Danny

Hi shellie,i cant even imagine the stress your living thru,wait a minute i can i simillarily went thru a nasty divorce and live a fast paced life.well see my posts and you will understand.i just want to tell you that i feel great because all i did was sleep witch seems like an issue for you right now but i found that by reading a book from ekart tolley it opened my eyes to the reality of total relaxation.basically if you can stop your self from thinking about everything that is going on in your life and just concentrate on letting go of all of the things you cannot control you will relax and fall asleep.just let go..let your mind go blank...relax the more mental rest you get the better and faster you will start to heal.you can control it dont let your thoughts control you.its not easy but once you start trying it you will find it soothing.find a way to relax soothing music a long bath ect give your self the time you deserve to just relax.i works for me and i feel more amazing as the days pass infact i am now 1 year 2 months from my sub arachniod hemorage with temporary blindness in my right eye and just letting go and living instead of over thinking has made a huge diffrence in my recovery.hope this helps you..Danny p.s. a healthy diet and cardio excersice will greatly ballance your body and rest time.

HI Wade welcome to our forum there are alot of warm great people hear who have lots to share.First let me say hang in there i realy think if you can find a way to stay home for a few more months that would help a great deal since the more you rest yourself the better your gonna feel.I just want to share with you that my first 6 months where mandatory house rest and believe me every month i would feel a little better a little more stronger and have a little bit more stamina.i takes time so hang in there.Relax your mind as much as possible having to work is stressfull try not to let it be stressfull.relax your mind.hope this helps my fellow survivor.Take care go slow.Danny.

Hello Vannessa,i am 1 year and 2 months out from my sah.I feel amazing some days and some days i dont.I would like to share some of my insight to myself and what my interpretations of dealing with what we have gone thru.First believe in destiny it is my way of putting logic to what we have survived.The dizziness your experiancing i believe is because you need to rest and approach everything a little more slower and with ease.Believe me i have tested myself and proved how futile it is to push ourselves i recently put in a 18 hr day after working 10hrs took 3 hrs sleep came back and did 18hrs wow headache dizziness (my right eye witch went blind for about 3 minutes when i had my sah)really started to hurt and i had focusing issues and flashes of light.needless to say it took all of my 3 days off to fully recover (sleep lots & rest) from working so much.i go to the gym and that helps alot a good regime of cardio and ballanced work outs not pushing heavy weights anymore help too.but the most important thing is learning to clear your mind.I recently read a book by eckart tolley witch really showed me how to totaly attempt to remove all thought from my mind.I practice this every night when i am in bed ready to fall asleep,i stop all thoughts of past present and future issues and wam i am asleep.it works try it i hope sharring some of my experiance has helped you or may help you i like to always think in the positive.vanessa please just relax more i think that realy helps i think the biggest issue with us survivors is learning to stay mentally relaxed as much if not always relaxed in our minds.work the body keep the mind relaxed.

Many thanks for your replies. I must say, Kris, that I have found your posts generally very enlightening both in terms of scientific content and of wise observations and I really hope your own recovery continues to progress and that you find a way of living and being that is as good and rewarding and symptom-free as as it can be. The idea of the body's gong-like sounds is interesting. I have always been into spiritual development in a sort of a way - not regular meditation though have dabbled since age 21 but get too impatient or distracted to persist. Maybe I should take it up properly. I have thought that it would be good to get the insights of a good alternative healing practitioner into the causes of NASAHs but it would be too much to expect answers when the conventional medical world shrugs its shoulders. I did get some plant extracts from a herbalist which at least had no side effects!

Anyway I think my NASAH had multiple causes - possibly some weakness in neck veins which had built up over years, cholesterol levels on the high side quite possibly due to stress as much as diet if not more so, stress due to unhappiness in life, cruel hours at work, lack of sleep, stress due to having had to put my mother into a care home and sell her flat without any help from a single soul (over the year before the NASAH happened), menopause (maybe - I think there may be a link with reducing hormone levels - one good thing is that I really do not give a damn how bad the symptoms may be as long as I don't have another brain bleed). Finally, throw in some bad karma of the sort we all build up if you believe in such things and perhaps some badly aspected planets and a malicious demigod or two saying "OK let's mess with this woman today" and away you go (I am being deliberately fanciful in raising these last possibilities, but who knows). Interesting too that a majority of the people posting on the forum are women - I read somewhere that there is a preponderance of women amongst people who have had SAHs and middle age say 45 plus seems to be the most dangerous time. Though there are younger people affected too obviously, and whatever your personal characteristics, it's a tough challenge.

Hi Phinella,my neurologist also told me that the majority of people that get this brain bleed are women i am a man and i am 51 years old worked out religously and i am speculating or hypothesizing that perhaps we are very deep thinkers and lack of sleep combined with stress and the ability to not just let things go lead up to this type of brain bleed i am not a doctor but an anylitical person with bad spelling.lol.i went thru a realy bad divorce and almost lost my house over it.but looking back i see how i was so consummed by my own thoughts let me share this with you the whole time i laid in the hospital bed in the intensive care unit i thought about my daughter and when ever i started to think about all the sad or woe is me thoughts i said to my self why do i care i only care about taking care of my daughter thats it the rest like mary b said people that love dramma and are real downers people that want to bring you down i ignore i whole heartedly believe in destiny now and play my part without any over thinking letting our powerfull minds rest i believe is the fundamental strenth we need to give back to our brains.i have become much more ballanced human being and i feel alot better.so nice to share that with you.dan

Hi Danny, welcome to BTG! Lots of warm and caring people here who understand what it's like.

