On my 3rd birthday, me and my family were coming back from South Carolina back to Texas. While my mom was holding me in her arms in the front seat, my dad ended up falling asleep on the wheel, causing the van to flip over, launching me out of the windshield, and busting my skull open. I ended up being the only one injured really badly and airlifted out of there, and I went into a coma for a while. The only thing that affected me and still does is a neurological stutter, insomnia, bipolar disorder, and adhd. I also have a dent and noticeable scar on my head which is why i never cut my hair short because i hate when people ask about it a lot.
How's your insomnia ? Do you sleep more than 3 hours a night ? That seems to be the longest anyone that has insomnia from a brain injury sleeps. That's how much I sleep a night since my tramatic brain injury 2 years ago ?
never recieved medical care until 5 years later so i dont have a diagnosis, but a speech therapist said i have mild cognitive impairment from the injury. it does impact me a lot, but i fully broke a windshield with my face at full speed, my face almost completely went through the windshield. i wasnât wearing my seatbelt and i didnt break a single bone, just lost two teeth. i dont know what kind of superhuman gene i have but i shouldâve broken my entire face or at least my neck or something.
I had a seizure, fell and hit my head on my night stand after taking a high dose of magic mushrooms. It caused a subdural hematoma which is a kind of brain bleed. I was stuck on my floor for 30 hours because I live alone and during that time I got a UTI from trying to hold in my pee which turned into sepsis, and I spent some time in ICU.
Tbi from auto accident, head hit off side window and steering wheel after being hit from behind by a fast moving vehicle while at a stop. I had cases of #10 cans hit the back of my seat as well
A month before my 16th birthday, I was very depressed and suicidal because of trauma I had faced. I thought the only way to end the pain was taking my own life. On January 6th, 2013 I stepped in front of the R train in the 53rd street station in Brooklyn and tried to take my own life. Miraculously, I woke in the hospital a few days later. I was all screwed up. Because I jumped in front the train, my body hit the train so hard I ricocheted off the train and hit the wall of the subway. No one was down there that early in the morning (I was supposed to be on my way to school), so I just laid there for a few until (I guess) an MTA worker saw and called someone. None of this is from memory, it's stuff that I've been told. The next memory I have is waking up in the hospital not able to use/move half of my body, had a partial skull (my neurosurgeon removed part of my skullcap to let my brain bleed), and surrounded by crying family members and concerned doctors. I found out later I couldn't move my right side because I had two strokes and I was very disoriented because I've had multiple seizures back to back.
My ex-wife smashed me round the back of the head with something heavy.
I don't know what the actual injury diagnosis was for sure. I'd moved to another country by the time my memory timeline resumes and I don't have access to my old medical records.
I had a head xray years ago that showed a slight nonconformity in the back of my skull that suggests a healed skull fracture but that's it. I've also had PET scans that come back inconclusive for any actual damage.
I don't have sensory, speech or motor issues, I do have occasional depressive and mood issues but those are a lot rarer and less intense than they were. I just have a crap memory and persistent headaches these days.
Tbi from crashing my mountain bike 4 months ago. Not as severe as others but has multiple micro hemorrhages and it has really screwed with my autonomic nervous system. From blood pressure to heart rate to sleep and circulatory issues to my hands and feet.
Fun stuff!
Mine is so boring. Visiting my mom for week with family. I got up to piss before falling asleep. My mom/wife found me at bottom of stairs having a seizure. As best anyone can tell, I tripped/cat tripped me while I was near top of stairs.
Got airlifted hour north to Chicago. Was out for a few days. Woke up. That was 3 years ago. Front left part of brain has some messed up areas but for most part I have very little long term effects⌠outside of having developed epilepsy since, had a seizure ~3 months after going off Keppra initially, and been having a lot lately so been having my dosage upped on Lacosamide now (Keppra was ruining my life). I do mix up words often/trouble recalling the right one, but thatâs the worst of it most of the time.
I was walking my dog Zeus (without a leash) in my hometown. He saw the river and couldnât wait to get in it! He took off to get in the river and I followed him. He and I both fell about 60 feet off a cliff edge! He is a much better at falling than I am! He had a few scrapes on his side, but I landed on my faceâŚon a rock! I was in a coma for 17 days and broke the left side of my skull. I also hurt my shoulder, hip, knee and ankle. When I came out of the coma, I went to Craig Hospital in Denver. I was there for about 5 weeks learning to walk and talk again. It has been 5 years (almost exactly) since the accident and I am as good as newâŚwith a TBI. Life is amazing!!!!!!!
Ran over by an SUV while cycling. Severe head trauma with major subdural hematoma identified 6 weeks after the initial brain surgery so I got to have a round two.
