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I live in the Pittsburgh area. On June 19, 2022 I sustained a grade 3 diffuse axonal injury. Went to AGH then to UPMC Montifor and lastly UPMC Mercy. Got to my then home on November 2, 2022. It was a dirt bike accident at Switchback MX in Butler, Pa
4 year ego i got a tbi form a crash any year any day is diferent you can go to the bed very happy and the next when you woke up you feel diferent full of adrenaline very mad in the day the same a lot problems any day are diferent symtops
I use to slam my head off the walls, just to keep my mind off of trauma and psychological pain. Now and days I just feel numb emotionally. I don’t feel any excitement in hardly any activities let alone life itself. Now I just find myself in bed. Doing nothing most of the time.
DO NOT DO IT ON WOMENS OR GIRLS ARMS! And DO NOT let them do it on your daughter's arm. Do it on the back, preferably on the inside of one of the shoulder blades where there is no sex appeal and it is not noticable. It will leave a scar on her arm. Doctors and other health workers have little regard for the sex appeal of women's body parts.
I fell off a flat roof when I was 6. Hit concrete on my forehead. Cut my head open in two places. It was in 1967. Just sewed me up and parents took me home. Ace bandage wrapped around my head. The worst headache I ever had. Couldn’t learn certain things. Had a really bad temper too. Be never been the same unfortunately. Self taught guitar because I cannot comprehend learning music. I learn things but over time it’s like I never did. Went to college to study Golf course and Landscape technology. Life has been difficult but I’ve managed to survive lol. I believe in our Creator very much and that keeps me grounded. I feel better these days because this world at this time has gone absolutely nuts. I’m now 63. I only had one migraine in my life and have never actually had a headache since.
He says that some genes may be related to both brain inflammation and neurotypes like autism, not that brain inflammation causes autism. It is much more common for an autistic person to experience brain inflammation than it is for a random child.
I need some sleep and I don't get too much.I go to a bad really wait.Sometimes and I don't get enough sweet.Please write back to me and time for me to go to bed tonight.I need help
I know this is not scientifically accurate but when I've had chest pain I'd take a few low dose aspirin and it would help relieve the pressure. Now I'm dealing with leg pain right where my vein is so I'm taking 81mg and changing my diet from daily fast food to oatmeal/eggs and tuna primarily. Breaking the habits are not easy but I've gotta do this.
I also had spinal fliid leaking out of my nose when I tipped my head forward. But for many many many years couldn't verbalize anything I was going thru but the present moment.
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Vaping daily is similar to smoking 2 packs a day. Ask your MD for medication to stop this nasty habit. If I can do it, so can you. You're not hopeless, people you can quit.
At 11 years old I had a pony kick me in the head and folded back a piece of skull about 2 inches in diameter on my right temple. I survived it and even got to look into my head with myoms compact mirror before they closed and stitched it up.. Then in about 2017 I was working on my porch/deck and had stood up a 12 foot 4x4 and then forgot about it and I walked about 5 feet away to dig a hole for another post. While I was digging the post I had stood up fell over and knocked me to the ground. It caught the rest right side of my head giving me what I know now as a severe concussion. My wife and I lived by ourselves and we're pretty independent so when this happened she got the garden hose and helped me to wash the blood off my head and finally got it to stop bleeding. The cut was about 7 inches long and she wanted to take me into the hospital but seeing as I was standing and talking to her I said that we would just bandage it up and I had long hair so I had her tie it together like stitches and after a bit I finished digging the hole and nailing up that freaking 4x4 then went to take a shower because I still had quite a bit of blood on me. When I got into the shower I tried to wash out the cut and when the water hit in the cut I couldn't remember anything but she found me kneeling in the shower just rocking back and forth and she helped me snap out of it and got me standing again. It healed with the help of some herbal treatment that I made myself at the time with mullein but now years later I think I'm having issues because of it. 4-5 years after this I was watching TV and I can't tell you what show it was but all of a sudden I had tears streaming down my face! I shouted at her and she came running in to see what was wrong and I remember the look she gave me because I rarely saw that look of fear and confusion. She asked what happened and I told her that I didn't know,! I just started crying! This time, not knowing what the issue was I agreed to go see the doc. When I did