Memory Problems After TBI

Dr. David Arciniegas explains why information doesn't "sink in" for brain injury survivors.

[toddyb]

I lost my memory 27 years ago after a 20ft memory returned 2 years even remembered the free fall

[MyKneeGro]

Nobody understands me anymore. It's a lonely place to be.

[stutommies]

Great information!! I was not aware of the rush of neurotransmitters after a TBI... Thank you!!

[KuyaJRTV]

Recently, my friend who also have an amnesia after a near fatal accident can't remember our names. Little by little, his memories come back but only selective. He can remember faces but not the names. He also forgot how he became hospitalized. The motor accident damaged his left temporal.

[danhughes]

Your knowledge is spot on....you are great dr
It's hard to understand that you understand
Great job....how do you know how tbi effects
Us

[sassypants]

Exactly!
Thats exactly what it feels like. Only now add.. I forget what I'm saying/thinking and it's driving me insane.

What I know is things that were traumatic to me after tbi I remember pretty much on the money.. but everyday life remembering is a challenge.
Reading drives me nuts.. my eyes/brain or whatever is happening makes it so hard.
Thank you so much!

[lucesquivel]

I had a brain bleed when I was born caused from me going into cardiac arrest and I relate so much to what you are saying.

[warriorgp]

I was involved in a car accident as a toddler and suffered a head injury.

I've had 3 concussions playing football.

2 head injuries from doing stupid stunts

2 concussions doing MMA

1 concussions from a fight

2 concussions after being jumped by gang members

1 TBI from a 50 mph car accident, in which I hit a dump truck head on totalling my car.

It's a wonder my brain even still works. If it were not for CBT training, neuroplastic training, fish oil, ginkgo biloba, gotu kola, BDNF increasing supplements, and neuroprotective/bioenergetic supplements, I'd be in serious trouble! My memory was so bad at one point, I would forget my car keys 15 times in one day. I couldn't remember meals I had just ate or what I was getting ready to do. After doing the above treatments, about 80% of my memory has been restored. My only concern now is lack of working memory. I also still struggle with a little anterograde amnesia, but it has significantly improved.

[minorcode]

Very informative.I got a crash 9 months back.I was unconscious for some hours but my bad i was drunk.After waking i had no memories and actually couldn't tell what happened.I used to talk like a kid for two weeks without reasoning.I later recovered and went back to job where am a software engineer just perfoming well but untill today i have problems with memory.I cant remember past things or even remember a dream.Every past memories is a stream of unfinished stuffs.

[RoadRunnergarage]

I forget things from 2 minutes ago, yet I remember events from 30 plus years ago...

[raymondparnell]

Well I got knocked out in football and woke up not recognising anyone not knowing how long I had left or how long I'd been there ( incarcerated 16yrs old ) my memory came back slowly 24hrs later but not all of it. I can't remember anything before 11/12 yrs old . It's been nearly 30 yrs. Still no childhood memories

[mr.invincible]

I just had an accident yesterday. & I don't remember a thing about yesterday. Things like when did I leave my home for college & after an accident how did I get home by myself. It all felt like a bad dream to me. Thank God that I was wearing a helmet while riding my motorcycle. But I don't remember anything. I don't know what to do . I feel so strange rn .

[dragonvibin]

Just had a motorcycle accident last night and have no recall of the accident getting back to my work to get my other half drive me to the ER. I remember absolutely nothing right now.

[kathyhhb]

That's how it is for me since years.

[armandoaguilera]

Guau! 25 years to recover your memory it’s a loong time how did you react? I’m curious because I don’t remember anything about a car accident where I suffered a tbi 8 months ago and it makes me nervous just to think how i’m going to react the moment i recover that memory!

[d]

What are the remedies for such cases ?
I myself had a trauma to head and have recovered but after recovery my memory has reduced

[freqeist]

2014 cycling from my girlfriends I had an accident i have no memory of it TBI subarracnoid hemorage sub dural hematomas both side frontal lobe damge and i had an intracranial pressure tube in my brain and a tube from my ventricals down to my peroteneum which is permenant I havent cycled since and i had to leave my job as a nurse (dual qualified) make thew most of what you have because one day it may change.

[SouadCh-juww]

Is just one year I don't remember I was in the first year of the school as young child and I don't remember what I was learning that year and no one knows like someone still one year of my life and the next year went I got to go to school I had to learn again the stuf again

[whiskeyo]

i look in the mirror, and dont recognize the person staring back at me.
i sit at the dinner table with family, but feels as if they're strangers.
I have memories, but feels as if its stolen from another persons life I've never known.

[crazymode]

I all of a sudden 3 years after a car accident developed seizures and memory problems that feel like I have advances althimersz I forget where I out the keys after I open the car and get in. I put them in weird places like the door console or my backpack. I can't seem to recall any knowledge I so carefully and dutifully learned as a child. I cant recall facts but can all of a sudden do math pretty darn well dance really well and can coriograf a dance, I also became clically depressed my personality changed from a outdoor fanatic that would backpack alone for 20 miles to a couch potato YouTube loving person. I have not owned a TV since 2011 yet now I am obsessed with it. It is really hard building a new personality I still try to so the things I used to love like camp but I hate it so much so so much