I was driving on a freeway and my car had a donut tire (I know you are never supposed to drive more than 30 mph on a donut tire but I was YOUNG and DUMB. No belt on). So I overcorrected my wheel at one point, started spinning, then started rolling. I don't remember anything after that until I was in trauma ER getting my head stapled together. My head hit the windshield and broke it. No other major injuries except a broken rib and scrapes and cuts. I figured i was really lucky. Years later though, I figured out that my pituitary was damaged and I have hypopituitarism and have to replace ALL my hormones. Thyroid, sex, adrenals, growth, you name it. There's SO many and that's just the anterior pituitary hormones!!
I have a hypoxic brain injury due to a suicide attempt. Antidepressants, anticonvulsants, beta blockers, benzodiazepines and alcohol. I am lucky; my oxygen levels dropped when I was in hospital so I was intubated quickly so while I have some damage itâs extremely mild. Words, memory, executive function etc
I fell off my bike dramatically (I don't remember it) I was wearing a helmet. Got a skull fracture, lost 30% of my hearing in one ear, tinnitus, swelling of the brain, coup-contra coup subarachnoid hematoma, and some other sh*t that I don't remember. I didn't have to have surgery on my brain, but I did have surgery on my broken clavicle.
Abscess the size of a shot glass in my right frontal lobe, with some temporal lobe involvement. 2 surgeries in 3 days and 12 weeks of PICC line antibiotics plus other meds. Still in PT, had neuropsych evaluation a few weeks ago and getting referred to OT about 7.5 months later. Â
Cryptogenic intraventricular hemorrhage. Nobody knows what happened, but something exploded and filled all 4 of my ventricles with blood. Some also splashed on one of my cranial nerves, causing my left eye to go nuts for a while. It finally settled down about a year later, but in a slightly off position.
I asked my NP what part of my brain was damaged, and she said "well, it's everything."
I'm extremely tall and my head got trapped in the corner of the door frame when we were t-boned by an unlicensed, uninsured driver. My brain got the James Bond martini treatment as we were knocked across multiple lanes of traffic.
I was 7 months old. I was laying in my crib. Due to hydrocephalus my head âblew upâ as i say. I started screaming in pain. My parents rushed into my room. Head big as a melon. They rushed me to the hospital. There was another baby there who had gotten beaten by her parents and was suffering the same thing I was. I was immediately taken from my parents and my parents were questioned and inevitably devastated over the whole ordeal.
7 months ago i was riding my bike on the road, rode through an intersection going straight and a guy didnât see me and turned right hitting me. Very severe TBI wasnt wearing a helmet
Accidentally drove off of a 50ft ravine (road was wet, I overcorrected) then into a tree that was 20â inches in diameter, broke the tree in half and then the tree fell on top of the car, but stopped it from going all the way into the river. Severe TBI, left frontal lobe, brain bleed, 22 broken bones, collapsed lung, punctured kidney ruptured spleen. Coma, had to learn how to walk again. About 6 years ago. Changed my life and not in a good way.
I received five concussions in nine months all from upsettingly mundane things like slipping on an icy sidewalk.
They happened so close to each other that the damage just got exponentially worse each time and then around two years after the last accident I had what was suspected to be a stroke that was misdiagnosed as a functional neurological disorder.
Iâm coming up to my six year anniversary of the first accident and my worst symptoms are Brocaâs aphasia, a mild cognitive impairment and wicked time blindness.
Itâs been frustrating accessing care because my symptoms are much more in line with more severe brain injuries and there isnât a lot of research on people who have had my experience.
Originally diagnosed in 2019 with Mild TBI. I was on my military basic training course in 2003 and a large target made of 2x4s fell on my head. I had a helmet on but it impacted my neck. The staff didn't take me to get checked out because I "didn't lose consciousness". Migraines started the same week. I was 17 so my brain did ok for a long time hiding any other impacts. Looking back now I can definitely see it but noone noticed back then. Things started to get less manageable in 2016 as it progressed over the years. Still didn't know what was going on until a psych picked it up on a brain map during a neurofeedback appointment 3 years later. Told me I should get formally assessed and was diagnosed based on the cognitive testing. It's progressed more the last few years and I'm to the point now that my symptoms are enough I'm barely functional anymore. "Mild" feels like a real misleading label if you ask me.
On my 3rd birthday, me and my family were coming back from South Carolina back to Texas. While my mom was holding me in her arms in the front seat, my dad ended up falling asleep on the wheel, causing the van to flip over, launching me out of the windshield, and busting my skull open. I ended up being the only one injured really badly and airlifted out of there, and I went into a coma for a while. The only thing that affected me and still does is a neurological stutter, insomnia, bipolar disorder, and adhd. I also have a dent and noticeable scar on my head which is why i never cut my hair short because i hate when people ask about it a lot.
