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Hi Robert Glad to hear your doing well and your being positive. Good luck Shirls

Hi Carole Sounds like you and your family were treated very badly. Welcome you will find lots of help and advice from everyone on here. Shirls

Hi Anne Belated Happy Anniversary. Shirls x

Hi Broron, It's still early days but you will find great advice and support on this site. Shirls

Hi Jilly Welcome you will gets lots of advice and support here. Hope all goes well for your next coiling. Shirls x

Thanks SL will look for your post and good luck with you angio when it happens. x Lol Win at least we all know we definately have brains Even if they are a bit wonky Just going to check the size my bum is does anyone have the measurements of trolleys? :lol:

Not at all Kel I need to know what to expect. Just my way of coping My imagination is usually much worse than the reality I would love to watch the coiling op if you have a link to it? Thanks Shirls

Thanks Kel for the info. Thats a great post about your 1st Angio. Still scared but feel better for knowing what will happen. And it will be good to know all is ok Shirls

Thanks Louise it's nice to know not such a coward after all

Hi all I Have appointments at the hospital The 1st is on the 28th Nov for a MRA scan and pre assessment the next is on 5th Dec for an Angiogram. I must admit i'm dreading going back to the hospital so any advice would help. Thanks Shirls

Hi Rachel I don't think GP's have much idea to be honest I feel like giving him information rather than him helping me. I was luckier than you if you can call it lucky in that I had a cause and a repair but this site has given me much more information than the hospital although they were fantastic it has only when I have got home and began recovering that I needed answers. I have found the headaches are getting better slowly but if I do to much or don't drink enough then I feel ill. Good luck I'm sure you will get help from the peeps on here. Shirls

Thanks everyone at least i'm not alone tiredness and stress does seem to have a big impact. I will try the deep breaths and see if that helps. Or maybe just throw a wobbly and they will remember i'm not the same as i used to be :lol:

Does anyone have any tips for coping withn the frustration of trying to say something and it won't come out I've just thrown a wobbly at work cos my son wouldn't give me time to find what I wanted to say. If you know what I mean. Shirls

Hi Robert, I'm new too so no advice just wanted to wish you lots of luck for the 23rd Shirls

Thanks all for the lovely messages. It does help to know others are suffering the same symptoms as me and many much worse than me. I do at times do more than I should and suffer for it. But I am very lucky as my partner does everything at home cooking, cleaning etc so although I am back at work I do nothing else unless I want to. Shirls

Hi all. I've been reading everyone's stories before I felt ready to tell mine. I feel I am very lucky but tell me what you think. I had my SAH on 31st May 2011. I was at work went to the loo and had this weird vibration all over my body I work in my family business so shouted my son who was a nurse that I felt ill. Then I got the most awful pain in my neck and down my back, everytime I moved the pain shot through me. We decided I must have hurt my neck in some way so my dad took me home and after feeding by dogs I went to bed. I got up an hour later with the worst headache I have ever had and realised I needed help. Cut a long story short my son & dad took me to casualty at our local hospital after a long wait I had a scan and was transferred by ambulance to the Southern General in Glasgow(OMG morphine is a wonderful drug). Next day I had another scan and then a coil fitted. I spent 3 weeks in hospital and all I can really remember is the headaches, a lumbar puncture, the day my left side was dead, but it came ok with fluids:shock: The day my brain went into spasms and everything I tried to say came out wrong (that was a scary day) but that came ok too. Then I got home I could do very little but sleep but slowly I got better. I went back to work for an hour or so every day 3 weeks later. We moved house on 31st August and I had a week's holiday then went back to work full time I do get very tired especially when I can't sleep at night. I struggle at times to find what i'm trying to say which I hate. And I have fired my curry down the front of my dress in a restaurant because my coordination isn't good but getting better but i'm alive and very grateful for that I was very independant before my SAH and I struggle with being so much more dependant on my family than I used to be but I will just have to get used to the new me Hope I haven't bored you all but I can't sleep tonight Shirls