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Originally Posted by PWood
I suffered a concussion in a car accident May 2, 2009, (got rear-ended sitting at a stop light) without hitting my head on anything. The impact was great enough to give me a concussion (neurologist said it's like adult shaken "baby" syndrome. The symptoms did not set in right away--over the course of 2 wks they worsened. I was off work 2.5 months due to my symptoms: personality change, couldn't do much as I would get dizzy, slurred speech, running words together or mixing them up (which at times were funny but still disconcerting), short-term memory loss, and a whole list of other symptoms. I could tell anyone off and not feel bad about it, which was weird as that is NOT me at all.
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The circumstances here duplicate my own...
The only difference is my I am much more placid, passive where I was not before...