Hi,
Although my son is fuctioning just as he had before, he every few months or so will wake up with terrible nausea and then it will become diarrhea, sorry to the sqeamish!! I have been curious about it because each time it happened we were in somewhat stressful circumstances, whether visiting family, or exam studying. He recovered from it in a few hours but became exhausted after. Normally, one would think he just got frequent stomach viruses, or had a food allergy but being paranoid now I have been suspicious it is the injury still. There is really nothing to do about it because it does not happen very often but it may be interesting to report.
Nancy

Nancy.... I'd be inclined to agree w/ mother's intuition RE: your son's episodes & the injury. Thankfully he has basically recovered rather well & quickly but seems for many of us, " residuals" of TBI can & do flare...
interesting, you noted this occur for him at stressful times.....

GAYE.... thanks for sharing .....I can indeed relate...
some of my memory problems , besides being frustrating & inconvenient, have bordered on dangerous. mostly w/ "fire" .... mainly cooking--starting something on stove, then a distraction , forgetting what I was doing--till the smoke alarms go off!! I'm trying to stay more w/ microwave but I've "burned" things in it too
I could go on... w/ various memory issues. as well as the emotional ..... some i wish I could forget... like big outburst on THanksgiving .... that basically ruined holiday. (we recouped and had Thanksgiving next day ....

LUCY.... the short? version of "my story" is that I've had multiple TBI's...
several smaller injuries, concussions , mostly from falls-that occur frequently since my first Big TBI --12 years ago-when I was hit by car as a pedestrian in a crosswalk. incurred other injuries that have resulted in chronic pain & other neuro issues w/ PTSD.

a year ago another Big TBI when I was struck in head when hydraulic lift on my father's wheelchair van malfunctioned. Slit open head, knocked me down & out... past year has been up & down, but basically awful w/ PCS & other problems.
.... constant headaches, debilitating fatigue, cognitive dysfuntions.... I could go on (and did at various times in prior posts here--as I struggled w/ various issues and sought understanding ,support and info...about TBI/PCS

I'm grateful for this forum but so sorry for the reasons that have brought all of you special people here...

wishing you all the Best....

Nancy

Please keep a eye on this for him. Also it has been noted in many cases that
ulceratisis colitis and things like that are more seen in cases of anxiety and things. So maybe he needs to really work through what is going on more.

I know though I believe you are right. Mine wasn't so bad for many years, or I'd have sworn it wasn't. It would just flare in a while. And now I"m sure its a combo of both ways. I'm personally glad I'm being more regulated, and its helping so much all things.

I'm also finding it interesting because my middle son has issues. And I'm trying my best to get him to go to a GI doctor. BEcause I believe he has lots of the same things both my oldest son, and now I do. But he also had trauma issues and I now know that his head injuries probably were TBI or
post concussion syndrome. We just had no clue, the headaches he was suffering from were that instead of just migraines. I wish I'd had a clue at the time. It might have made life easier on him.

He got through things, but it took much toll on him.

Donna

I'm positive that it's the Provigil that's been causing the nausea and headaches, because I've only been taking it on Tuesdays and Thursdays now and those days are awful- BUT, I am more alert and the headaches don't start until toward the end of the day.

The nausea I can deal with because that's something I've dealt with for many years with the liver issue.

I'll continue to take the Provigil because of the benefits while I'm in the office. I really feel less self-conscious and more like my old self when I'm on it.

The rest of the days, well, I'll just be the 'new' me.