Chronic fatigue?

EsthersDoll · 04-17-2012, 11:09 AM

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Originally Posted by PlasticMonkey

Weird seems like today i didnt get that bad of a fatigue and i was still on the computer all day doing what i normally do.
I definitely still got it but nowhere near as bad as yesterdays and the day before.

But i did wake up with a pulled muscle in my back and it hurts pretty bad, when i lean down to pick something up with my left arm there's a really sharp pain and its hard to breathe when i'm sitting in certain ways.

For some reason i still feel really weird too, i still dont feel like myself sometimes like things in the near future still arent going to be okay. I really hate this feeling -.-

The only thing that makes me feel better is talking to my girlfriend and when i think about how early in my recovery i still am, and that i still have plenty of time to get better.

I also just now realized im saying words wrong every once in awhile, or i'll mispronounce words that i dont normally mispronounce. My grammar seems to have gotten a little worse since the accident too, but im just now realizing these symptoms so i shouldnt have much to worry about right?

Those speech issues (plus more speech issues) happened to me too. it used to be worse than it is now. When I'm tired, it still degrades, but even the degradation isn't usually as bad as the worst it's been. Speech therapy helped me a lot with some of the issues I was having. But even the speech therapist told me some of the issues just heal on their own and that's what's been happening. Just give it time and don't sweat the small stuff. Depending on my mood - sometimes the speech errors will make me laugh or get really frustrated that I still have to deal with them after 20 months. C'est la vie.

The people who mind don't matter and the people who matter don't mind.

PlasticMonkey · 04-17-2012, 11:38 AM

LOL yeah, normally when i talk to my girlfriend over a skype call and i mispronounce a word or say something funny, we both die laughing almost every time. (=

I feel it in my gut that im going to make a full recovery, only time will tell. So far im only a little over a month in my recovery so, definitely have time.

GlassHead · 04-17-2012, 04:16 PM

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Originally Posted by Kenjhee

I've considered it, of course, along with other endocrine-related trauma. I can check with my PCP and see what he thinks. One question, kind of general, how would such a deeply located gland be differentially vulnerable to a frontal injury, vs. the rest of the brain?

I am not sure, but I think it has to do with the structure of the gland itself.

It is connected to the hypothalamus via a small thin stalk and the gland itself is like an individual structure sticking out of the brain.

I guess it is very vulnerable to the shearing forces acting on the brain during a concussion, damaging the stalk. It also, ironically enough, looks like a punching bag

Picture of pituituary gland:
http://www.cushings-help.com/images/pituitary.gif

I also just read an article that states that the gland can stop functioning many years after the traumatic event, people should be aware of that:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18780593

-GlassHead

Kenjhee · 04-17-2012, 05:58 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by GlassHead

I am not sure, but I think it has to do with the structure of the gland itself.

It is connected to the hypothalamus via a small thin stalk and the gland itself is like an individual structure sticking out of the brain.

I guess it is very vulnerable to the shearing forces acting on the brain during a concussion, damaging the stalk. It also, ironically enough, looks like a punching bag

Picture of pituituary gland:
http://www.cushings-help.com/images/pituitary.gif

I also just read an article that states that the gland can stop functioning many years after the traumatic event, people should be aware of that:

http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18780593

-GlassHead

Ahh, I like that theory. Plus, I have been pretty much treated like a punching bag most of my life, so it would be an excrutiating analogy!

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