Need Info, siezures Head Injury Weakness

[Witiku]

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[pam]

hi..
To tell you the truth it sounds like you really are doing quite well !
My injury was very similar to yours, subdural hematoma, with the bleed above my left ear. I spent a month in a coma, then another month in the hospital trying to wake up and relearn all the basics. My outpatient rehab lasted a year.
My weakness was on the right side.

I still have problems with memory. Some of the problems are due to the injury, some are due to seizures, some due to the meds I take to control the seizures.

Speech was hard for me also. I knew what I wanted to say but it took a long time for it to come out right.

I would wonder if some of your vision problems could be from the trileptal ? I had nystagmus and blurred vision as well as increased balance problems while on that med.

You might want to check out the epilepsy forum here http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=144

Lots of folks there also have seizures due to head injury and might be able to help.

Welcome :)

Pam

[Witiku]

Pam,
Wow, sounds like you've been through the ringer! I feel bad complaining about this weakness when I hear of such struggles or some cancer battle as I'm more tuned to such war stories.

I do know I dodged a bullet getting off with these few deficits. My Neurologist reiterated I was literally 30 minutes from being too far gone. Lucky.

True on the Triliptal, I have all that and it comes and goes. The MD thinks monotherapy is best for now, I have no learned stand on the medicine issue. It exhausts me to try and read about the drugs. This stuff is wicked strong though.

I'll follow that link, Thanks and best to you!
W

[Kevin Jackson]

I'm a TBI myself. The one thing you must understand is that their is damage to the central nervous system in cases like yours. This controls the physical and emotional you. A lot of the tiredness could come from mental overload.

[linniec]

Dear Witiku
Go to Traumatic Brain Injury Forum by clicking

http://brain.hastypastry.net/forums/forumdisplay.php?f=269

Linnie

[Witiku]

Thanks Pam, Kevin, Linnie,

I'm checking out those links. Navigation is teedious.

I re-read my first post, I must sound stoopid. I was tired when I wrote that. :p

I just had an EEG. 'Focal Slowing Temporal'. What:confused: I'm supposed to get better!!!

Md thinks I may be having seizures with staring off that resolve or I'm snapped out of it and, get thsi, "I would be amnestic to the event." ... Unimpressive. He says I'm doing woorse. My Personality definately has changed, he observes. Where I am not aware of any big change, IMO.

Perhapse a common gripe but I'd like to be whole again. No driving. I'm quite upset about that. I want to go back to work again, I want to drive fast. Brake hard. Launch through the stop signs while I burn ruber while working ...

Hospise nurse work is looking farther than I thought. I planned to go back in a few days after the injury but I'm apathetic to even eating now, no atttention length. What an idiot to think I could beat this in days and see my patients. :(

I was so free before this head injury now I'm traped, most agrevating. More than the limp joints [[ asthenia?? ]] and verbal garbage output [[ Broca's Aphasia?? ]] is being on this roller coaster of too tired to get up and then bursting enthusisam to do something that makes me weak tired. This is an on an irregular and unpredictable schedule that exhausts me.

What can I do to force my neurons to go back to normal. That is a rhetorical question, aparently no one knows what is up with a brain, obviously, or these fine professionals would fix this injury.

I started Depakote and cerefolin nac today. I hope this works to help repair these cells back to normal ..
:rolleyes:

Thanks peeps.