep my blood pressure under control. I do have headaches at some time but they are minimal. I have actually woken up to reality and see things for what they really are. This experience increased my empathy and humility. Wish to know how others cope.....

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Your experience is pretty much what I do. I lost having empathy. I take an anti depressant which has lifted my negativity and mood. I still would have preferred to not have survived but hey ho! god's will and all that!

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Madiepetsana in reply tomagdolna

My empathy increased though...I am on no depression treatment but chronic on high blood pressure which I manage easily. I strive to have healthy lifestyle and foods.

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Chelle3069 in reply tomagdolna

I wish I hadn't done. Sometimes wish that I had not had this stupid surgery done and just let nature taken its course, what will be will be.

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Madiepetsana in reply toChelle3069

I had no option but to agree to be operated on. At times, some things need help to manifest. It would have taken time to get back into the fold plus the rehabilitation thereof. After the coiling, I functioned well in just under a year. My case was worse off because as a spiritual being, it was thought off as a gift. I don't think I would have survived the ordeal naturally. I was so mixed up that I accepted any help whatsoever. Am happy that I did and learnt about it (aneurysm) after the operation. In my case it would have been thought of as witchery.......

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Chelle3069 in reply toMadiepetsana

That's what people tell me, they had to agree to surgery, but as I have no memory of this time I have to go by what people tell me. Sometimes I have so much anger towards the people for doing this its untrue, and for some reason I seem not to be able to accept the decision they made. I think I'm going nuts, well that's how I feel I seem to have to prove myself to everyone that doesn't see how I am struggling, by now 20 years on I should be back to be 'normal' god I hate that word. What is 'normal' everyone has their own idea of what that word actually means to them. I just don't seem to accept this person I've become.

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Madiepetsana in reply toChelle3069

Hydrocephalus may develop either early in the course of aneurysmal subarachnoid hemorrhage (SAH) or after the first 2 weeks. Because the amount of SAH is a predictor of hydrocephalus, the two available aneurysmal treatments, clipping or coiling, may lead to differences in the need for cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) diversion, as only surgery permits clot removal. Permanent shunting was found to be associated with coiling in my case.

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