(Part 2) Best products from r/TBI

I misremembered which would certainly make it harder! Haha it is actually called Head Games, here's the Amazon link

Head Games https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00A8OIFXC/ref=cm_sw_r_cp_apa_dcDvxbFYCTGCQ

I watched your video a bit. Read the post about your gf (sorry about that) and things seem a bit confusing. Some things I noticed... you have a flat affect (I have this too) makes it hard to understand when you are joking or how you actually feel about stuff when you talk about it. I don’t think you are fully aware of how serious your injury is/was/will be. (Maybe you are and it’s the flat affect thing)

Ask around in your daily life how many people have been in a coma, let alone a 11 day one! Not many!! That’s your brain going offline to repair itself. The healing goes on for years afterwards.


So my vote is a NOoooo. Everyone’s injury is different and I’m no doctor. One of the effects of having a TBI is problems with impulse control and just being aware of your injury in general. This is a blessing and a curse of TBI.


Your “job” now is to protect your brain. Try to nourish it with positive people and things. Did they tell you it’s REALLY IMPORTANT not to hit your head again??!!

You might get some insight watching Kevin Pearce’s movie The Crash Reel that’s an amazon link you might be able to watch it another way if you look around.

Wishing you all the best.

as far as having a head that is attracted to hard objects, this was me from the time i first learned to walk. my parents put carpeting around the walls because as a toddler with a disproportionate head i couldn't keep myself upright and would frequently run into them headfirst. i have only a few recollections but several scars on my forehead to prove it and needed stitches a few times. when i was four i fell backwards off of the top of a four foot high slide ladder onto the hard ground below. as i got older, whenever i would smack my head even slightly i would get disoriented with extended boughts of headaches, nausea, irritability and depression. this became unavoidable when as a teenager kids would slam my head against lockers, table top me onto the hard ground, and punch me in the head (as a short, fat, ethnic and socially inept kid in what was at the time a small farm town i found myself to be moving target for bullies). my symptoms got considerably worse after within a period of a month falling backwards off of a trampoline a few times and getting smacked in the back of the head with a pool ball by someone who thought it would be funny. after some trial and error i learned how to dissuade people from noticing me all together, which did not stop the targeting necessarily but made physical repercussions less frequent. my parents, who were both immigrants that grew up under trying circumstances, did not understand what i was going through for a long time and did not know how to help me.

Anyhow, i was experiencing persistent vertigo a few years ago when a subsequent brain mri revealed several scars. i later found out that repeated blows to the head can cause inflammation, and because my condition was worsening was put on medication that has prevented further damage. stabilizing my condition has enabled me to rehabilitate and regain some of the lost function and i feel a lot healthier now. vertigo is almost nonexistent except when i am under a lot of stress. i've taken the contrast agent several times and in hindsight had i not my health would be a lot worse today. i've noticed no ill effects and just drink extra water on the day of tests as radiologists say that the agent leaves the body through urine. i believe an mri without contrast agent would still detect scars but would not differentiate between those that are and are not getting worse, so you may still find that worthwhile. if the results are positive, you might then decide to further investigate whether the damage is ongoing or has stabilized. this is what i would have done had i any reservations about the contrast agent.

i still bump my head once in a while, which affects my balance and makes subsequent bumps more likely. after second bump in a span of a few days this past summer, i bought a bump cap and in cases where bumpage is more likely keep one handy. the one i got comes with an overlapping baseball cap, so if i ever wear it in public i feel less conspicuous (listing: https://www.amazon.com/Titus-Lightweight-Safety-Bump-Cap/dp/B01FWY0ZCQ/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1486388310&sr=8-1&keywords=titus+lightweight). depending on the frequency and severity of previous concussions, sudden head movements like jerking and bouncing can reaggravate or even cause a concussion on their own, so like you i am moving around more gingerly which seems to help from a symptom standpoint as well as preventing more bumps. CBD is the only treatment i've found to be effective for migraines, along with the numerous other health benefits it provides.

i've never heard of cranial sacral massage, super neurogen, E3AFA, and phosphatidylserine. accupuncture seems expensive and not something my insurance would cover and i've been on the fence about whether to try seeing a chiropractor especially after reading about some of the risks online.