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Old 02-16-2009, 12:06 PM
lynnschreiber lynnschreiber is offline
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This is my first time to a forum so that should illustrate my need to be here. I am here not for me but because of my son. He is 19, was always the perfect kid until a little over a yr. ago. Things went downhill fast. He was diagnosed with depression, then changed to bipolar, then to schizophrenia. But he had other symptoms that didn't fit. We tried to get him to drop out of college but he wouldn't yet he could hardly function and ended up in psychiatric ward of a hospital. There a neurologist took interest in his case. The dr. learned that my son had 2 childhood injuries, both to the right temple that required stitches (but no xrays were done); then there were blows to both sides of the head in martial arts (helmet on, but still...). Finally he learned that my son was in a bicycle accident in Aug 07 in which he went over his handlebars landing on rt side of his face. Trip to the ER but no MRI and sent home with concussion. 3 months after that we began to notice subtle oddities and his girlfriend called to report similar things. So here we are. My son was diagnosed with traumatic brain injury and mood instability disoder as a direct result of TBI. But my son's case is one of his drs. most perplexing. My son had over 80 symptoms in 8 months. They are inconsistent, as are the triggers, and totally unpredictable. Symptoms include panic attacks, anxiety, rage, obsession, hallucinations, lack of insight (a huge problem), seizures, personality changes, among many others. Our problem is one of management. My son is high functioning, an accomplished musician majoring in computer science and you wouldn't know to look at him all that was going on in his brain. We parents are frustrated, scared, and always confused. We hope this forum brings advice, support, and an ear to listen.
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