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Old 01-25-2012, 06:55 PM
JulieRN JulieRN is offline
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Thank you everyone for your responses. I'm going to keep this brief because my head is still hurting and I don't want to put any more stress on my eyes..

I made it to my appt. I gave myself and hour for a 30 minutes drive, to be safe...it was basically all highway and I stayed in the slow lane...

I told the MD how I was feeling and he suggested rescheduling...obviously, I said NO because it's taken FOREVER to get to this point...I told him if I felt gravely ill we would stop...he also recommended F/U with my primary...

Interesting...the testing was going fine until he placed a sheet of paper in front of me with all small numbers and told me to place lines through all of the number 6's....I thought I was going to vomit just looking at that paper! The sight of all of those numbers was immediate brain overload for me...

Nothing physical happened to me over the weekend...I haven't exercised in sometime now because I just haven't felt up to it...I have been under A LOT of stress lately and I think it's taking it's toll....(I hope it's just stress)...

I will go to the ER tomorrow if I am not feeling significantly better...really, really, REALLY scaring myself over here...my oldest Sister died at 32 of a subarachnoid hemmorhage...and being a Nurse, I always tend to think the worst...

I'm going to go rest but can't thank everyone enough for taking the time to respond....knowing that someone else has experienced some of this makes me feel less freaked out....
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July 21, 2010, one month after starting my new job I sustained a concussion after standing up quickly from a sqatting position and subsequently being impaled by the corner of a metal filing cabinet in to the left side of my skull. Dx. Post Concussive Syndrome.

Female, 45 years young
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Mom of 3 boys (22,19,10)..Registered Nurse 16 years
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Symptoms: Vertigo, difficulty concentrating, unable to multitask, fatigue, severe transient headaches..severity and location change frequently, anxiety, PTSD, tinnitus, "electrical like sensations" across the top of my head, "hot flashes", numbness and coolness to hands (worsens in A/C), very poor recall ability, processing and comprehension, difficulty finding words and completing thoughts, short term memory is awful.

~I will never give up on myself~

~I run because I can. When I get tired, I remember those who can't run, what they'd give to have this simple gift I take for granted, and I run harder for them...I know they would do the same for me <3
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