and he asked me if I'd hit my head or something and I told him about it and he felt it he got all pissed off and said that I should have went in and had it looked at then. He was used to us and knew we generally doctored ourselves and agreed that many times that was a good thing but explained how this should not have been one of those times and that perhaps this caused my tears because of pressure but said that nothing could be done about it since it was already healed solid now. Know I have shortness of breath issues and the years happen a couple of times a week and I get these tense moments which I guess could be considered panic attacks yet no reason for any panic. I'm wondering if this breathing problem could be related to that and if anyone else has had this issue. I don't as far as I know have any type of personality changes but she passed away and I'm kind of a loner now so maybe I just don't see it. I can talk to people all day when they're around but when they leave I really don't miss them and can spend several weeks alone literally enjoying the MY TIME! LOL But I'm trying to simply find out if this could be the cause of my breathing issue because I've been to the doctor many times now and just gave up and am using herbals to treat a possible lung infection with no real success but I had no success )o
That’s a gnarly story man, keep your head up, you’re a warrior. I use to suffer from panic attacks and depression, now just depression but if it is just panic attacks and not like anything physical, you just got stop over thinking and try to relax.. the brain is a strange thing if u panic it’s gna panic. Stay strong.. & about the socializing I think you’re like me we are just introverted , but remember being that isn’t bad its just part of our personality.
After reading the comments section, I never had a head injury. However I respect the helmet law all if a sudden. I am 53 and did all BMX stunts and riding without a helmet because I couldn't afford one. Now I respect the helmet law, and I always have my kids wear a helmet.
I was in a motor vehicle accident in 2005 at the age of 20 and collapsed the whole right side of my brain. I have struggled with memory issues along with anxiety and severe depression ever since. I have worked the whole time since the accident and my anxiety and seizures have just gotten to bad and i have 38 of the 40 credits needed as well as 20 years of medical records and they still are denying me. I am awaiting my appeal now and can't find an attorney because i filed everything myself. When i see the judge it will have been almost 30 months.
Hi, I sympathize with your experience. I learned that some states (if you are in the US) simply don't grant disability unless you require care to live at all. Florida is one of those states. I too had substantial proof and was denied 3 times because I had filed myself. Meanwhile I completely quit working because I was pink slipped the whole year, I got evaluated for learning disability and the whole lot like working memory and processing speed among many other things and was diagnosed 3 different times as having significant impairment that could not be accomodated on a job and would never improve but only worsen. I had the same judge every time but finally got a charity lawyer through the last one of the 3 the homeless shelters I was in for 2 1/2 years. We got denied on his first defense and requested a state appointed medical expert, turned out worked as a counselor in a women's prison. We were sure we would lose again but because he was curious why I had the same challenges that women inmates had but hadn't ended up in prison likethey did, he read my nearly 3” thick medical record, evaluations, work history and steadfastly endured the judge repeatedly asking him intimidatingly Who pays your salary? To which he answered The State. He layed out to the judge that there were no jobs that would repeatedly retrain me due to memory impairment or spot me indefinitely due to learning disabilities or tolerate the number of days I'd miswork due to depression, anxiety, headaches, body malfunctions, etc.. And she was about to insist that I go to workforce program and get a job with a spotter and he interrupted her saying, It's not just this issue or that issue, she suffers from all of them. She cannot work. There are no jobs that she can perform well enough to hold. The judge was mad. But I got disability that day. It's important to 1) have some kind of attorney 2) get evaluated 3) not be working for as close to 6 months as you can get. Get on AND, tell your doctor you can't perform "any type of job anymore", you are mentally/physically/emotionally maxed out 4) request a medical expert 5) Appeal as often as you're allowed because if you start over, you will lose entitlement to the years of backpay the state would have given you for your previous denials. Always Appeal. 