Good evening, everybody and thank you for adding me. I’m Ben, a 31 year old Man who also has Spina Bifida, living near Swansea, South Wales in the UK. I had a SAH on the 25th March 2014. The thunderclap headache came on as I was eating my fish and chips and the pain radiated all the way down to the top of my back. I didn’t go to hospital until the 27th as first of all the local doctor diagnosed that I had a pulled muscle in my neck, then the next day it got a little better.
On the 27th, I had terrible double vision which made my Mother phone an ambulance which took me to Morriston Hospital. After a few tests I was told that I’ve had a SAH and was quickly taken in an Ambulance with the blue lights etc, 90mph up to the University of Wales Hospital in Cardiff. I had coiling of 1 aneurysm on the anterior communicating artery but I have another very small one on the left middle cerebral artery which didn’t need coiling and the doctors are just going to keep an eye on it..
Two days after my coiling, I had a stomach bleed and went totally unresponsive, luckily I came around after two days, I think. I stayed in Cardiff until April 8th and was then allowed home. Since then I have been recuperating at home and up until this week, I was fine until I got a bladder infection.
I have had to be fine basically as my Dad has Leukaemia and my Mum and I have visited him in hospital as he undergoes chemotherapy.
It is a huge relief to read about the different pains and loss of vocabulary etc that you all have post-SAH. I hope to speak to anybody and everybody that want to speak to me. Take care.