Can Symptoms of TBI Show Up a Few Years After an Injury?

Hello ... if one has had a concussion over 20 years ago and then a few more in recent years ... got a DTI scan and lesions and shrinkage of the frontal lobe is shown ... could it be from 20 years ago or one of the more recent concussions? what's it mean when they list blooming ... and I'm assuming that the shearing is from the recent concussions OR could that be very old damage as well? Trying real hard to get back to work but tons of issues ... Thanks.

I am 27 years old. When I was seven I was in by a car in a traffic accident. I hit my head twice on the car and fractured my ankle and shoulder blade. When I woke up in the hospital, my nose was smashed down into my face from the impact of the car. I found out recently from my mother that even though the hospital knew I was in an accident and that I had to of had some sort of brain injury I was not given a brain scan. Immediately afterward, my grades dropped, I had an extreme attitude change, and I developed an eating disorder called PICA (where you eat inedible objects, i.e., Paper dirt rubber plastic staples light bulbs wood and cardboard). After a couple of months I stopped and started to get better, but I started getting extreme migraines, my mood continued to be poor, I began getting muscle spasms throughout the day (sometimes causing me to lose consciousness), dizziness and memory loss.

I got hit by a car again in 2017. This time on a bike and got a CT scan. They said there was nothing wrong, but I was informed that CT scans don't always show the problem. Now I have migraines all day. I went to the emergency room and asked them to do another scan, and they didn't even check it out they just tried to tell me I was probably dehydrated. I drink plenty of water.

I'm worried it might be something detrimental. What am I supposed to do? The doctors won't help.

I am 47 years old and have multiple "crashes" to the head. I deal with depression, insomnia, concentration, focusing, feeling "I am at fault", mood swings, ect. The head injuries occurred from age 8-23. My question is.....Can the head injury stem to my feelings, issues, ect.

Insurance companies have lobbied against MRI's after accidents because they know they can potentially find a brain injury much easier with a contrast MRI than with a CT scan. They have lobbied for protocols to disallow MRI's because they work.
The protocol for doctors to deny MRI's to potential brain damages has thereby been relegated to worthless non-contrast CT scans.
Too many personal injury cases have been won in the past due to accurate MRI results, so they have paid lobbyists to make these types of scans very difficult to order in cases of auto accidents. Liberty Mutual alone has paid $30,020,000 in 2017 alone in an effort to enforce medical protocols for worthless non-contrast brain scans due to too much evidence in the hands of the injured.
They have thereby required doctors to give 5 optional mri companies to the patient who needs something better than a worthless non-contrast CT scan. They have painted up the MRI industry as a bunch of greedy nepotists and middle-men mark-up men with the intent to leave the victim without any means of proving his case in a court of law. But then they allow the cheaper and largely useless CT scans to be unregulated and perfectly allowable at those very same facilities.
Now go figure.

I am 34 when I was 14 I was hit by a car and unconscious for a little over 24 hrs. I couldn't stand fast or walk too much for over a week without losing consciousness. Doctors said it was due to the pain of broken bones. But since then and even worse now I'll cry at inappropriate times or laugh at inappropriate times. I find it hard to connect with death or one of my children's success. Or the very opposite. Is this a possible symptom from this? How can I fix it?

I wish I knew if I suffer from a brain injury I suffered decades ago. I was under a lot of domestic violence and one day, my husband, who was runner up to Mr. Hercules in Texas and a captain in fire department..an extremely strong man, hit me so hard I went flying over furniture and hit the back of my head on the floor. I could not get up. I never went to the hospital but over a 3 month period could not walk without help. He used to carry me to a cot he had set up in the garage so I could see children in the back garden playing. Every time I raised my head I felt like I saw quadruplet and the force of the dizziness would force my head back against the cot... Ii could not do a thing. I was terrified of telling anyone and only after 3 months could I again walk unaided. Now at the most 4 decades later I continue to be depressed and have anxiety, difficulty in concentration, difficult to retain information, blurry vision, and sensitivity to light. I have been told by my Dr. in the uk that I probably have had brain injury from beatings around the head. I would love to get well. I have been diagnosed for ptsd, anxiety, and depression in the states. I take citalopram. Is there anything I can do to find out? Cheryl

I want the person who asked about her son being 9 month old who asked about if the initial test that indicated the test being normal, and then later on the child having difficulty to know that yes the difference she is seeing could very well be from the accident and that the test do not always reveal this especially since this child was not able to speak and let the doctors know symptoms, and the basic MRI not showing does not mean her son didn't have a brain injury, and the doctor should have suggested to perform various testing at other stages to rule out effects and thus have offered followed care

I got into a fight September of 2013 and I cut my head open and got 5 staples and fractured my skull. (Metal part of a table went into my head) now may 23rd 2015 I've had a terrible headache and realized there's and indent where I cut my head and a bump right next to it. Should I be worried?