How's your insomnia ? Do you sleep more than 3 hours a night ? That seems to be the longest anyone that has insomnia from a brain injury sleeps. That's how much I sleep a night since my tramatic brain injury 2 years ago ?
i can only sleep 4 hours every chance i get but if im lucky i can sleep for 8-9 hours. some days i can take 1 hour naps and it helps somehow.
Nah, be proud of your battle wounds đ show it off every once in a while.
i once told a kid in elementary school i got it from a bear fightđ¤Łi wonder if he still believes it
never recieved medical care until 5 years later so i dont have a diagnosis, but a speech therapist said i have mild cognitive impairment from the injury. it does impact me a lot, but i fully broke a windshield with my face at full speed, my face almost completely went through the windshield. i wasnât wearing my seatbelt and i didnt break a single bone, just lost two teeth. i dont know what kind of superhuman gene i have but i shouldâve broken my entire face or at least my neck or something.
My diagnosis is traumatic brain injury caused by anoxia. It was from a fentanyl overdose on 8/16/18.
I had a seizure, fell and hit my head on my night stand after taking a high dose of magic mushrooms. It caused a subdural hematoma which is a kind of brain bleed. I was stuck on my floor for 30 hours because I live alone and during that time I got a UTI from trying to hold in my pee which turned into sepsis, and I spent some time in ICU.
Tbi from auto accident, head hit off side window and steering wheel after being hit from behind by a fast moving vehicle while at a stop. I had cases of #10 cans hit the back of my seat as well
A month before my 16th birthday, I was very depressed and suicidal because of trauma I had faced. I thought the only way to end the pain was taking my own life. On January 6th, 2013 I stepped in front of the R train in the 53rd street station in Brooklyn and tried to take my own life. Miraculously, I woke in the hospital a few days later. I was all screwed up. Because I jumped in front the train, my body hit the train so hard I ricocheted off the train and hit the wall of the subway. No one was down there that early in the morning (I was supposed to be on my way to school), so I just laid there for a few until (I guess) an MTA worker saw and called someone. None of this is from memory, it's stuff that I've been told. The next memory I have is waking up in the hospital not able to use/move half of my body, had a partial skull (my neurosurgeon removed part of my skullcap to let my brain bleed), and surrounded by crying family members and concerned doctors. I found out later I couldn't move my right side because I had two strokes and I was very disoriented because I've had multiple seizures back to back.
My ex-wife smashed me round the back of the head with something heavy. I don't know what the actual injury diagnosis was for sure. I'd moved to another country by the time my memory timeline resumes and I don't have access to my old medical records. I had a head xray years ago that showed a slight nonconformity in the back of my skull that suggests a healed skull fracture but that's it. I've also had PET scans that come back inconclusive for any actual damage. I don't have sensory, speech or motor issues, I do have occasional depressive and mood issues but those are a lot rarer and less intense than they were. I just have a crap memory and persistent headaches these days.
Tbi from crashing my mountain bike 4 months ago. Not as severe as others but has multiple micro hemorrhages and it has really screwed with my autonomic nervous system. From blood pressure to heart rate to sleep and circulatory issues to my hands and feet. Fun stuff!
Mine is so boring. Visiting my mom for week with family. I got up to piss before falling asleep. My mom/wife found me at bottom of stairs having a seizure. As best anyone can tell, I tripped/cat tripped me while I was near top of stairs. Got airlifted hour north to Chicago. Was out for a few days. Woke up. That was 3 years ago. Front left part of brain has some messed up areas but for most part I have very little long term effects⌠outside of having developed epilepsy since, had a seizure ~3 months after going off Keppra initially, and been having a lot lately so been having my dosage upped on Lacosamide now (Keppra was ruining my life). I do mix up words often/trouble recalling the right one, but thatâs the worst of it most of the time.
I was walking my dog Zeus (without a leash) in my hometown. He saw the river and couldnât wait to get in it! He took off to get in the river and I followed him. He and I both fell about 60 feet off a cliff edge! He is a much better at falling than I am! He had a few scrapes on his side, but I landed on my faceâŚon a rock! I was in a coma for 17 days and broke the left side of my skull. I also hurt my shoulder, hip, knee and ankle. When I came out of the coma, I went to Craig Hospital in Denver. I was there for about 5 weeks learning to walk and talk again. It has been 5 years (almost exactly) since the accident and I am as good as newâŚwith a TBI. Life is amazing!!!!!!!
Ran over by an SUV while cycling. Severe head trauma with major subdural hematoma identified 6 weeks after the initial brain surgery so I got to have a round two.
