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Old 09-27-2012, 10:14 PM #1
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Default Falling Up?

For the past two days, I've had this constant feeling of falling upwards. Sounds pretty crazy, right? It's more noticable when I'm outside....I just feel like I'm gonna fall into the sky lol.

Anyone else experience this?
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What happened: I was randomly assaulted from behind in June of 2011. I was knocked unconscious for an unknown amount of time (less than 30 minutes) and have no memory of the event. CT scan showed contusion and hematoma of the left frontal lobe. I spent 3 days in the hospital. Diagnosed with Post-Concussion Syndrome in September 2011. Currently have Medicaid, Medicare and SSI.

Current symptoms: Brain fog, mild memory issues, problems with spontaneity, occasional spacing out, word finding difficulties, tinnitus in right ear and some other things that I can't explain.

Life after the brain injury: 4 years after the injury, I'm engaged to my beautiful girlfriend of 5 years, I'm the CEO of my own business, Notorious Labs, I've taught myself how to program complex games and apps which is a feat I never thought I'd accomplish and now live a semi-normal life with very mild PCS symptoms.

Slowly but surely regaining my life back.
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I know what you are talking about. I have always discounted it as just strange since it rarely lasts very long. I think it may be a sort of vertigo.
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I think I understand you also.

I used to have what I think everyone has had at times in bed, those little dropsy sensations like falling slipping down in bed.......but thats not it.

I will be lying there and just 'fall up', and the bed will shake, and my wife will wake and ask wth just hit, and I tell her its ok, go back to sleep, Im ok. It passes, Im ok, and go sleep again.

Its like the "wobble' I said I have sometimes when out with my dogs, I will be walking and not have the world go round but fall into myself, and mistep but not lose my balance or anythinng, just whoops, and stand still a moment and it passes, and focus returns and Im ok with the dogs standing there looking at me.

Hope you have good luck with your teeth guy - sadly Medical docs know nothing about dental abcesses, stay with a DmD, he'll do right by you, and take his meds faithfully til he says you don't need more...Oral infections can remain low-grade enough that they do and will cause many central problems in and of themselves, as well as systemic problems.
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Default Me too!

I actually looked on this site specifically to look for a post about this! I think it's a kind of vertigo. I've been having it since this morning, though I was also a little dizzy last night. Now it's really bad. I thought all my physical symptoms were in the past and that I was on my way to recovering, but apparently not. Friday, I was bending over and I got an instantly terrible headache. I had that headache until today, but it's been replaced by this terrible spinning--feeling like you are falling upwards is a good way to put it! I also have ringing in my ears and this feeling of pressure in my face and behind my eyes. I'm just praying it goes away! I'm trying just to rest all day, so as not to aggrevate it. I am definitely not bending over again!
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Re: "this terrible spinning--feeling like you are falling upwards"
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"not have the world go round but fall into myself"
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Yes, one of the 'brain-spinning' experiences that I also experience.
It is for me very highly unsettling, particularly disturbing when in a car. Yet is the same sensation if I am standing, walking or seated.
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Default a type of migraine???

I talked to a friend last night who had several brain injuries years ago, and she suggested that maybe the dizziness I've been experiencing could be a migraine. It's possible. She had migraines that weren't even headaches. She would see smoke, then her words would start to slur, and then she'd start talking jibberish. I had migraines before my head injuries, and they've always been the same for me--I see sparklies, feel weird, then experience a searing brutal pain in my head, usually accompanied by terrible nausea and sensitivity to light. This most recent bout of dizziness, my head does hurt a bit, but not much. Instead, everything looks misty, my peripheral vision is kind of blurred, and then I have that falling upwards feeling. I also do have an increased sensitivity to light. Anyway, I'm feeling somewhat better today, so I'm just continuing my plan of resting, but if I continue to have this dizziness, I'm going to get some migraine meds! Just thought I'd share this possibility with others having the same problem!
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