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Hi....luckily after suffering for a year and a half, taking my BP three times a day and keeping a record of each reading, my cardiologist would just have his PA send a message saying "Take another Clonidine". I was up to a mixture of 9 BP pills a day and my BP was still well over 200. Of course I worried mainly about having a stroke, but I was getting nowhere. Up until my accident my BP was in the 130's of which I also kept a record every day, they said I had stage 3 kidney disease so they were trying to get the readings even lower. So I knew exactly when it would top 200 that it was from the TBI. I went one day with my husband to see his cardiologist, funny thing, he is in the same office as my doctor who was just pushing the Clonidine. I mentioned to his nurse my issues and she said the other doctor was a high BP specialist. He took over my care. Put me on 3 pills a day (down from 9) and in less then a week my numbers came right down. I still suffer daily from head pain behind my left ear. I was diagnosed from the TBI with my eyes being out of sync with each other, who knew that was a thing. I also have something called "Abnormal Auditory Perception". I misunderstand when people speak to me. Something called "Convergence Insufficiency" and "Abnormal Optokintic Response." And they had more test to be done. They want $27,000. to treat me. I'm 75....I'll pass on that. My Neurologist confirmed that I do not have memory loss from old age, dementia or Alzheimers. It's all from the TBI. So I just let people think I'm a nutty old lady, I do not look 75....so most people when I speak think I'm just plain nuts!