My Old Concussion: a Hidden Coup-contrecoup Injury? Posted: 10-08-07 23:24pm
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.
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