Have you ever had a concussion? What was your experience?
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Cognitive dysfunction is common after a concussion.  (I have had several - 3 different car accidents, and one high school sports injury).  These should be taken very seriously.  \n\nA concussion is literally an injury to the brain.  It can take weeks to sometimes years to 'appear to fully recover' from a concussion.  However, medical research has shown that even after the patient feels 'completely normal', there has been some permanent loss of brain capacity.  This can be minimized by prompt and proper treatment.\n\nThe reason symptoms tend not to start until a day or two after the injury may be explained by the following.  The initial injury can damage some of the brain's cells.  These cells, if damaged enough, will recognize their damage and choose to commit a form of 'cell suicide' called Apoptosis.  Apoptosis is a mechanism damaged cells use to kill themselves 'as safely as possible'.  If the cell dies through other mechanisms, it causes the release of many damaging chemicals from the cells which then damage and kill surrounding cells.  This process 'spreads' the damage to uninjured cells.  Strokes are well known to spread damage in the brain by this process.\n\nTreatment?  The spread of damage by the dying off of the injured cells can be moderated by high levels of Antioxidants.  Antioxidants include nutritional substances such as:  Vitamin C, Vitamin E, Zinc, Selenium, Bioflavanoids, Lipoic Acid and Glutathione/NAC (NAC is a supplement of N-Acetyl-Cysteine which the body converts into glutathione).\n\nI would recommend you get to your local health food store and pick up a good quality 'Antioxidant' supplement and have your son take the maximum dosage every two hours (while awake).  I would also suggest he take extra Vitamin C (as much as he can tolerate without developing diarrhea).\n\nIf the supplement you get does not contain Lipoic acid and NAC, get these separately.  Again, take the maximum doses every two hours.\n\nLastly, I would take a quality mutlivitamin/mineral supplement.  "Nutrients work in Harmony" and a 'muliti' will help ensure all the nutrients needed for optimal healing are present.\n\nLast note:  Medical research shows an increased risk for long-term brain problems like Alzheimer's disease result from even mild concussions.  So, take seriously your son's injury, even if the medical doctor does not.\n\nBest wishes and good luck.\n\nP.S. I would also like to suggest an excellent book by one of the world's top Neurologists - David Perlmutter, M.D.  He is a recent recipient of the Linus Pauling Award in Medicine and teaches large numbers of medical doctors throught the U.S. about nutritional needs for brain problems.  The book is called:  "The Better Brain Book".  It is available at Amazon.com.
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I have, it scared the s*** out of me!  I woke up from a nap and could hear my husband and kids downstairs and couldn't move my body.  My brain was fully alert and I tried to holler to my husband because I was scared to death and I couldn't even do that.  I eventually convinced myself that I was still sleeping and having a bad dream...I must have drifted off because when I woke up again I was fine.  That is bizzare enough in itself.
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after head injury, you may continue to have headache (post-concussion headache) & dizziness.\nthis will resolve with time although it may take several months.\neven if you had a skull fracture, its not important as long as there was no bleeding into the brain as showed by CT-scan.\nyou are lucky you didnt have any brain injury or seizures.\nits a good practice to check for any associated neck injury (cervical spine injury) as this may contribute to the headache..\nI hope you will get over it soon.
757774
i'm going to have to say, besides that car wreck when i was younger that ended up burning my sisters car and my doll...it would have to be when i myself rolled a car eleven times around a corner, my doctor had just adjusted my mental meds and well, i shouldn't have had operated heavy machinery.\n..that would have to be the worst of them all, i'm unlucky when it comes to driving, i am the reason why when you see me driving down the road, you had better stay off of the sidewalks!! lmao\n\n\noh and nothing to major happened, i just had the left side of my forehead cracked open...alot of blood...a concussion, ripped the muscles in my right arm and my right shoulder blade,nothing to deadly or else i wouldn't be here..
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I was run over by a car when I was 11 years old.  I was completely pinned under the car.  I could not move at all.  I had my life go before my eyes as I watched the tire proceed to come towards my head.  The tire would have run over my head.  I had nothing left so I cried out for Jesus to save me.  Jesus did save me under that car.  I was moved even though I could not move.   All that I suffered were 3rd degree scrapes.  I nearly had a whole through my cheek.  At the hospital the doctor had to pick stones out of my face.  I walked away and my wounds healed in 3 months.  I barely have a scar today.  I have just enough of a scar to remind me that Jesus saved me.\n\nI have also seen the child of a family friend who fell out of a tree and got caught by his neck between two branches.  This kid died in that tree.  He was pronounced as being dead for more than 20 minutes at the scene.  He was dead when they took him out of the tree.  It was prayer by his mother (a Christian) to Jesus  that resurrected him.  This kid did have brain damage.  But the last that I heard he was learning how to walk again and he was getting high 90's in school.  I have talked with him about his miracle.  His name is Michael.\n\nDoctors say that if you are braindead for more than 12 minutes you will be a vegetable even if they can revive your body.
