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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Can you relate to this?......
Just read the article Mark posted and realized:
3 years ago - Car accident, smashed head on window twice during accident.
2 years ago - Woke up unconscious on a hard supermarket floor.
1 year ago - Woke up unconscious in a clothes shop on a marble floor.
6 month ago - Knocked out playing football.
Each time I awoke it was to paramedics standing over me and I was taken to the ER and checked.
I put the above middle 2 unconsciousness down to a faint. I didn't even consider the impact to my head on the floors as I fainted.
My mum reminded me that when I was taken to hospital after fainting in the shop I had no memory of the day and the hospital staff made out I was exaggerating because I kept crying and asking where I was and who had my car and shopping bags over and over again.
Now I think I am starting to see this is probably all linked.
Can anyone else relate to this?
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I am a 36 yr old female who has played football, as a hobby, for 13 yrs. In July 2012, during a game I was slammed to the floor by two angry guys who hit into me so hard that one of them broke their ribs.
This knocked me back onto hard ground leaving me unconscious. I awoke to chronic head and neck pain, sickness and the inability to see or balance.
The paramedics made me walk to the ambulance, instead of placing me on a spinal board, where I was taken to the ER. I was hospitalised with suspected brain hemorrhage for 1 week, then on complete bed rest for 1 month, in a wheelchair for 2 months.
I have been left with PCS, moderate constant head pain, little short term memory, no memory of the accident, balance and sight problems, depression and exhaustion.
The worst problem is collapsing regularly. This has finally been diagnosed as Hemiplegic Migraines , these cause my brain to regularly shut down when I am tired and I then feel the full effects of a stroke (without the bleed on the brain!!) of which the symptoms last 2-4 days.
I have had 6 CT's, 2 MRI's and am under 3 specialists.
I believe everyday is one more towards improvement. Mainly I believe in the power of acceptance not the weakness of complacency or resignation.
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