Interactive Brain

I was in a head on collision in 1995. I still do not any events of that day or months that led up to the accident. I was life flighted and died twice. Brain bleed and sever swelling along with collapsed lung. When I awoke 17 days after I didn't believe I was in an accident eventhough I was still in hospital. I had lost about 5 years of memory. Little specks of memory piece by piece and the majority was back. Except months leading up to the TMI. Since the accident I can not remember names. Even customers I see monthly for years. I know the face but not a name. I must ask and enter in computer and write it down and still no memory of it the next day.
Now at the age of 50, 25 years later I am having bigger issues with my memory that frightens me and I would love to learn about treatment. Now I can't remember tasks. I can't retain computer programs or where to go to find what. I will tell someone I will check on something and call them back and if I get interrupted before I speak to them again, I forget. I write notes and reminders and sets alarms in my phone if I remember to or don't get distracted. In this busy life, distraction is normal. I now work in an office by myself. I fear my co workers or boss will discover the problems I'm having and I'll lose my job. Life has become extremely difficult and stressful. I have always been an over achiever. Goal originated and now I could care less.
Does anyone have any recommendations?
I just had a complete blood profile done and nothing irregular was found.
I hope someone can tell me or guide me in a direction to reverse what is going on. I NEED HELP.

I had a similar event from a fall off a scooter. I don’t remember the first 2 weeks due to medication. I spent a total of 10 weeks in inpatient or outpatient rehab and went back to work after 10 weeks. Things are mostly the same as they were from most people’s perspective. My family always looks for what’s different and I know what things still give me additional stress or fatigue. I’ve learned that I’ve been blessed and most people don’t improve as fast or as far. But that being said, there’s still things I know that are slightly harder than before. I’m at week 16 today so it’s hard to say how my case can help you understand your son’s. What I can say is it’s helpful when I don’t feel like I’m under a microscope. It’s helpful when my family doesn’t tell me I’m not better. Time is needed and some things might not go back to the original. As far as adhd, Im an adult who never had that issue, but I will say my perspective on life changed. I’m calmer most of the time and very thankful and appreciative of people who helped me along the way. For kids, things change over time. If my parents compared my 14 year old self with my 18 year old version, I’m not sure they’d think I was the same. God listens to prayers so keep saying those. I’m certain that’s why I’m still here, and very thankful every day. Good luck. I’ll pray for your son.

I have a 14 year old son who on May 31 was in a bad car accident. He was life flighted to local Children's hospital. Where he had two small brain bleeds and swelling. He was placed into medically induced. Coma so he would stay calm. He was in there for about two weeks maybe three. He was the. Sent to a children's rehab was there two weeks And is home now. Doing really well. He did have Adhd. before the accident. He is in school boys scouts and speech therapy once week. My question how long before he gets back to his old self. And could the accident make his Adhd worse.

This reading will allow me to ask more questions to my doctor about thins i feel they don't know about me,

I was in a bad car accident when i was 14. The doctors said i would not survive one night and that my version was soup without further explanation. I didn't know until 5 weeks ago that i could even have side effects. I was a straight A student before the accident and afterwards i was all D's. I was still smart i just didn't know i needed help.
I am almost 40 now and I've been passing out, having pain in my head, am confused often, frustrated, have mood swings, trouble communicating, staying focused.
My wife gets so mad at me for not being able to communicate my feelings, show "proper" facial expressions, etc.
I am so glad she does not y get mad at me now for processing sound and speech. I just don't understand how to express to her that I'm really trying.
This is new for both of us as these symptoms, whatever they are, are so new. I did not have any of these problems a few years ago.
Oh, i shake now too. I can be doing something and in the middle of it I shake uncontrollably for what feels like an instant. My wife told me that the shakes last for a few minutes. Sometimes i have to open a door a few times before I can complete the task of getting out a dish or walking through it. I saw my doctor last week and she's referred me to a neurologist. I hope i hear good news.

I learned the different names of the brain along with what each part does. It was all fascinating to learn.

I was injured in a grizzly bear mauling on 7/19/09. At first I was focused on my soft tissue and bone injuries and healing.
It wasn’t until I was referred to a speech therapist that it became apparent that I also had a tbi. Simple dayly tasks like reading counting money and driving. I found myself having to relearning my trade.
I am almost 9 years out from injury and have been able to maintain my small business.
I have found tools to help me with dayly life and my business.

So sorry to hear of all your pain and suffering - I hope you are doing better now.

I also had a major car accident at the age of 19 and damaged front left lobe ( amongst other things). Been struggling ever since with concentration, social impulse and memory, but now I am 63 and have enjoyed a full and successful life. No secret, but surround yourself with close friends who can help and guide you and don't be afraid to asking what , why and how?

My son, now 48, had seizure 18 years ago. During the period of seizure he was also diagnosed to have suffered from Hypoxic Encephalitis resulting into loss of memory and recognizing ability. since then he is under medication as well as some brain stimulating exercises such as jigsaw puzzles etc. Somehow I don't find any improvement in his memory and cognitive impairment. Pl do advise.

I have MS so my brain is always going through changes. I am on MS support group sites, I ask a question and get what seems like 1000 different answers. I love this site thank you

An infection ate away a section of my husband's lower left lobe of his cerebellum.  He now has comprehension and memory problems. How can he be helped?

Does a temporal lobe stroke cause up to 10 headaches a day?

I had an astrocytoma removed and my surgeon stopped using the image guiding machine and decided that what he saw was part of the tumor turns out that when he snipped it it was actually a blood vessel so when he snipped the blood vessel I woke up on the OR table convulsing so hard in fact they strapped me down to the OR table when I woke up I tried to speak but had a tube down my throat and when I tried to wave my arms to tell the surgeon that I was awake I realized head strapped to the table so I started using sign language 28th my right fingers I caught the attention of the resident who said huh doctor so so I think she's awake. Shortly after that the anesthesiologist came over made me blink twice if I was awake I blinked next thing I remember is freaking out because they wanted me to go through the MRI after brain surgery the last thing I wanted was a bleeping MRI so they sedated me and ran me through the MRI. After all of that to make sure the tumor was gone I went through 6 weeks of chemo and 6 weeks of radiation surgery left me paralyzed on my left side

I am experiencing constant debilitating pain on the right side of my frontal lobe, do you have any idea what the cause of this could be?

Each brain injury is unique. The most important thing the community surrounding the brain injured could add to the great progress occurring is to stop the community of "normals" from accusing the concussed of all forms of manipulation, laziness and under achievement. This is real the recovery time is ongoing. Be encouraging do not act as a detractor. To all who have brain injuries believe in yourself and love every day.

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This is so depressing...on top of major depression. Just reinforces my feelings of inadequacy. And I'm a neuroscience RN. Haha... Well, I used to be, although I've kept my RN license current, just to make me feel like I'm worthwhile, although, I'm not.

And to top it off, in order to leave a comment, I have to try to decipher some weird code-garbled word, I've tried 3x, and I'm about to give up. I have a hard enough time just reading and comprehending normal typed words. Why do you make this so difficult? 

It cool it just gave me a answer about the brain

As someone with TLE and a brain tumor, I found this site informative. Thank you

What a wonderful site and great service to the community. Thank you Brainline!!!

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