Hello, My name is Bryant and I am a 5th year senior in high school. I am very happy to of come across such a community so that I could share my experiences with other people who are going through the same thing!

What brings me here are 4 major concussions I have sustained over the past 6 years of my high school/middle school football career. I may of had more over my 10 year's of football experience starting in the 4th grade, but none of them seemed very significant compared to a year & 1/2 ago at the beginning of my junior year of football, when I was carried off the field on a stretcher, thought to have a fractured/broken neck along with neurological damage. My neck was fine, but it turned out I had a documented stage three Brain Concussion. Stage 1 being the lightest case, Stage 3 is the closest you can get to irreversible damage that's still considered to be fully recoverable. I then proceeded through my junior year football season on the bench for 8 weeks and then proceeded to finish the final 2 games.

The next year I received 2 concussions 1 after another in 2 consecutive games, which of course finished my football and sports career.

With this said, I am 2 months into the recovery of the last 2 and doing much better! After a lot of discussion I am being treated with an ADD/ADHD drug called Vyvanse which treats a cognitive learning disorder I had prior to the injuries but helps IMMENSELY with the troubles I am facing in my post concussive syndrome(Which has been the last 4 years of my life lol (got to laugh about it to get over it I always say)). Troubles like complete inability to focus.

The effects of my head injuries has caused me the following:

• Suicide Thoughts (Not as many Now!!!)
• noticeable dyslexia when reading or speaking
• Memory Loss
• Very noticeable visual Flashes, streaks, BLUE light smudges <no idea why blue, but blue none the less> all located in my vision
• random head pains/discomfort
• Severe Depression/Anxiety
• Random uncomfortable sensations etc.

I hope my story was not to burdening to read, but I felt like if there's a place to get it out this would be it! If anyone has experienced the same thing or has any information to share I'm totally open! Any ideas for behaviors I could integrate into my lifestyle to improve how I feel, or any advice, I am happy to be here and have much to share!

-Beastlyb
Bryant

Hello and welcome to Neuro Talk, sorry about why you found us, but glad you did. this site is great and is filled with many helpful and kind people, here is a link to the Traumatic Brain Injury and Post Concussion Syndrome forum

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum92.html

do not hesitate in posting your questions or ideas you may have, and welcome again to NT

Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Great to see you have come to be with us. Just let us know if we can be of any help. We are here to assist each other as possible.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around.

Darlene

welcome to neurotalk ... there are lots of friendly and supportive people here so jump right in and start posting ... should you need help, don't hesitate to ask someone ... we are here to help ... again ...

Hello Bryant and welcome to NeuroTalk. Glad you found us, so please take a look around and join in anywhere. You'll find that everyone here is very supportive and helpful. Sounds like this is just the right place for you to be. Take care Bryant!

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