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The ER doc initially passed me off as a migraine and cleared me to work the following Monday (this was a Saturday). A month later I was finally cleared by my GP. I told him quite pointedly that as I've had migraines for 17 years I know exactly what they feel like - this was not a migraine. My mom was also quick to tell him that I was far from acting like my normal self. He didn't seem to care. Needless to say he won't be receiving a Christmas card from anyone in my family.

Puppeteer-

As you can see, most everyone on this forum had the same type of "treatment" in the ER you did. I was admitted to the ER after an MVA where I was completely stopped and was rear-ended by a teen driver on his junior license who was going 45 miles per hour and never even tapped the breaks, causing me to slam in to a parked truck in front of me. My trunk literally was in my back seat.

At the ER, a CT was conducted and came back with no evidence of damage. I was in and out of consciousness for 2 hours. I was released 5 hours after having been bought in, with a script for pain meds and muscle relaxers and told to follow up with my doctor two days later. I then saw a neurologist who was inept in the understanding of mTBI, which again, anyone here will tell you is quite common. I was fortunate enough to have someone suggest a sports concussion program, which I waited a few months to get into.
Therefore my actual starting of mTBI care was 8 months after my accident. It's now 3 years later and I still am disabled and have a variety of challenges.

I understand your concern about wondering if you missed out on time to rehab.

However, let me be very clear here. I am quite honestly appalled that you think it's your doctor's fault that you are still struggling. Was it your doctor who did drugs all those times? Was it your doctor who continued to drink heavily after having seizure activity and an abnormal CT? Was it your doctor who was clearly making immature decisions that had known consequences? No.

You need to first accept responsibility for you actions. How do you even know for sure that the damage is related to brain injury? Drug use and alcohol abuse are also very toxic for the brain no matter what the age. Have you seen a neurologist in reference to the seizure activity itself? If you have, I'm sure that despite their understanding of mTBI, they would have told you due to seizure activity, you needed to stop abusing drugs and alcohol asap and start making better choices.

Once you stop trying to place blame, you will be able to focus on the real issues here: your symptoms.

Like others here, I would be more than happy to look over your symptoms and help you problem solve and come up with suggestions on how to get you feeling better. That is what we're here for: to help you and support.

I'm sorry if this came off harsh, but its hard for me to be sympathetic to your question of medical negligence, when many of us here held higher stock in our brains and our health, and through no fault of our own, are now dealing with permanent issues. And in most cases, the person at fault has experienced no consequence for our suffering.