Other Traumatic brain injury or "just PTSD" or a mental disorder?

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Please please go to a doctor. I don’t want to put the fear in you but my Dad had a lot of those symptoms and…. Turned out to be a glioblastoma. Lord knows how long the tumour had been growing before diagnosis, possibly years. And he gave up going to a Dr ages before the diagnosis because he was told the symptoms seemed unrelated. He didn’t get put on random psych meds though because he’s male and therefore they didn’t do the whole “we don’t know and can’t be bothered to find out so we’ll label it as hysterical woman” routine.

I already promised Friday I'll go. I do hate going to the doctors though, as I always have to deal with that hysterical woman crap. I had my brain scanned a few years ago, due to these symptoms, and they found nothing, so I think I'm ok. Thanks for caring. <3

 

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PTSD and Functional Neurologic Disorder (you should have them check into this as well as it's highly likely to develop FND as a somatoform traumatic response, and functional neurologic deficits are genuine neurological issues - they are starting to see this on imaging as well with more finely attuned equipment - they relate to how your brain processes information following the structural changes correlated to PTSD and excessive stress) can cause most of these symptoms.

But so can tumors and lesions and strokes and drug abuse and any number of other issues that affect the brain. If you can approximate when these symptoms started and correlate it to an injury it may be more likely that you do have post-concussion syndrome (a form of brain damage that is relatively mild, and does not always show up on traditional imaging but that can be detected with FNCI, which you may not have gotten).

But there are specific tests they can run you through to figure out what parts of the brain are affected and if it is a neurological or psychological deficit (with neurological deficits you often have different ways of moving, different reflexes, etc). If you received all of these tests and they came back negative for observable damage, you could still have damage that is undetectable, but it is more probable that your issues are relative to trauma, stress, FND and PTSD.

 

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PTSD and Functional Neurologic Disorder (you should have them check into this as well as it's highly likely to develop FND as a somatoform traumatic response, and functional neurologic deficits are genuine neurological issues - they are starting to see this on imaging as well with more finely attuned equipment - they relate to how your brain processes information following the structural changes correlated to PTSD and excessive stress) can cause most of these symptoms.

But so can tumors and lesions and strokes and drug abuse and any number of other issues that affect the brain. If you can approximate when these symptoms started and correlate it to an injury it may be more likely that you do have post-concussion syndrome (a form of brain damage that is relatively mild, and does not always show up on traditional imaging but that can be detected with FNCI, which you may not have gotten).

But there are specific tests they can run you through to figure out what parts of the brain are affected and if it is a neurological or psychological deficit (with neurological deficits you often have different ways of moving, different reflexes, etc). If you received all of these tests and they came back negative for observable damage, you could still have damage that is undetectable, but it is more probable that your issues are relative to trauma, stress, FND and PTSD.

My Neurologist DID find neurological issues in some of the tests. Something about how my eyes moved when he made me look at some pattern moving. He said he was very surprised, as he thought he wouldn't find anything, based on how healthy and quick I looked. Yet, he couldn't find a reason for his findings. I believe I might have some neurological problem, as I feel like I'm super sick, but to me it doesn't seem emotional, like some of them think. It feels like I'm off balance in some deeper way, as if my body fails me. They ended up diagnosing the brain fog as "migraine", and I feel they don't take me seriously, as I work in a high profile job and to them I seem to cope "splendidly". I am so much more miserable than they realize. I am scared and tired and unhappy and lonely. I want help, but I feel like anything I say will be used against me instead of for me.
Thanks for the links. I'll check them out later. Now I have to leave. I got so much feedback and I wanted to answer it all, but I'm exhausted, and my brain fog is bad today.