Sandi K.

Hi sandy so nice to meet you,do you do cardio work outs?and how was it for you when you went back to the gym?

Danny welcome to the family x

i look forward to hearing more from you x x x

zany questions please ask x we are all here to help x x

donna

Hi donna nice to meet you,thank you

Welcome Danny!

Glad to hear you are doing so well. My SAH stopped bleeding on it's own as well but after a few days of being treated for the stroke I suffered from the high blood pressure I am sure. I understand you did not have any anni's so it was a NASAH? And will probably never happen again.

Life is so much different the time wasted on nonsence is gone or on people who love a life of drama. Life is for us living and to make the most of it.

I had moments of great peacefulness that was looking very pleasant while laying on my bathroom floor or I could keep that lighteing striking me in my head everytime I took a breathe let alone moved, along with vomiting at each movement I would come back and say I need to get help so I army crawled to wake up my husband. A lesson for me was it was my second time at the ER that night, and I was a bit embarassed to go back. I thought it was just the worst headache ever or a bug or something. I think back about it and it is ok to be embarassed, I am thankful the doctor recalled I was in earlier. I think for weeks I held my head in my hands to keep my head from moving.

Did you have to return back to work? How is your vision now? I lost some in the 10:00 area of left eye and the 2:00 of right eye. Sunshine hurts my eyes and give me a headache or migraine now. I spent no time outside last summer as it was hot and sunny every stinkign day! But now I have a "plan" to wear my old lady sunglasses over my eyeglasses and a brimmed hat so I don't run into things like branches etc in the yard. Either I am running my face into something or I think I see something that is not there and jump like an idiot. That is my plan to NOT POKE MY EYE OUT!

Hi mary so nice to meet you,i went back to work six months after it happened and it was difficult but good to be back the guys were good they went easy on me and now i am finaly pulling my own weight.i wear rose lens sunglasses now there sun cloud vintage sunglasses that seem to work the best but i still get headaches too.i too seem to see things out of the corner of my eye that dont exist.wow i dont tire out as fast as i did but when i do i stop and i usualy get a little head ache.i find sleeping a good long nites worth give me alot back for the day.and yes it was a nasah thank god but now when ever i stand up from bending over i do it realy slow and my gym regimins have changed i used to work out realy hard with heavy weights now i do alot of cardio and very light weights but lots of reps if i push too hard at the gym i get headachs later just like before it happened so i get scarred and just take it easy at the gym.the neurologist told me no more heavy weights so thats that.do you go to the gym and do cardio?

Danny,

I had a SAH with no known cause too. I also had terrible vision issues at first. Now, just when I get tired or when I went to the Detroit auto show and all the glaring lights. I am 1yr5months at this point. There is a lot of support here for any question or comment. Good you found us.

~Kris

Hello everybody i had a sub arachniod hemorage just over a year ago and my god i am greatful to be hear with all of you.i had a neck ache and head ache for about 3 days before and finaly on the morning it happened while i was at work early changing a brake on an airbus a300 i was crouched over the axle when i stood up to start removing the tire and WAM ! i herd like a snap and i instantly went from normal head ache to oh my dear lord god head ache and i had a hard time standing up thankfully i had a fellow worker next to me mikey and he grabed me and walked me to the warm truck were by the time i sat down i lost vision in my right eye.at that point mike had ordered up an ambulance and i thought i had reached the end of my life.but then by the grace of god i felt this over comming joy and started crying and for some reason i still cannot explain i realized i was gonna be ok.it was the most calming feeling and then the head ache was just unbearable and my vision slowly came back to my right eye.they rushed me to a close hospital here in philladelphia and did a cat scan and imediatly rushed me to thomas jefferson university hospital in philadelphia i have to say what an amazing hospital and staff there i stayed for 2 weeks in icu.my neurologist told me that they could not find the cause of the bleeding and by some miracle it stoped.I had three brain angiograms over the course of 4 months that all came back negative thank god.You know the whole time i was lying there in the hospital all i could think of was my little girl my daughter who is 9 years old i could not leave her.the neurologist told me that i need to take it easy and that i was fully in tact.i still have issues with my right eye and i have that ringing in my ears from time to time but it was a long recovery i took a year for me to feel alot better.This has totaly changed my life i no longer stress about anything and when adversity stikes in i just reflect back to how stressed out i was before all this happened,and how meaningless it is to become affected by stress and things we totaly cannot control.I am so greatful to god to be here and be here for my daughter most inportantly.One last note i had a difficult time speaking it took almost 3 months for my stuttering to calm down and even now i speak more slowley.some times i feel out of body whitch can be a bit bizzare but it gives me perspective.well i look foward to reading all your stories and sharring mine with you.god bless all of you ...Danny