I was thrown from a horse and trampled when I was 16yrs old. An X-ray and CT scan was done. There wasn't any indication of a major injury. I was actually discharged from the hospital the same day. I ended up with major facial swelling and severe bruising. Two years afterwards I suffered from black outs on and off. I was seen by a neurologist who couldn't find anything wrong. I am now 44 with no short term memory, I sometimes am very paranoid and have experienced severe anxiety/panic attacks. I also have difficulty forming sentences due to forgetting which words to use. Could this be the result of my accident?

I've been having really bad headaches for years now and I finally went to the eye doctor about it because my eyes are being sensitive to light all of a sudden. I keep throwing up and back in 2012 I got in to a bad accident but they did a X-ray to see if anything was broken and nothing and then stitched my chin up. I don't remember much at all about it. I just remember heading my head on pavement going 50 miles per hour. My memory has been so bad lately it's hard to remember long term things. Help me

My sons symptoms came three weeks after his. Once they did an mri they learned we had a bigger issue in our hands.

No one knows until you've walked in someone else's shoes and we really don't know how this did or didn't affect him.Hope he gets the hep he needs However my son had a TBI where he was air lifted had a subdural hematoma and DAI. He amazingly recovered leaps and bounds because of this it was considered a complicated concussion. This label in a way discredited how traumatic his injury really was. I had a hard time getting his IEP and restrictions in place because the label of complicated concussion is such a wide group of injuries. There is a huge difference between the "take it easy for 2 weeks concussion" to the "airlifted, subdural hematoma, DAI,  2year post concussion syndrome" but yet gets treated almost the same by places like the school or work.Our physicians and specialist have been nothing but amazing but the rest of society doesn't seem to understand. Everyone is now coming out with "I had a concussion,what about me?" with all the hype around TBI's. Nothing wrong with that but I think there needs to be more recognition and different scales or terms because every TBI is on the spectrum but each one needs treated accordingly. They can't be all treated the same esp with so many people getting more on board with the TBI involvement(which is great don't get me wrong). There needs to be clear cut differences for the ones who have significant needs so when they need the help it's not "just another concussion" through places like work or school,but also not giving the less significant ones the same benefit.

I have a friend who had a TBI about five years ago and went through one year of extensive rehab. He does not live near me, but we did meet up a few weeks ago.  During our time together and on the phone, the conversations turned to a sexual nature, in which he basically assured me that we would do this, that, and the other thing, for which he very much wanted, as did I. In essence, after getting my hopes up very high, things took a turn, and the next conversation, he told me that there was no way we could do any of the things, and we could no longer see each other.  I was totally devastated, and could not figure out how he could flit from such a sexual nature to wanting to forget the whole thing and me as well.  My question...can I assume this could or does have something to do with this TBI; and if so, should I realize that this is beyond his control...if it really is?

To the psychologist with the 30 yo patient - they have some amazing testing modalities that would likely be able to identify problem areas. There are functional MRI's (not a normal MRI) and SPECT scans, to name a couple. She would need to see a neuropsychologist or neurologist so they could identify the most appropriate testing. With these scans, physicians can actually see the brain functioning and test various areas and types of work that the brain does.   They are even able to evaluate people years later that had birth injury due to lack of O2. Hope this helps. God Bless you all:) 

I am now just turned 47 years old.  When I was 18 I was hit by a drunk driver that hit my car broadside at 60MPH +, I don't remember a year before and lost about a year afterwards.

Back then I was just diagnosed with Post Conclusion Syndrome, my cranium was fractured in 8 Places and I was in an awake type coma for 3 days repeating the same questions over and over.

I have had many issues along the way throughout my life with not remembering things the way they happened and my hand writing skills are still declining.

Within the last 4 years I have been having more and more problems and never knew about TBI and therapy until recently.  I have been dealing with chronic headaches that are destroying my life and now two separate occasions I was out with friends and found myself with disorderly conduct charges for episodes of total Delusional States that I don't even remember doing nor do these episodes represents my character or whom I am.

I am very scared now and need to find specialists.  I hope someone has some advise for me.  Please Advise Soon.