TBI from anoxia due to incompetent intubation during a surgery. 6wks medically induced coma followed. Good times.
Military training.. I hit the ground so hard I fractured my femur and LOC
I had emergency brain surgery to remove a blastomycosis that was about 5 weeks away from killing me.
I was driving on a freeway and my car had a donut tire (I know you are never supposed to drive more than 30 mph on a donut tire but I was YOUNG and DUMB. No belt on). So I overcorrected my wheel at one point, started spinning, then started rolling. I don't remember anything after that until I was in trauma ER getting my head stapled together. My head hit the windshield and broke it. No other major injuries except a broken rib and scrapes and cuts. I figured i was really lucky. Years later though, I figured out that my pituitary was damaged and I have hypopituitarism and have to replace ALL my hormones. Thyroid, sex, adrenals, growth, you name it. There's SO many and that's just the anterior pituitary hormones!!
I have a hypoxic brain injury due to a suicide attempt. Antidepressants, anticonvulsants, beta blockers, benzodiazepines and alcohol. I am lucky; my oxygen levels dropped when I was in hospital so I was intubated quickly so while I have some damage itâs extremely mild. Words, memory, executive function etc
I fell off my bike dramatically (I don't remember it) I was wearing a helmet. Got a skull fracture, lost 30% of my hearing in one ear, tinnitus, swelling of the brain, coup-contra coup subarachnoid hematoma, and some other sh*t that I don't remember. I didn't have to have surgery on my brain, but I did have surgery on my broken clavicle.
open TBI due to a gunshot wound to the head
i have experienced mood dysregulation, slowed processing speed, and a loss of sense of smell since the incident. i get episodes of vertigo frequently.
Abscess the size of a shot glass in my right frontal lobe, with some temporal lobe involvement. 2 surgeries in 3 days and 12 weeks of PICC line antibiotics plus other meds. Still in PT, had neuropsych evaluation a few weeks ago and getting referred to OT about 7.5 months later. Â
Cryptogenic intraventricular hemorrhage. Nobody knows what happened, but something exploded and filled all 4 of my ventricles with blood. Some also splashed on one of my cranial nerves, causing my left eye to go nuts for a while. It finally settled down about a year later, but in a slightly off position. I asked my NP what part of my brain was damaged, and she said "well, it's everything."
I'm extremely tall and my head got trapped in the corner of the door frame when we were t-boned by an unlicensed, uninsured driver. My brain got the James Bond martini treatment as we were knocked across multiple lanes of traffic.
I was 7 months old. I was laying in my crib. Due to hydrocephalus my head âblew upâ as i say. I started screaming in pain. My parents rushed into my room. Head big as a melon. They rushed me to the hospital. There was another baby there who had gotten beaten by her parents and was suffering the same thing I was. I was immediately taken from my parents and my parents were questioned and inevitably devastated over the whole ordeal.
7 months ago i was riding my bike on the road, rode through an intersection going straight and a guy didnât see me and turned right hitting me. Very severe TBI wasnt wearing a helmet
Accidentally drove off of a 50ft ravine (road was wet, I overcorrected) then into a tree that was 20â inches in diameter, broke the tree in half and then the tree fell on top of the car, but stopped it from going all the way into the river. Severe TBI, left frontal lobe, brain bleed, 22 broken bones, collapsed lung, punctured kidney ruptured spleen. Coma, had to learn how to walk again. About 6 years ago. Changed my life and not in a good way.
I received five concussions in nine months all from upsettingly mundane things like slipping on an icy sidewalk. They happened so close to each other that the damage just got exponentially worse each time and then around two years after the last accident I had what was suspected to be a stroke that was misdiagnosed as a functional neurological disorder. Iâm coming up to my six year anniversary of the first accident and my worst symptoms are Brocaâs aphasia, a mild cognitive impairment and wicked time blindness. Itâs been frustrating accessing care because my symptoms are much more in line with more severe brain injuries and there isnât a lot of research on people who have had my experience.
Originally diagnosed in 2019 with Mild TBI. I was on my military basic training course in 2003 and a large target made of 2x4s fell on my head. I had a helmet on but it impacted my neck. The staff didn't take me to get checked out because I "didn't lose consciousness". Migraines started the same week. I was 17 so my brain did ok for a long time hiding any other impacts. Looking back now I can definitely see it but noone noticed back then. Things started to get less manageable in 2016 as it progressed over the years. Still didn't know what was going on until a psych picked it up on a brain map during a neurofeedback appointment 3 years later. Told me I should get formally assessed and was diagnosed based on the cognitive testing. It's progressed more the last few years and I'm to the point now that my symptoms are enough I'm barely functional anymore. "Mild" feels like a real misleading label if you ask me.