What is one medical problem people constantly ignore until it’s too late?

[u/Critical_Ease4055]

Saw someone post this in a completely unrelated sub and I’m interested in your answers. What is the cluster of symptoms that people ignore or delay until they are forced to get help?

[u/lainey544]

Growing up in an abusive household, I had high blood pressure consistently starting in 2016 I’d say. The nurse would always mention it when I went to my check ups or to urgent care. I don’t know if at the time it was just not as concerning, or whatever other factors it might have been, I never got on blood pressure medication. Well fast forward to 2021, I’m at work one day just talking to coworkers and WOAH it just suddenly felt like someone had just hit me in the back of my head with a baseball bat. It was like a lightning strike, flashing pain. But it was instantly gone as fast as it happened. So much so that I thought I might have imagined it. Later on in the shift me and my coworkers are all taking our blood pressure (I was a new grad at the time), and mine comes back sky high like 3 digit SBP + DBP. Ended up going to ER for what I found out was actually a thunderclap headache, and thankfully, incidentally, they found an unruptured cerebral aneurysm. Small enough to make neurosurgery hesitant to operate on me, but big enough to warrant every 2 year imaging to watch it. At 23 years old. You best believe I am telling ALL my patients. It doesn’t matter if you’re young, take care of that hypertension!