[Sans-Culotte]

I have a couple of female acquaintances and a niece who have gone through this. I wonder does it affect women more often?

[EdnaMode]

I think so. My aunt survived one several years ago. A girl who went to my middle school (I didn’t know her) died from one.

[Secret Agent Man]

No, wome n just are more vocal about it.

[Caipirabob]

I’d like to see the link to birth control hormones. Yes, I knew several women who this happened to. Most survived. Most. All on the pill. It is a stated side effect.

[mosaicwolf]

"I have a couple of female acquaintances and a niece who have gone through this. I wonder does it affect women more often?"

Tragically my fiancee died of a brain aneurysm in 1984 at 34 years old. I have read that females are more sucecptable to a brain aneurysm than males. Very tragic, very difficult to diagnose, and very quick intervention must occur.