Shelli Bradshaw

Bill, Sorry to hear that about your sister. She was the same as as me really. I was only 3 months from 25, but I had an obvious reason. Did your family not find out what hers was? I'm sorry I have not responded sooner, and don't worry about saying this on my introduction page unless it has been moved and I need to go there. I haven't been on because I had one of my episodes. Thursday I took my mother-in-law, Rosalie to her arthritis doctors appointment in Abilene,Texas. I shouldn't have because I awoke feeling like I had been beaten, but I had already told her I would, so I went. It is an hours drive and we went early to do some shopping. Anyway, it was a 7 hour trip, and I have pretty much been asleep since. Symptoms like this also started in 2007, and along with the headaches and has gotten progressively worse. My GP claims this is Fibromyalgia that probably came from the Mononucleosis that I don't remember ever having. This was my fault this time. Rosalie ask me if I felt like going and I should have told her the truth. Since I had already told her I would go, and I don't really want her to know how bad I feel, I sucked it up, and it cost me. Shelli

@Bill, I spent 3 days in the hospital before they even knew what was wrong. Then one the third day, I had crossed eyes. I've never heard a name for the Third Nerve Palsy, but when I looked it up after you mentioned it, that is probably what I had/have. I also lost some peripheral vision. All of which was regain within 3 months. I had little to no information when this happened to me. What I was told was I should have died. That was nice to hear. The only thing I can really remember reading about it then was that the survival rate was 5%. I just read it is much improved, now something around 40-50%. The drugs I was given in ICU were to help reabsorb the blood back into my system and antibiotics for the meningitis. @Sandi The fatigue kept getting better and better. It seems like I remember it being the worst about the first 6 months for me. But I've never gotten back to the way I was before. I've always told people that this aged me 20 years. When we go out, my family get upset with me that I get exhausted after we do just a couple of things. It's just too bad. That's just the way it is. And I don't notice it so much now, but I used to notice, when I would get tired, there would come a definite time of the day when I just could not think "straight" anymore. Literally, my mental capacities would shut down when I would get exhausted. Thanks for listening to me, Shelli

They were non-aneurysm bleeds. I don't remember much about the day she(Kirstin) was born. We went in at 5:30 that morning because I was having burning pains, in what I later found out was my liver(who knows it's your liver:shock:). I go in and lay down and they hook me up and take my BP, and I remember seeing the systolic number was 225 and I passed out. I was unconscious the rest of the day until they took her by Cesarean that night at 8:40, when I told(or thought,I'm not sure) them they better hurry up or my head was going to explode because every time my heart beat, my head jerked. Or at least that is what it felt like.

I think the worst thing I dealt with at first , besides the headaches, was the depression that came from having a new baby and feeling like I couldn't take care of her. I didn't have much time to worry about me, I had to get back on birth control and go back to work, which I did, part time as a programmer, 2 months after she was born. I didn't have a very understanding or responsible ex-husband. I think I was back to work, full time after 3 months. Within 6 months, I was off all medications, except birth control pills. That's when I had the first follow up CT scan, and still had swelling. I had another CT scan at 18 months, and still had swelling. The only problem I have still never recuperated from, is the fatigue. BUT.... The reason I am here, is not so good.. I had have a lot of good years. I have had my own businesses, and even had another job concurrent with running one of those businesses. Then in 2007, I started getting headaches. They weren't everyday at first. But now, they are are everyday, at the same time of the day. They start around 3 o'clock in the afternoon. I started taking Topamax last summer, and they have controlled the headaches, and I stopped worrying about them, because I thought it was just from stress, because I lost my store and my job. But now, I am virtually stress free, so a few weeks ago, I thought I should be able to stop taking the Topamax. Well, I didn't take the night pill, and then didn't take the pill in the morning and then, by 3 o'clock that afternoon, like clockwork, there it was and it was bad. So, needless to say, I dug out the giant file , that I have already shown to my GP, with a letter from the neurologist, who said I shouldn't need anything unless I start having headaches again. So, I'm planning on going to get setup for a MRI or a CT scan and get an appointment with the neurologist I went to back in 1995-1997. I really didn't want to get on here and say hey, this is what you have to look forward to. I took the birth control pill YAZ for 3 months before these migraines started, so my hope is that they have nothing to do with the SAH(a far fetched hope). That's actually why I came looking for a support group, trying to find somebody who maybe had been through a good recovery and good years, then had headaches start again.

Hello all, First, let me say I wish I would have thought to look for this a long time ago. I had a SAH when my daughter was born on 12-6-95, by C-Section. I was 24 and healthy when it happened. The reason it happened was because I had HELLP syndrome. I had prenatal care, my whole pregnancy and had just had the last weekly checkup before going to the bi-weekly checkups. She was born 5 weeks early and had no problems. I spent two weeks in the hospital, one week in ICU on a morphine pump and also had meningitis because of it. I recovered pretty quickly. My main goal in coming to this site is finding people who has lived with the consequences as long as I have to see what their experiences have been. Thanks, Shelli