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Adult Life after a Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI)
Traumatic Brain Injury (TBI) | Last Active: Dec 3 3:08pm | Replies (187)Comment receiving replies
Hullo Dawn
I totally empathise with your experience. I had a similar experience my self and my symptoms were loss of short term memory, loss of balance, eyes that found it a major effort to open... and muddled speech. My brain often felt very foggy. I also had to give up my career.
What I found - 14 years after the RTA when I was knocked back to the kerb and the base of my skull and top of my neck hit the edge of the kerb like a "karate chop" - was Hyperbaric Oxygen which is oxygen under pressure. It was developed as a therapy for deep sea divers and after many years has helped people with M.S and head injuries. Perhaps the Mayo Clinic will have some experience of this therapy.
What is helping me - is writing it all down for my family - so that they understand exactly how I felt straight after the car accident and how I have felt through the years.
One set of symptoms that I have not read about anywhere - is that when I was floating between being unconscious and "coming to" was that I had absolutely no pain or sensation of my body even though I also had a broken leg and shoulder-blade . I also had no active movement so could not open my eyes BUT the strange symptom that I also had was that I COULD HEAR now and again! I heard people talking and heard..... "Someone get her a blanket she must be freezing cold " and " Don't lift her like that she might have a broken neck".... which I did have though luckily only a hairline fracture. I heard someone saying " You've been knocked down by a car " but was not taking this information into my brain as I thought I was still in my bed!!! The only feeling I had was of the soft bed I was lying in!!!
I am looking into nutritional support for my brain . it is much easier to deal with a broken arm or leg!!
Over time it is amazing how some parts of the injured brain heal... otherwise I could not write this post as I now find learning new skills very difficult.
I HOPE THIS HELPS
cLAIRE
Replies to "Hullo Dawn I totally empathise with your experience. I had a similar experience my self and..."
1. water therapy:pools
2. LLT: red light therapy for TBI>
Dear Lakelifelady what a lovely healing name.
I feel for you and the symptoms you are having.
When I was knocked down I was already interested in alternative therapies and a lady who lived nearby suggested I trey some homeopathic remedies for the shock, and then suggested I read through the Homeopathic " bible " reading the description of the remedy and considering if any part of the description of the remedy described how I felt or reacted in day to day happenings or people or the weather... or anything and I ploughed thro the book very slowly as my energy was very poor... then I decided it was definately interesting so I found a very experienced homeopath and went to have a two hour interview.... and he prescribed a few remedies.
So my first suggestion if you think it is of any interest is to find a well known and highly respected homeopath near where you live.
I agree with ujeeniack warm water therapy and red light therapy ( is this Far Infrared ? )
Gentle supportive therapies
and collecting a rainbow of coloured "things " pottery, paintings, stones, cryatals painting sof blue seas and coloured fruit colour also helps
and deep gentle breathing and visualising a healthy "you" walking in the colours... especially the blue water!
Be well
Kobeelya
Kobeelya, Since I do water colors the part of visualizing the colors is wonderful. We live in a retirement community in the winter which has warm pools everywhere....I will look into your other ideas also. I good friend is now taking training in Rikki and other homeopathic venues and she has offered to help me as her training subject....which I am certain can do no harm. Thank you.
Thank you for sharing!
Dawn
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Every time I read about the experiences of others who "know and understand" TBI gives me courage and validation.. I still need to find a way to help myself walk wiwthout balance problems, tightness and pain in my shoulders, a foggy brain, dizziness and fatigue as a start. Add to that the gap that never has healed together in my broken neck and the resulting muscle fatigue in my shoulders and arms when sitting in a chair holding music or a book brings on much pain and just writing all of this here ( which is therapeutic in itself) brings on tearfulness and sometimes even a flash back of horror of the accident. So, keep writing dear friends....I will keep trying myself.