I got beat up after a night club about 5 and a half weeks ago in malaysia. I dont remember what put me on the floor but I have afeeling someone may have stamped on my head because both sides were bruised. The local hospital threw me out almost immediately probably cos i puked on the doctor, and I was ok till i woke up on day 5 and rolled over for my phone,, the room kept rolling for afew secs. I tried it again with the same effect and my girlfriend took me to hospital. I had act scan which thankfully was clear, They gave me some medication chloporazine or something which helped me when I felt sick and added to my sex life lol. Im an athlete so I stopped taking the medication and the last few weeks have done some swimming some tumble turns lol and some speed work. I just get ringing in my ears most days now and think its to do with some inner ear damage. I was very worried about developing a brain bleed but Ive been told by adoctor I should be in the clear from this unless i get another bang. I wanted to know why my doctor tells me not to push my training ie no skipping or racing. Does it mean im fragile now? If i am fragile how long for? should i worry about this ringing? I sometimes get slight pains in my head and the side of my head still feels tender. Ive never been injured in my life so this taking time gets me down a bit. but i thank God im alive. Patrick

Patrick,

I had a real hard time reading ur post as it was too clustered together. Try making smaller paragraphs.

The ringing in the ears is a common symptom of concussion. Were you diagnosed with PCS?

Just give ur body time with rest. It's the only way ur brain can recover from a traumatic injury.

My best to you,

Kelly

Thanks kelly I will try to make better paragraphs I hope my grammar was ok and the content, please correct any spelling mistakes before my next lesson lol

LOL

Naw I wouldn't notice grammar mistakes these days as I would have before.

But, I do know what ur going thru as I have been a victim of assault too

Hang in there!

As one who has struggled with finding the start of the next line for years, I have found that 5 lines per paragraph is optimum length of a readable paragraph.

A struggle with NT is the line length. Readability studies show that 80 characters is the optimum max line length. NT uses much longer line lengths which make it very difficult for many of us.

Grammar and typos are easy to tolerate. When we can find the start of the next line, we don't have to reread the typos over and over. We don't care about the grammatically correctness of paragraphs.

Somewhat off topic but how do you guys manage to get the text so well presented and literate?

I find I now struggle to compose sentences on the keyboard - took me 45 mins to write 7 lines of text last week in an email last week. 7 months ago prior to my injury it was no problem.

Whatever you do, be very, very careful from now on to never get another head bump. Your brain is much more vulnerable to damage now, and always will be. This includes be sure to avoid damage from alcohol or other recreational drugs, they kill brain cells, too. LAST thing anybody with a head injury needs is to kill off more cells.

I guess you could say your brain is fragile now. Not necessarily that another bump would cause brain bleeding, but it could. The more bumps / damage that happens, the more likely you would be to experience PCS setbacks. The good news is that there can always be improvements - recovery doesn't "stop" at any certain length of time, although it slows down after around a year. Start off an exercise program at a very low level, and slowly build up. Maybe someday you may be able to tolerate running and tumbling, but it could be years. Everyone is different.

Doctor is right, don't push yourself. Probably best to stick to just walking or swimming for now if tolerated / as tolerated. But most of all what is always best when early in your recovery is to just rest, rest, and more rest!

Many thousands of people are walking around with old brain injuries and don't know it ... I was one of them. After going through all the horror with my son's severe TBI and learning all about it, I now realize that the accumulated 3 or 4 very minor and never reported (not even to my mom lol) minor bumps I've had over my lifetime is most likely the root of my tinnitus (ringing in the ears).

It started shortly after the last and worst bump, 6 years ago, and at bump time I merely had a few days of what I now realize were concussion symptoms, a couple weeks of fatigue and fogginess; the first 3 days were just pure misery. I'm resigned now that the tinnitus will most likely be life long ... it's annoying but not so bad I can't ignore it. Really not to worry, you get used to it after a while; and for some people it does go away eventually.

Yes, thank God you're alive! Best wishes.

I do a lot of correcting and editing. Over the years, I have learned many new skills. I have very poor memory function so I use the screen as my memory. It helps to have minimal visual and audio stimulation. With too much stimulation, I struggle to do much at all.

I also have times when I just don't try. If my brain is foggy or I have what I call a 'mud head ache,' I just rest and wait for it to pass.

A mud head ache is when your head feels like it is packed with mud and your thoughts are stuck in the same mud.

btw, After a decade using MSWord for Windows up to Word 6, with ease, I have serious problems trying to use the newer versions. I just can not learn the new toolbar and other features.

So, we may appear to be doing fine but we still have our struggles.

I'm horrified about getting tossed out of a hospital! Even if you puked on a doctor, hey you're a patient! They should have expected puke or blood, Jesus! Remind me not to go to malaysia any time soon!

Haha you made me laugh actually Im not sure if its normal pratice to release patients so soon but they seemed to think I would be ok. Malaysia has good doctors most trained abroad. I actually find their medical care quite good. CT scan cost 90 pound. The people who beat me up were other tourists. I love malaysia it is an amazing country thanks for your concern.