i received lots of love and prayer from my first post so I wanted to tell you guys I had my procedure today (3/31/2022) !!!
I arrived at 5:30am, checked in, was under anesthesia by 8:30am, and was checked out by 1:30pm. They hooked up an IV, everything went extremely smooth, I woke up with no major symptoms other than a slight headache. I have two dots on my forehead from the gamma knife pins that bled as well as ones in the back. ( DO NOT PICK AT THEM), I was prescribed steroid medication for any headaches I may have but was told I CAN take Tylenol if needed.
Currently as of 12:17pm my only side effect is soreness from where the pins were placed, I will be allowed to remove the bandaids and properly clean it tomorrow. (Picture added below of where pins were)
Prayers for anyone that’s about to have this done !
I have a photo of myself with similarly placed bandages. I was surprised how quick the front ones healed, but the back ones took a while. Perhaps that was due to them bearing the weight most of the day.
Good luck with your 3-4 year healing journey. I showed little progress on my 1st and 2nd anniversary, but it was almost all gone by the third.
Thank you for the post, my son had an avm brain hemorrhage that was embolized and had a new avm embolized during cranioplasty, developed epilepsy, and the original Avm is trying to make a comeback by way of a recurrence, he is now preparing for gamma knife radiation, hoping to put an end to this saga…!