Emilia Clarke Discusses Surviving Life-Threatening Brain Aneurysms During Game of Thrones (tr)

Time ^ | March 21, 2019 | MEGAN MCCLUSKEY

[EdnaMode]

Emilia Clarke has opened up about surviving two life-threatening brain aneurysms during the early days of Game of Thrones.

In an article for the New Yorker, Clarke spoke publicly for the first time about suffering two brain aneurysms, the first of which struck shortly after she finished filming her scenes as Daenerys Targaryen for season 1 of Game of Thrones. She revealed that she experienced her first aneurysm at 24 years old while working out with her trainer.

“I immediately felt as though an elastic band were squeezing my brain. I tried to ignore the pain and push through it, but I just couldn’t. I told my trainer I had to take a break,” she wrote. “Somehow, almost crawling, I made it to the locker room. I reached the toilet, sank to my knees, and proceeded to be violently, voluminously ill. Meanwhile, the pain—shooting, stabbing, constricting pain—was getting worse. At some level, I knew what was happening: my brain was damaged.”

[EdnaMode]

Here is the link to Clarke's article about surviving brain aneurysms: https://www.newyorker.com/culture/personal-history/emilia-clarke-a-battle-for-my-life-brain-aneurysm-surgery-game-of-thrones

[thoughtomator]

I felt the same trying to watch that show.

[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?

[SuperLuminal]

Maybe it was caused by having to repeatedly spend a lot of time naked in fires...

[NorthMountain]

Time magazine?

No ... I might visit blogger sites, but not that sewer.

[PGR88]

Maybe it was Tears of Lys. Daenerys was nearly poisoned twice.

[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.

[Secret Agent Man]

And because of that, more likely to go to a doctor.

[fieldmarshaldj]

Stunning girl. One of the most beautiful speaking voices I’ve ever heard, too.

[Carriage Hill]

Ditto that.
I tried an early episode for 10-15 mins, and never watched again.

[caltaxed]

Beautiful face and a nice thick dumpster.

[toast]

Probably wasn’t breathing right while she was working out. Too much pressure in the head.

[chris37]

An ex girlfriend of mine died at the age of 40 of an aneurysm.

[Hot Tabasco]

This thread devolved pretty fast..........

[ExGeeEye]

The thread might have gone differently had she died or been rendered a cripple as a result.

So would the show have done...

As well as “Solo”.

[WashingtonFire]

Never got into this game of thrones but she is one hot piece of ass

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

Wow. I wish I had of thought of that! LOL.

[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.

[righttackle44]

My wife and many in her family including her father have suffered the devastating effects of polycistic kidney disease--PKD. She is the oldest surviving member of her family of all those who had the disease. It is a inherited disease.

One of the consequences of the disease is it can and does cause brain aneurysms.

When we changed Medicare companies, the new company asked her to have a complete evaluation including a brain scan. We went to the doctor for the follow up, and we found that she had a brain aneurysm. Went to a neurosurgeon, and about a month later, she had the procedure done.

It was so very close because, when the neurosurgeon started the procedure, the aneurysm was just starting to rupture.

What they actually do these days is to strengthen the part of the brain that is affected with platinum--it actually fills the bubble.

My wife is a part of the PKD Stops With Me movement. She wants me tell you that there was nothing in her daily well-being or routine medical care that showed she had a brain aneurysm.

I think she would also want me to tell you to be very careful with your kidneys. Fortunately, a donor, our adult son, stepped forward and donated a kidney so that his Mom, my wife, could survive the disease so that she could live without a lifetime of treatment that could have included life-long dialysis.