rachelashby

Thank you all for your replies and wishes. It's nice to know alot of people are survivors of SAH's. as awful as I don't like to admit it, I know it was just my mums time x

sorry for the multiple posts!! Quick question, for those that had an SAH – did it hurt....i mean when it happened or did you just black out and come around not knowing what happened? My mum had one which proved fatal (she never regained consciousness at any point) and im scared that she was in pain. Her partner who was there said she just said to him “hang on a minute” and then was gone but he said when she said Hang on that her face did not register pain – I’m worried that he might be lying to me to spare my feelings. Did it hurt? Could you hear people (if you went into a coma/unconsciousness)? Edited: From reading some other posts on here it seems there are many different types of SAH so I guess im aiming my question at people who went into unconsciousness at the time? if your unconscious you dont feel pain right? I remember getting hit by a car aged 17 and although the car hit my leg first I must have blacked out...i woke up thinking I had just hurt my leg but I had in fact hit my head....im hoping that given that hers was so severe and where it was at the back of her head that she felt nothing....

I would also like to say that my Aunt asked her GP about it who told her that it isn’t hereditary and that basically my Mum was a ticking timebomb....

When I googled SAH after Mum died it came up with five “factors” being High Blood Pressure (which she had), High Cholesterol (which she probably had), smoking (which she did), being a woman and family history. Now mum has no family history of this as far as we know but im concerned for my niece who now has had her father and grandmother have a SAH. Should she be screened? Would they do this on the NHS?

you are right in that it did affect her cerebellum. I know in my heart that there was nothing they could do because I was begging her to breathe when they were giving her the checks for signs of life and I know if she could have heard me she would of tried to breathe. I knew in my heart she was gone but just hoped there was some chance.

Thank you all for your kind words. It is devastating but i do take comfort in that she went quickly and painlessly and that she didnt know it would happen as it would have broken her heart to know she was leaving us. It was also a comfort that she donated her organs. We always used to have "morbid" talks and she always said she wanted to go quickly and although it may not have been nice for us, her going so suddenly, its what she would have wanted rather than a drawn out affair or her being left with severe disabilities. xx

I forgot to mention she had no symptoms, headache etc. the only thing i can think of is the week before she had a stitch like pain in her shoulder and it felt like trapped wind in her shoulder. not that it makes a difference. just trying to make sense of it all

My lovely beautiful mum died suddenly on 13 January 2013 aged 48. Her cause of death was a Subarachnoid Haemorrhage. She was sitting up in bed late one night, laughing with her partner and she said to him, hold on a minute (he said her face did not register pain) and just like that she was gone. Im not sure whether it happened instantly but her heart stopped and her partner and my young brother managed to get it restarted with the help of 999. It then stopped again in the ambulance and again they managed to get it restarted. She was taken straight to intensive care where she was put on life support. We were told they had done tests and that she had had a brain aneurism. They performed the brain activity tests and she was unresponsive to all of them and my beautiful mum was pronounced clinically dead. (she was not taken off the support because she had chosen to donate her organs). They had said that because of the size of the bleed and the where it was (at the back of her head) she had an unlikely chance of survival. Im not actually sure what or why im writing this....but has anyone survived a big bleed at the back of their head? Just seems so unfair that she didn’t stand a chance and my brother-in-law (aged 29) had one last year at the front of his head which has affected his sight a little but they put in a coil for him....why didn’t they try with her??