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

Time ^ | March 21, 2019 | MEGAN MCCLUSKEY

[righttackle44]

Thank you for your completely brainless contribution to this topic that can have deadly consequences. (Free Republic wants me to tell you that the thank you part of the previous sentence is sarcasm.)

[SuperLuminal]

In any case, if she had needed it, I would have volunteered to give her mouth-to-mouth and massaged pounded gently on her chest...

[YogicCowboy]

I suspect it is related to reduced B-6 efficiency, leading to weakened arterial walls. B-6 deficiency is a long-term effect of the contraceptive pill, according to my past research.

I have sometimes seen the result of women becoming overweight: less efficient lean mass preservation, making B-6 deficiency a catabolic factor.

I once knew a young woman who was put on The Pill by her mother, ostensibly for regulating her menses, but really to prevent a pregnancy scandal. She was petite, was very fashion conscious, and had done some local modeling. She became quite overweight.

[YogicCowboy]

That sounds plausible.

[sparklite2]

[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.

[NorthstarMom]

My mom was recently diagnosed with polycystic kidney disease They discovered it by chance during a scan for something else. Doc told her that the first noticeable symptom is usually a brain aneurysm. She mentioned that her late uncle was treated for a brain aneurysm at St Mary’s (she was at Mayo Clinic) so they had quick access to his records and he did indeed have polycystic kidney disease.

So the polycystic kidney disease came from her dad’s side, same side that passed on elevated levels of LPa , which caused her heart attack 17 years ago at age 51. Out of 7 siblings, her uncle is the only one who had an aneurysm as far as I know.

[righttackle44]

. . . her uncle is the only one who had an aneurysm as far as I know.

That's really the scariest thing about PKD. You can have it and not know it at all until something bad happens. My wife's dad, who passed years before she and I ever met, was one of the pioneer patients of PKD treatment. A hospital in Michigan offered him surgery to see if they could make progress to treating patients by a surgical procedure--it wasn't even a even a transplant (this was the latter 1950s).

He went, had the surgery, but died because someone gave him the wrong type of blood after the surgery.

The last my wife saw of her Daddy was waving to him as he pulled away from their house for the long trip to the airport to go to Michigan.

[NorthstarMom]

I had an ultra sound of my kidneys about 3 years ago because my blood pressure shot up with no obvious cause. At that point my kidneys had no cysts. Hoping this genetic gift passes me by, although I got the high LPa and high blood pressure from her.

She doctors at the mayo clinic, they diagnosed her, told her that aneurysms are caused by this, but don’t scan for them? Her life is incredibly busy and stressful, but God seems to want her here.