6) don't go into your hearings dressed ss best as you're able, instead go in looking your usual... skipped shower, tied back hair, achy, tired usual unwell self. You don't want to give the judge mixed messages. Look the way you say you feel most of the time. Don't be ashamed to say things like; I dkip meals or over eat, I only shower twice a month due to my fatigue, I have difficulty organizing and cleaning my home, I need help, I forget and burn my meals, foget and miss my appointments, cry often... these things are recorded and evaluated on your and the state's behalves. If your identity and presence doesn't match your claims and records, they deam it inconsistent and deny you disability. But regardless, if you live in a state that doesn't regard any disability but totally dependent on someone else for survival.. you simply not win there. I might look into relocating to a more sympathetic state. Even so, SSI (not enough work history to have SSDI saved up from earnings) is always harder to get than SSDI (awarded when one has accumulated the Social Security Disability INSURANSE savings from years and years of paychecks). Various state charitable/organizations and Human Services, and the like can suggest/direct you to free/sliding scale legal entities like Legal Services in your area. I went to a learning University to get my first learning disability evaluation. I wasn't working so I stated I was indigent and my fees were waived. Go to primary care doctors, request specialist for your specific issues and keep up-to-date records of your issues/symptoms progressing. SSI considers recent documentation as the basis for granting on current disabilities, and only if you cannot perform duties on any type of job for longer than typical job probationary hiring period (aprox. 90 days - 6 mons.). Holding any type of job is very disqualify to them. Your emotional/mental health state is considered as valid as physical health so if you have qualifying mental health issues from your TBI as most do, then let that work for you. Don't keep telling them what we've learned to have to say... I'm doing my best, I'm fine, I'll try... learn to tell the truth ee get rejected for saying to the average person... I'm failing, I have nothing more I can give it, I'm too depressed or fatigued or mentally exhausted to try anymore, I just can't anymore. Believe me, that is what they listen to when everyone else rejects it from you. Say the truth and don't stop saying it. Therapy can be a great place to document all that you go through not just mentally and emotionally but also physically and can document your experiences with good doctors/specialists and bad ones who gaslight you. You can do this much. If you're disabled enough and can still understand this, you can do this much... and you really, really need to before your executive functioning stars failing like mine has and you really need a 24hr babysitter like I do. Get it done before you aren't able to at all. Show the juge what you are like on your worst day, let that help them understand the way it is MOST of the time and document how it has progressed recently. I wish someone had helped me. I had to figure it out myself, no professionals would explain it... I think even they didn't know. I wish you success ❤️ I'm sorry for all the hardship you're suffering. I started my efforts in 2011. I got my probono charity attorney in 2014. I got disability in 2018. I got my BI Waiver in 2020. I'm on permanent disability now, 2024. I was denied 4 times, first 3 I didn't appeal, 4th and 5th I had charitable probono attorney, we lost the 4th and won the 5th trial. I applied and still live in a sympathetic Midwestern state. You won't be forgotten by me.
Had a TBI, 2 Skull Fractures and In A Coma for 6 weeks and 3 days at Baylor Hospital Dallas Texas in 1974. I'm 60 years old and suffer from GAD, Panic Attacks, Depression, PTSD, Total Memory Loss Prior To Wreak, Headaches Everyday unless I take my Headache Medicine From Neurologist and Paralysis on my left side for 13.5 mths. I've struggled with my life ups and downs since the wreck. Where I was hit by a DRUNK DRIVER ON BIKE AND MY BODY WAS UNDER HER CAR FOR 500 FT. MY BODY LOGGED BETWEEN UNDER CAR AND MY BICYCLE. HAD BLEEDING FROM MY LEFT EAR, MY NOSE AND MOUTH. HAVE ANY QUESTIONS ANYONE. I'D BE HAPPY TO HELP IF I CAN... GOD BLESS YOU ALL VEE...
I survived 3 nuclear bombs while having brain damage, got shot, got electrocuted, got burned and ran over 12 times by a drunk driver. Now i lost all my limbs and is still walking to this day.
It would be great to see more research like this. Those injections cause pain and bruising and a person can still get a second blood clot when injecting them every day. Getting funding for the medication is extremely difficult for most people. This is a topic that truly needs more study. There needs to be an effective, safe, low-cost way to prevent and treat blood clots.
I notice a couple of interesting tfirst off. Are Parkins patients capable of having a normal loving relationship with a daughter persof the opposite sex? Where is the wiring so screwed up? That they find themselves incapable of that
A few bad concussion in my life mixed with longcovid in 2020 and I am haveing a lot of trouble. Its difficult to simply make dinner or remember how to work with a power tool. ❤
