Loss of taste or smell can cause a person to lose or gain weight post-TBI. Produced by Victoria Tilney McDonough and Brian King.
Posted on BrainLine March 16, 2010.
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Anonymous replied on Permalink
14 years ago I fell in the shower in the hospital, struggling with so much, my mum says every day is a different day, she says I don't know which Natalie which day, my concentration,fatigue,loose track of thought, when I talk I think I sound fine, and make sense but I slur and mumble and speak over people, I'm terrible writing anything but practical might work. How long do these symptoms last, every day is a struggle when I fell in the shower I came round and I was front flat with abrasions all up my left side, in front of me where shattered teeth and teeth hanging from my mouth, outcome was I had damaged 17 teeth,broken both TMJ joints, TBI, CERVICAL SPINE injury and lower back lumbar injury. I am scared of falling, I don't understand why I cant just go for a walk, or to try understand the term with everything I used to do, I cant any more, i feel like i am broken so i withdralled myself from life as i knew it. I hid a lot of what I was going through from family. I keep remembering past memories. I have no confidence, I have forgotten so much, I also have short term memory loss, I forget a conversation while talking I just forget while we are talking, when I fell none new about my brain injury until I went back to work, I was told to have more time off,after that i got in my car and just burst into tears cause i had no idea how to drive that's when everything became apparent my appartment looked like a bomb site, so disoriented, from 2008 to 2016, I had no support. I still have all the symptoms, only this year 2020, from 26 June 2006, I'm getting some support. Will biofeedback help. I'm tired, I depend on people. I miss been loved, No medical advice then can anyone please give me some positive ideas.
I'm open minded, but I have been on too many pharmacy pills for everything and anything, and I have tried over and over again to stop. I feel I have the most debilitating life, one fall, is there any one out there, please throw some ideas my way or how long will I suffer. I have not been in a relationship for 13 years it's a life time for some. I don't know when I'm over doing it,or I have forgotten how to eat correctly I don't trust myself to use the hob so I cant cook, cant hoover,cant shower, cant remember to do stuff, I forget all the time,
Thanks for reading this
Arti sharma replied on Permalink
Hello dear, I hope you are doing well and please take care of your self don't be rely on others for your happiness, by profession I am nutritionist take your balanced meal take portion size meal with all nutrition and if u believe in your self and love yourself then definitely you get the right person in your life and take care. God bless you ☺
Ann replied on Permalink
I am replying because my heart goes out to you. I have a son who has symptoma for 4 years. You are loved.