Traumatic Brain Injury Basics

I had a fall recently which resulted in a small bleed from the brain. All is well but my hair which has been naturally ash-blonde all my life (I am 69 years old) has within hours of the fall started to turn red but from the bottom of the hair and not the roots. I have not changed any medication, shampoo, or anything at all but the red colour is spreading all over my head from the ends of my hair, not from the roots - Can you explain this for me, please.

Ollie Walton

My husband was shot through is frontal lobs during an armed robbery. Left side in, out right on the top. I have read everyone comments , everyone seems to now something is wrong. The problem with my husband his recovery is a miracle but according to him nothing is wrong, and he still can't comprehend what happen to him. He was diagnosed with dysexcutive syndrome. I know him for 31 years. There is so much missing, logic reasoning, emotions, no more intelligent discussions. You just don't know what you will get. No arguing . He doesn't understand any reasoning at all. His old memory is 100% but short term memory is shot. Which sometimes is a good thing, he does not remember what he was fighting with me the previous day. He has no empathy for strangers can be uncivil in shops. Nobody supports you in how really to deal with this. Everyone just wants to make a bug. Do you give him his way or do try to tell him what is missing.

Having sustained a TBI in 1981 at the age of 9 made matters difficult on me in SW, LA. I was in a coma for 28 days, was guided by a team of nurses to exercise to keep my heart palpitating, and never had my first seizure until the day that I was removed from that comatose state.. The first one was a Tonic Clonic and all the rest were Grande Mal. Based on my good health at the time of the concussion and the area that was damaged (FL) my recovery had here astonishing to many here in 2019 in SE, TX to the neurologists and psychologists whom have treated me

My daughter had a very severe blow to her brain 20 years ago and was unconscious for over an hour. She was checked by a neurologist for months afterwards and was declared clear. She now has an MRI showing white blood cells in the brain at the site of the injury 20 years ago. Is it possible this is still from the trauma as they are now checking her for MS? Any advice would be much appreciated.

Under any circumstances would it be considered normal not to be assessed for TBI if you were riding a motorcycle and had an accident at 80mph?

I guess you'd call me a baby boomer . I was raised in the 50's when stuff was kept in the family. My dad was a very short tempered and frustrated man . His main thing was to grab me around the neck and hit his fist on my head . This went on constantly to the point I was once knocked out . He did this my entire childhood until I moved out when I was 18 . How would I find out if I have TBI and how could I treat it now ? I'm 72

Hello everyone I am 37 years old and I suffer from a Traumatic brain injury. When I was 24 years old I got into a catastrophic car accident which led me in a coma for almost 4 months on the way to the hospital I died six times I suffered a collapsed long punctured spleen punctured bladder bleeding in the brain broken ribs broken pelvis Broken hips broken leg and also a broken clavicle i also jacked up my back I’m in pain every day which totally sucks I also have very bad nerve damage which affects my sciatica nerve. So I’m going to start off with this when I was nine years old my dad was in a horrible car accident and he also suffers from a Traumatic brain injury I’m gonna to try to keep this short and sweet and not get too much into detail. Please Can someone please help me out? Does anyone know anyone in my position where their father suffered a Traumatic brain injury when they were a child then later on in life they suffer for a Traumatic brain injury? I really need some help on this because I feel alone. I have therapy I see a psychologist twice a week and psychiatrist once a week. It would be greatly appreciated if someone could help me out. I hope someone out there can help me. Thank you Mike

No one ever explained to me what I was going through but my life sucks. I can't remember anything to save my life. I was on felony probation. Starting a well when I get t-boned by a car waiting to turn. Didn't even see me while I was on a motorized mountain bike doing at least 30. They had to put me out for fighting with them.

Everything I just read really spells out what I been going through for about 9 years. I grew up ADD and learning disability so it was really ..I mean IS very hard.  I haven't felt no pain at all so that's nice but I have been through so much stuff already that my brain is just mush. Sometimes I pretended to be so spacey because I can't remember anything short term so now I just don't even really try to remember stuff because I'll forget what I been running in my head for days.

I can mostly get to work on time. Still back inside a few times every day. And can't just be like ok it's fine I can bring it tomorrow.. no way. Then the process is compromised and I'll be lost all day even more.

I signed myself out of the hospital. My family, soon as I'm up they got to go home. So all alone for 9 or 10 years just being passive and excepting I'm unable to function. So I just go to prison with no idea the situation I read in. The hospital nursery let me go. I was so mean when I got up trying to get my girlfriend to get in bed with me. A vikodin 9 I think is what I was getting every 4 hrs. With fractures up both side of body from ankle to wrist, three ribs, and two parts of my back. I was alone now not even recollecting. They just let me go cause I was mean to everyone maybe? None told me "hey this is what happens" or "here's where you need to go" to be thought to process your confusion with stuff you know but you don't.

My lawyer didn't do nothing for me. He ended up with more than me after I had to pay all the bills and lawyer out of the little S100,000 I got for being injured for life.

