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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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Terrifying experience-support needed please
So July 2012 I had a TBI.
Yesterday I was getting in my car and woke up in the car park on the concrete floor half hr later surrounded by people, 2 of them nurses. I have a condition that causes me to collapse regularly anyway so I thought this was normal. The nurses said my pulse was very slow so they had called an ambulance.
When the ambulance arrived and the paramedics were chatting to me I felt ok and said I would go home. But suddenly I realised some time had lapsed and I wasn't sure what was happening. I agreed to go to hospital.On the way to hospital I was giving my details to one paramedic when I began to feel unwell. My eyes rolled back and a violent long seizure took hold of my body.
The ambulance stopped and called a doctor. I woke up to one paramedic shouting to the other that there was no pulse whilst shoving a tube down my throat. For about 30 seconds I could not breath properly no matter how much oxygen was blasted down my throat. I thought I was going to die. I ripped the tube out and continued fitting. Finally I begged them to not let me die.
I arrived in 'Resus' where they did a CT.This was clear. The seizure was put down to a compact concussion injury. As in compacting on the injury I am already trying to recover from last July. Unlike epilepsy where the episode of the fit is generally forgotten, I remember almost everything. So it is traumatic to say the least. So my medication has been increased to prevent any future collapses. But I do feel the main problem is the exhaustion.
How do you handle exhaustion?
Have you suffered a post concussion seizure that you fully remember, what was it like for you?
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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.
Last edited by peacheysncream; 06-14-2013 at 09:48 AM.
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