Hi my name is Jeff, new to this forum and I'm looking for information on TBI.

Hi Jeff. I am quite new here, but I have read just about everything that everybody had posted and a lot of the recommended links as well. I have learnt a lot in a very short time. Well as much as a person with a learning disability can digest. Look forward to hearing your story.

To Lucy THANK YOU for the post. I was hit buy a drunk driver 4 year ago and experinced TBI and PCS as a result of the truma to the head. No fun losing your idenity and your ability to work or function. It's been a long slow healing process. I'm improving slowly and now it's time to find other people who have had the same type of truma so that I can learn to function as the person a I am today. I'm strating to understand the system of his disorder and looking for new ways to manage there effects on my personality.I do understand that the neuro transmitters in the brain will create new path ways to process information and that is kind of where I'm at today creating the new path ways in the brain

Unfortently people who do not or have not experinced a truma to the brain do not understand so I'm having to learn new ways to communacate and that why I'm here, Jeffn

Jeffn,
How much better are you in 4 years and what neurological deficits do you still have now? Are you able to live a pretty good existance or are you very challenged? Tell us more!

Thank you for the replie Nancy, yes there are still challenges as each brain is different and each injury is also different and it is my understand that the brain well heal it self in it's own time and that it is a slow process.

Some of the symptoms I deal with is I still get upset and angery over non sence that would have never upset me before I was injuried. This is some thing I will have to learn to manage. I think I read in this forum about taking a time out when this happens so I'm implementing that into my healing process.

Last year I went through some very difficult migrain headaches for almost a year no fun. I take imitrex for the headacches and it seem to help.

Stress seems to bring on the headaches so I try to manage that as best I can some days you win and some days you don't.

My brain still flat lines where I can not process information in of out and I still have lag times between my long term memory and the cognitive part of my thinking processes.

I have to accept the reality that that old self is gone and work on rebuilding the new self. I believe that the brain will heal it's self but it take time and we may have to learn how to do life a little differently then before.

Thankful to be alive and yes there are day's that are hard but this to shall pass . I'm trying to learn and grow so that I can function as best I can each day. Some day's I have to ask for help and there seems to be someone willing to help you to get back on your feet again. Jeff

PS I think I read a post in regards to your son ?

Jeff

You are doing lots it sounds like. I think you are doing wonderfully.

I have post concussion syndrome. And have just past my first year.

I also have abnormalities in my brain that I had diagnosed in May
that I have had all my life. So I'm retraining my brain how to do
lots of things so that I wont fall as much, and will learn how to
do many things not to be a hazard to myself. I have some cognitive
things that I still have trouble with too. But thankfully many of
them get help from my Physical therapy.

I've also had to stop my PT at present to deal with my shoulder and
feet. Seems if its not one thing its another. I just seem to share with
my whole body.

Donna