No one ever explained anything to me. I thought I was fine. I didn't remember the accident and maybe one time was told I need to go see this counselor. Anyway, that's what happened to me. Got three small plates in my face where they went in behind my eye. Twenty feet bouncing off the windshield landing on my face. I didn't know until I went to prison and got my psi investigation for sentencing. Got 10 years for trying to cash $500 stolen check. Didn't even get to cash it, they knew. But ten years ago when I was 15 got jumped after friends and I chased some other kids home. My friends started running away when they came out with sticks and bats. Not me. I'm already in it. I took this guy's bat after I let him swing and chasing hitting him his friends jump out from hiding waiting. Straight in the back head with bat doing doggie paddle cause 5 people are all trying to hit my face with wepons. Had a concussion for couple days couldn't remember. Kept having to ask what happened when I'm trying to share the stories.

About 28 years old my best friend was tricked into thinking I'm stealing something his wife pawned while he was in jail. Set me up. At my face again another bat. Couldn't close my teeth my lips were so swollen. Ducktape saved my face..

This was just after the first five years in prison. Then another ten years to help my girlfriend try and cash this check cause her kids are gone and we're trying to get them back.

At a homeless shelter now after 8 months for probation. Got a job going every day but no license so it's motorized cause work is 10 miles away from where I live. And bam, kiss the windshield out on contact. I'm grateful I do not remember but like a dead fish on my face after 20 feet.

Not figuring out why I spend most hrs trying to remember what I was going for with everyone saying "oh yeah me too trying to remember." "Getting old," they say.

Anyway this blog or whatever it is really helped me and now I'm off to doctor first thing because my nose has been dripping. I'm more sick and it's like light yellow colored just keeps on coming out. Oh and now I have an electric bike. It does 40 mph all over. Still no license but I got to work. Now out there again in the snow ice and rain freezing 7 miles to work at 6am along with everyone trying to get to work. So I got a car now. I'm suspended so i might go to prison for it. I have been out over two years with 0 trouble. I am getting off early soon. Quit one job cause I felt uncomfortable after everyone thinks I'm just on drugs. That's why I'm never the same one day to next. I was doing pot and that's the only way I can sleep or alcohol. Otherwise, pillows can't be used and need smoked every morning with no sleep. Now I have Gout in my toe too that sometimes wake up and can't walk well at all.

Got no insurance, no family in the same state. They moved here from the coast when I was in juvie. Alone there and now moved back while I stayed here on parole working with now on top of the trouble I get in trying to be excepted cause I'm being taken care of just like whole life.

No one to teach me nothing. Growing up mom had PTSD my grandpa abused them all. Now for two years, I been making it work but I quit job to go back to another but I can't remember things enough to keep up and not do things obviously wrong. Tried another job and was told I can find another job that "there's not much going on.." so now I'm in an apartment rented through a motel cause lived there about a year with no job no food and rents due in 3 days.

So now put all my things that I can't sell into my piece of crap car and moved back to the shelter. To start all over.

I'm trying to do so good so I can move back to Oregon and be done with where I'm at now.

I have never been on meds or had a doctor to even get any. Ritalin when I was 12 for a month. I really think I need help with resources to help me with rent while I get some very much needed medical attention to help me get focused, get my license insurance, and a way to relearn how to learn without having anxiety attacks daily.

I know most may have moved on but I really needed to get that out. I've been through a lot and being a drug user I don't even know what to ask for and if I would even get it. It needs to be something that is stronger than normal cause my tolerance naturally is way more than most since I have been self-medicating my whole life.

Goodnight lol.. thankful runny nose led me here where I learned a lot. I really am going through it. Now should I be worried about brain fluids coming out my nose? I been physically working harder than I ever have the last few weeks. I'll tell yeah should I be worried no headaches or nothing ever but my thought process makes it very hard to learn and maintain in work involvement. It can be and I do ok but I'm always late and confused.

I have suffered from 7 whiplashes, none of the car accidents were my fault. I've also had 2 concussions and a broken tailbone which paralyzed me for some months.

The doctors and chiropractors I went to insisted on doing new x rays each time. I tried to get them to give me my x rays but they said I would lose them. Instead they lost them.

I think all the x rays contributed to the large brain tumor that nearly killed me 6 years ago. Fortunately, I had studied to be an Ayurvedic physician for 26 years. I wish I had known it was a brain tumor before I was incapacitated, unable to read or walk; but I thought the pain I was experiencing was the result of my past injuries.

I told my husband how to treat the cancer and he took care of me for the year and a half it took to heal. I've been doing very well, working 7 days a week helping others heal from cancer, then 5 days ago had a brain stem injury. I couldn't breathe well or swallow for a couple of days but I used some of the same techniques from when I had the brain tumor and I'm recovering.

To all my relations suffering from TBI, consider using natural therapies instead of surgery and harsh drugs.