My Old Concussion: a Hidden Coup-contrecoup Injury? Posted: 10-19-07 07:45am
Listen to my head injury story and tell me
what you think.
Every hear of the "trust" game? You fall
backwards into the arms of a friend, and
they catch you, and you have thus learned
to trust. 11 years ago I played a
variation of the trust game with friends
where two of them would catch me.
The problem was, in that moment, each
thought the other would catch me, and the
result was my fall, straight back, right
onto hard concrete. I am 6 feet tall and
was, at the time, about 145 pounds, if
that is relevant to the speed of the fall.
My body was stiff as a board all the way
down. The back of my cranium took the blow
which, I was told, sounded like a bowling
ball hitting the cement. I suffered
retrograde and antegrade amnesia, a few
minutes of actually forgetting my own
name, a VERY distorted sense of the
passage of time, and I was very confused.
These symptoms passed after a few minutes
and never returned. I resisted offers to
take me to the hospital at that time. (I
should have gone.)
These days my run-of-the-mill memory
problems sometimes make me suspect the
fall was the cause, BUT I have had memory
problems before that.
I am an intelligent man in his mid-30s
working on his 3rd degree, so clearly
there are no intellectual deficits to
report (that I can think of).
(1) I am highly concerned about the
so-called coup contrecoup motion of the
brain. Although it has been well over a
decade, some say a coup contrecoup injury
can kill you years later. I doubt this
because I feel fine. How concerned would
you be if this was you?
(2) Should I get a CAT scan? What should
they be looking for?
(3) If at the time of the concussion there
was a small amount of bleeding inside my
head, but not enough to cause problems,
what becomes of that blood? Does the body
simply absorb it over time?
I appreciate your time. If you could also
refer my question to others so that I
could benefit from more than 1 opinion,
I'd be very grateful. Thanks.
-Gregory33
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Little Miss Oops
Active User, Really EHEALTHy
Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 542 Location: Just Know That It Sucksville, Usa
Posted: 01-25-08 14:24pm
i think you should still go to the dr.
because you could be still bleeding in the
brain. very very very slowly but still.
and it does cause problems later in life.
please go see a dr asap and update me
thanks!!!!
XOCassieXO
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antigone
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Posted: 02-11-08 02:09am
This post is old but I feel compelled to
answer anyway. If you had any bleeding
from the fall - subdural hematoma- if it
was a small bleed your body would reabsorb
the blood. If there had been a larger
bleed, a clot would have developed and you
would have had neurological deficits and
changes. You did not. A coup contrecoup is
a head unjury that involves the brain
being bounced forward then backward or
from side to side. There is injury to the
opposite sides of the brain. Usually the
symptoms of the brain injury appear
relatively soon.
A CT scan would show any clot or blood. If
you see a neurologist they can do a neuro
exam. Are you having any problems? Neuro
deficits due to a bleed will get
progressively worse. See a doctor if you
are concerned. I am a neuro ICU RN and it
is my experience that you would have some
indication of a problem.
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