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I don't think there is such a thing as getting a stronger chin because it's not your chin but your brain rattling around in your head. \nI've had alot of concussion's from fighting and playing football but never lost a fight because of it, just don't remember it. \nMy friends would tell me about the fight a few days afterwards, I didn't like being like that though because I could control myself normally but not when I had a concussion so I was scared I'd kill someone.
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Simple answer YES.\nI came off a horse and was knocked unconscious for 3 days.\n2 weeks after leaving hospital I had a really bad accident and suffered liver damage plus all the skin on my face peeled off.\n4 weeks after that I was in a car accident and broke my leg, collar bone, broke my nose and again was unconscious for 4 days.\nDoes my story qualify?
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I love it when someone asks me this question!  I mean, the fact that I'm just alive today is Miracle Enough for me but I had an experience that I'll never forget and no one can explain.\n\nI was in Lake Tahoe, at the time, driving back to a friend's house after a trip to the hardware store.  It had started to snow pretty heavily, and once I got off the main roads there was patchy ice in-between the drifts that had begun to blow across the road.  In my rear-view mirror, I saw at least 3 cars following behind me, which made me nervous and I thought about slowing to let them pass me but decided against it because I didn't want anyone to think I was stopping in need of help, so I kept driving.  \n\nBasically, I was heading up a good incline (I was in the mountains, understand) and at one point there was a good hair-pin turn where I had to go up on one side and down a steep hill on the other.  There were steep banks on either side of the road in some places and there was only one road to turn-off at at the top of the hill; no other routes to go, except to the right on that road (taking one further up the hill) or the sharp curve to the left (down the other side of the hair-pin).  \n\nAt the bottom of this hill, I glanced in my rear-view mirror and regretted not having the other cars pass me and regretted not putting my truck in 4-wheel drive before leaving the hardware store.  I briefly asked God to just get me home safely and help me to concentrate on driving.  I eased up on the gas at the top of the hill before heading down the other side and immediately, I felt the back end of my truck, continuing to slide in the opposite direction of the turn.  Of course, I tried to correct and that made it worse.  I was sliding back and forth across the road, completely out of control.  \n\nI remember just letting go of the steering wheel, and calling out, "Jesus, help me!"  \n\nThe car continued to spin.  I have no idea how I stayed out of the trees and the steep hills on either side of the road, but suddenly, the car stopped moving and I realized I was at the bottom of the hill, in the opposite lane, facing back in the direction I'd come from.  \n\nI remember wondering when the other cars were going to crash into me and then I realized it was just quiet.  The car had stalled and it was just completely quiet.  The snow was still falling heavily and I looked up the hill I had just come down and saw where my car had dug up the dirt and sprayed it off into the white snow on both sides of the road.  I'd somehow covered pretty much the whole road on my way down.  There were no other cars in sight, from either direction.  \n\nI thought it was a miracle that the cars following me were all heading up the road at the top of the hill instead of down the side I'd gone.  I started up the car and realized that the safest way for me to turn back around would be for me to go back up the hill and turn around where the road was wider for the turn-off.  When I got to the top of the hill, however, and turned onto the road where I was going to turn around, I realized that there were no tire-tracks on the road - fresh or old.  \n\nThe road hadn't been driven on at all, since the snow had started.  I turned around in a driveway and there was still no sign of anyone having been in the area.  And when I got back down to the bottom of the hill I'd nearly gone off, I was making fresh tracks in that snow.  Somehow, God had caused those cars behind me to disappear completely.  \n\nEvery time I tell this story, I know it had to have been a miracle because I'm telling the God's Honest Truth and even I don't believe it.  I often try to figure out how it happened and I just can't explain it.\n\nWhen I got back to his house, my friend told me I looked like I'd seen a ghost.  I said, "No but, apparently, I've been in the presence of an angel," and I told him what happened.  After the snow let up,
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Going to sleep won't kill you after a concussion but if you are sleeping then nobody will be able to tell if your condition is getting worse.  The danger is severe head trama can cause swelling in the brain.  symptoms may get progressively worse as time goes by...if your symptoms are getting worse, go to the ER immediately.  vision problems and confusion can be indicatiors.\n\nhitting your head can lead to a concussion.\n\nIf you are in doubt get it checked out immediately
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Did you hit your head? Any possible broken bones, internal injuries.  Yes, I would say you should go to a doctor to make sure everything is operating normally.
