[Ceniels]

Dear everyone,

I recently arrived at this forum and it has been encouraging to read everyone's stories of recovery.

I'd like to share my own story and concerns in this post.

Around August 5th, 2014, I passed out in the bathroom and apparently ended up hitting the back of my head on the toilet seat. I suffered from sensitivity to noises, unsteady gait, and general trembling, but I was alright cognitively.

On October 23rd, 2014, I suddenly stood up quickly from a sitting position in the kitchen and hit my head, hard, on an open cabinet on top of me.
I noticed within the next few hours and days that the speed of my thoughts dropped severely, and my memory became extremely poor.

This is followed by a few more unfortunate and slight bumps of the head, leading to the symptoms I have now.

I felt like I was on the way to recovery until a few days ago. I accidentally got my temple area stuck between a hard door and the doorframe for several seconds; this led to a hard throbbing in my temples, and a pulsing feeling throughout my head and forehead especially.

Right now, among numerous other symptoms, I'm struggling with the following symptoms:

• Extremely slow thoughts and poor memory
• Trembling body
• Body moving from the left to right by itself
• High sensitivity to noises
• Nearly unable to feel emotions
• Personality has disappeared for the most part
• Unsteady Gait/Walking like a drunk person

I had been treating myself beforehand with as much cognitive and physical rest as possible.
This, along with omega-3 fish oils, multivitamins, ginkgo biloba, and the Nootropic "Noopept".
The noopept had been a big help in recovering my cognitive skills.

Do any of you have suggestions for what I can do about the damage to my temples? I'm not sure which doctor to see, or if anything can be done to help it. It clearly worsened my concussion symptoms;
My thoughts became even more simple and slow than they were before, and I've lost what ability I had to feel emotions.

However, what concerns me the most is that because the "temporal arteries" supply blood to the brain, and extra brain damage could possibly be occurring constantly - a different sort of damage than what a concussion alone might do.

I had seen two neurologists here in South Korea about the concussions before; the first one basically brushed me off and referred me to a Psychiatrist. The second one took more time to investigate. However, he wanted me to quit all Psychiatric drugs (anti-depressants, anti-anxiety medicines) to find the "real cause" for these symptoms.

Thank you for taking the time to read this. Any replies at all would be warmly welcomed.

[Mark in Idaho]

Ceniels,

Welcome to NeuroTalk.

I agree with the doctor who suggested quitting the psychiatric meds to see how you do without them. Or, at least find a way to rule them out. What meds are you taking ?

You complain of cognitive problems but say the Noopept has helped you recover your cognitive skills. I'm confused.

Do you have access to a Rehabilitative Medicine specialist ?