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Right temporal lobe. Both my short term and long term memory are gone. My long term is a little better though. I have problems with memory, speaking, cfs, balance basically everything cognitive and nerve related but there's no change is any test, blood work, anything. The problem is is that new symptoms keep arising and getting worse. I'm losing hope that anyone can help.

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Hopefully Mayo can do more detailed investigation in case there is something other doctors missed (a common occurrence based on my experience) in your brain, hormone, autoimmune, or other tests.

Hello...I fully understand that you are losing hope...I had hope for the past year. and just gave up all hope today. Waiting to finally see a Neurologist who is suppose to have run a concussion clinic I went very prepared. I wrote a brief description of what happened because my ability to communicate is all screwed up. I am a young 74 with zero age related health issues. I had a severe concussion where I slammed my face into a heavy glass door then hit the concrete... so hard that I broke my neck at the C-3 level. Whiplash and torn ligaments > I was unconscious for 30-59 minutes. It's been over a year and since that day my blood pressure is out of control. Im taking 9 BP pills a day and on any given day my BP rockets up well over 200....I waited month so see the Neurologist and brought everything in order of tests, reports, scans and a list of symptoms... the man looked at nothing. He said he has never heard of erratic or high blood pressure from a TBI....Honestly??? My primary doctor wanted me to go to Mayo in Rochester. I can not do that as my husband listens to the doctors and says it's all Psychosomatic. I can produce to these doctors what Mayo has online that it is a secondary problem and a serious one. ..I have a small aneurysm that appeared in 22' so I am afraid of having a stroke. I also have body temperature changes, either a fever or I'm freezing. My head feels like it's going to explode the pain is no plain headache. I even have a dent on my forehead and yet they still say it's nothing.....I don't want to end up in some nursing home in a few years because the people are just ignoring me. It's very frustrating. How can a man who is suppose to be an expert in his field say he's never heard of erratic blood pressure being connected to a TBI....It's all over the internet, and I only look at the Mayo Clinic site or the National institute of Health , a government agency....they are killing me slowly and I just don't understand what they have to gain by not being honest......So you are not alone..Is it because we are women??