Dad's 'thunderclap headache' turned out to be a one in 10 million condition
manchestereveningnews.co.ukA dad was diagnosed with a 'one in 10 million' medical condition after suffering an extremely painful headache. Steve Ricketts, 46, was diagnosed with the neurological condition after collapsing at a work event in December 2021, with a headache that felt like ‘someone had taken a baseball bat’ to his head.
The regional commercial manager from Bramhall attended the function and felt ‘absolutely fine’ until he experienced the ‘thunderclap headache’.
Luckily, Steve had completed a St John Ambulance first aid course, allowing him to recognise that he needed urgent attention, believing he was experiencing a brain aneurysm, a bulge in the brain vessel. Try MEN Premium for FREE by clicking here for no ads, fun puzzles and b rilliant new feature s. Steve said: “I had a pressure feeling in my head, which extended into my shoulders and my arms and my extremities, I wasn’t able to speak, and I had tremors, seizure-like tremors.
I’ve never had a headache like it, and I thought I was a goner.” Steve was blue-lighted to North Manchester General Hospital A&E, where it was discovered he had a bleed on the brain, specifically a subarachnoid haemorrhage.
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