197036
Sometimes yes, sometimes no... I believe that a lot of pro-sports players will permanently lose a segment of memory of the event that caused a concussion. Amnesia can also be due to stress / shock - so you may get that memory back when you deal with the fear that is blocking the memory.\n\nSo: answer = it depends on what caused the damage, and how severe the damage is, and how good your body is at fixing itself.
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Any head injury should always be treated as serious, and should seek medical attention immediately, even if been unconscious briefly.\n\nSymptoms and signs of head injury\nHistory of injury (how it happened)\nLoss of memory (particularly of event)\nHeadache\nBlurred vision\nAltered/abnormal responses\nWounds to scalp/face\nBlood/clear fluid from eyes or ears\nPupils unequal in size.\n\nManagement of Head injury\n- Reassure casualty\n- Manage as if unconscious\n- Support head and neck during movement\n- If face badly injured, keep airway open \n- Control bleeding; do not apply direct pressure to skull if fractured\n- Blood or fluid from ear - cover lightly with sterile dressing\nturn on injured side down\n- nausea\n- vomiting\n\nSEEK MEDICAL AID URGENTLY.\n\nPost concussion\nThinking and behavioural disorders such as: memory, mood, attention, concentration, depression, fatigue, headaches and visual problems, can follow a concussion, and can last some months.
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First thing is to make sure there is no major fracture. Generally you KNOW if there is a major fracture. The skull will be sunken in at some point. \n\nPrimarily the Docs are worried about internal bleeding or clotting.  If there is blood spilling into the the skull itself. This causes lethal pressure on the brain that has to be relieved to prevent perm damage and clotting which causes essentially a stroke.  \n\n# Moderate to severe head injury (requires immediate medical attention):\n\nI've had several concussions in my lifetime.  It takes months to fully heal up from one. If it is a child playing a competitive sport a concussion prob means the end of the season for them or should. A good knock on the head is different from a concussion. I've had lots of good knocks on the head. A day or two later it might be sore where I got hit but everything else is fine. With a concussion things will seem strange. Sensory inputs may feel blurred or like they are coming from far far away. Reactions and thought processes are much slower. For a few days they may seem lethargic. Strong headaches will come periodically. Vision may be not quite right. The worst is over in a few weeks but some mild symtoms will usually persist for a few months. \n\nWatch for these signs. Especially the pupils, bleeding into eyes, ears noses, Severe headache. Obviously if thier have siezures you'll take them to the hospital.  Unless the Docs see this or they are being overly cautious that's all they'll do. Send you home with a list like this and say come back if any of these symtoms happen. \n\n    * loss of consciousness\n    * blurred vision\n    * severe headache\n    * vomiting\n    * loss of short-term memory, such as difficulty remembering the events that lead right up to and through the traumatic event\n    * slurred speech\n    * difficult walking\n    * dizziness\n    * weakness in one side or area of the body\n    * sweating\n    * pale skin color\n    * seizures\n    * behavior changes including irritability\n    * blood or clear fluid draining from the ears or nose\n    * one pupil (dark area in the center of the eye) looks larger than the other eye\n    * deep cut or laceration in the scalp\n    * open wound in the head\n\nIf you get these symptoms get themt to the doc ASAP.
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The dizziness and headaches are normal, a concussion is basically saying that your brain has been "shook" and could be slightly swollen. If you start to throw up, or if your eyes are dialated and stay that way, call the DR  RIGHT AWAY!
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I would. It almost sounds like you may have a concussion. At the very least, you caused trauma to a very crucial part of the body and need to have it checked out for brusing, swelling, or hairline fractures.
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When I was young I was hit by a car and landed on my head. When I was a teen I went off a jump with my bike, landed on my head and split my skull open. And when I was nearing 20 me and 2 friends ran a car into a telephone pole and I sprained my neck and broke my nose when I hit the windshield. That last one probably hurt the most.
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Yes, I was running accross the street in a pouring rain. When a black car came out from behind a stationary object. They were about 30 feet away going 35 mph (that's what they told the police since that was the speed limit). I was right in front of the driver when I tried to stop and he tried to pull over to the curb as much as he could. As the car got closer, I thought about a lot of things. I was in my first year of marriage, my wife was 5 months pregnant. I finally just surrendered to the Lord's will. The car hit me with the front fender in my right leg. I flipped up in the air and landed in a 3-point stance, facing almost the opposite direction.\nNot only did I suirvive, but my leg wasn't broken either. It truly was the hand of God.Oh yes, by the time I landed, it had stopped raining! Now all of this happened in a fraction of a second!