Speech problems after head injury
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Can you elaborate on the character of the headache in the frontal and temple area? How about your head injury? This can be due to primary headaches such as tension headache which usually presents with pressure or viselike headache. Healing or recovering from a concussion takes time and may take weeks or even months. Headaches, dizziness, irritability and concentration problems may be observed.
Though I fell down quite hard on my head , my head didnot hurt at all. Instead I hurt my leg and neck a bit. Is it possible that I may internally bleeding in my head. One of my relatives had an internally bleeding in her head not too long ago after she fell down , hence I am feeling scared. Almost 2 hours has passed since I fell down and still I donot feel any such discomfiture other than a blunt headache which lasts for 2/3 minutes. Should I be worried?
Her issues at Universtity could definitely be related to her brain injury. Did you daughter receive any therapy after her accident? I think you need to talk with her neurologist/neurosurgeon. He/she can refer you to some specialists who can work with your daughter. Sometimes, after a brain injury, the brain needs to be "re-taught" things that were already learned. This could involve physical therapy, occupational therapy, speech thereapy, etc.
s, loss of coordination, blurry vision, twitches in both arms, numbness in both arms, loss of memory, slurred speech, and sexual performance problems. An MRI was done showing damage in the c4,c5,c6 in the neck region which causes my neck to hurt constantly. I was asking if this could be also a result from a brain injury I did hit my head pretty good in the accident.
Although, he did not have any visible head injury, he was acting really weird (e.g he was slurring his speech, confused, disoriented, sleepless, restless and delusional). I took him to the emergency room the next day and they did a CT scan, but did not find any brain injuries or blood in his brain. The doctor who saw him was in a extreme rush and didn't really talked to us. When my husband was discharged from the ER they gave him a paper explaining about head concussion.
my partner suffered a head injury last year both sides of his head were crushed due to faulty gym equipment he has been diagnosed with chemical imbalance he cant stand as he is dizzy hes developed a very bad speech defect hes lost 4 stone in weight doctors have said hes lucky to be alive they said just time theres nothing they can do surely this is wrong
He never had any problems like that before his back injury. It seemed to have started exactly after he somewhat recovered from his back injury.
It does seem to be worse when his sciatica gets bad.
He isn't on any medications and parkinsons doesnt run in the family.
His "slurring" is actually more like a stutter, where his mouth is shaking along with his arm.
I Have blood sugar strips for my grandfather, would those results be useful?
Well, symptom wise it does sound like concussion. A concussion can last for weeks after the head injury. The symptoms too vary from person to person. Headache, confusion, memory loss, dizziness, nausea vomiting, slurred speech and fatigue are common. Delayed symptoms include depression, irritability, sleep disturbances, seizures, loss of smell etc. A doctor generally looks for focal neurological or generalized neurological symptoms that would show there is a pressure on brain somewhere.
The doctor says her lack of speech and confusion is from the infection. She is worse then ever its been a week since her injury. »What can be the problem-she is in a top nerological hospital in Buffalo, N.Y. noone has any answers-they just keep telling us to wait until infection clears up. Apparently, no damage to brain and blood on brain is slowly going away. Please help-what can be going on- She was on Plavix before injury and no more blood is leaking on the brain.
Also if stuttering developed in adulthood, it can be due to anxiety, head injury, tumor, stroke or drug use. All these may affect speech and learning, and visual perception of letter.
You need to consult a speech and language therapist to assess the cause of your problem. Do request your PCP to refer you to one. Take care!
i was wondering if you could assist me with finding out more information regarding this. and if its possible he could in deed have problems due to that blow to the head.. im on my own dealing with this and i dont know where to turn.. how could i arrange a ct scan to see if there has been any damage?
My mother 78 year old, occured a head injury due to car accident and CT scan report :-A 3.3 x3 cm hemorrhagic contusion noted in left fronto-temporal region . Another 2X1.9 cm hemorrhagic contusion noted on right frontotemporal region. Diffuse SAH noted involving both hemispheres.No middle line shift .Communited fracture of right tempral bone noted.
Considering her age we have not opted for surgery and after 26 days still she is in unconcious stage .
Welcome to the neurology medhelp forum with this query. you had a head injury following which there could have been an intracranial bleed, the hematoma could be causing the pain in the head and irritating the nerve supplying the area causing numbness. I can see that you didn’t have any of the serious signs like dizziness, loss of consciousness, slurring of speech, drooling of saliva, visual and speech disturbances etc.
A concussion can last for weeks after the head injury. The symptoms too vary from person to person. Headache, confusion, memory loss, dizziness, nausea vomiting, slurred speech and fatigue are common. Delayed symptoms include depression, irritability, sleep disturbances, seizures, loss of smell etc. A doctor generally looks for focal neurological or generalized neurological symptoms that would show there is a pressure on brain somewhere.
That you also had a head injury combined with your intoxicated state . . . those two together gave you the issues of memory, speech, etc. YOu could have a brain injury or concussion. See your doctor to determine this. I would definitely do that and if nothing else, you have a concussion baseline exam for anything that happens in the future.
Again, I don't think what you experienced was just the fall but your drunken state.
My son was diagnosed with a small biparietal subdural haematoma after a fall and CT SCAN DIAGNOSIS,admitted and discharged after 3 days.Was managed with Phenytoin,Mannitol and Neurobine.The head ache has completely gone since then and shows no sign of pain yet.Is he out of danger yet?Im very worried.V.B.J.
Please let me know my younger brother met with an accident a serious head injury was happened.some part of bone was removed now they are replacing titanuim mesh.I am getting worry about his future.i dnt know wht to do and also after doing 1st surgery he is not able to speek slowly he got to apeek single words.doctors are saying that it will take time to get speech but one of the junior doctor said only 10% chances are there for speech from that day i am getting lot of tension about my brother.
Even then, the final outcome is extremely difficult to assess after the injury and operation. I advise you to find the home page for brain injury support groups. There is tons of information on these pages which will help you understand what your brother may go through while recovering and how it affects family members. Personality changes are quite common following trauma to the brain.
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