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Age 46-55
Interview 30  

Interview 30

Age at Interview: 54
Sex: Female
Background: Is a married mother of 2 children and is a nurse trainer. Ethnic background/nationality: White/English.
Brief outline:She had two sub arachnoid haemorrhages (age 32 and 52). The first caused temporary left weakness and the second some memory problems and migraine. Medication. atenolol, lisinopril (blood pressure), co-codamol (migraine).

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She said that the angiogram was a weird sensation but not painful.

 



An angiogram is an injection of radio opaque dye that is put in your arm, travels through the bloodstream and they take x-rays and they can see where there is maybe a tear in an artery or venal wall. The last angiogram I had was April last year and I'm due to have another one in October because 20 years after my first sub-arachnoid I had a second sub-arachnoid, treated at a different hospital and treated in a very different way.

So with the angiogram, do you have to have any anaesthetic or do they give you a sedative or anything?

No nothing. They like you awake so it's quite a weird sensation. As a nurse, I can watch the monitor and know exactly where they are. I can't say I actually felt the catheters because arteries don't have nerve endings for that but you can see it on the monitor and when they inject the dye, the radiologist will say, “It will feel warm behind your right eye”, and he injects the dye and you see the dye going through and, yes, it does feel warm behind your right eye but, no, no anaesthetic, no sedative, could have done with a double Scotch at the time [laughter] but fairly painless. 
Jonathan Miller - Stroke
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