What Happens When You're In a Coma?

The word coma comes from the greek meaning of “deep sleep,” but what exactly does this unconscious state do to your brain?


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How Comas Work
“Illnesses that affect the brain and brain injuries can both cause comas. If a person suffers severe head trauma, the impact can cause the brain to move back and forth inside the skull.”

How Active Is the Brain in a Coma?
“When doctors recently tested former Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon brain with a functional MRI, they found "robust" brain activity when he was shown pictures of his family and heard his son’s voice. A stroke and brain hemorrhage left Sharon in a coma seven years ago.”

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[not_today_satan_]

my brother was sufficated by two anahiem police officers. he died but was then revived. he was in a deep coma for three weeks before he opened his eyes. dr said he had very little brain activity. he spent the next 7 1/2 years in a persistant vegitative state. it was so hard to watch his body rot in that bed. he finally died. i really miss him.

[awesomeliv]

I was in a coma
My parents were told I wouldn’t wake up but against all odds I did
It felt like I was asleep for 1 second
While recovering my brain was a bit foggy for the first couple weeks but I eventually made a full recovery and I’m happy to say I am now living a completely normal life

[Orros]

Before my granny died, she was in a coma. Like in the sleeping type of coma. We celebrated my brother's birthday by her side. My cousin entered the room with food and drinks and ice cream. This cousin was the black sheep of the family. He would always swear and cause trouble and drink.
But this one night, he sat beside my grandmother and just cried. He begged her to wake up. He told her all he ever wanted was for our family to be complete again. He said this and a bunch of other heartfelt stuff.
When he left, I glanced over to my grandmother and there were tears falling from her eyes.
She heard everything.

This is sort of a personal thing and I just wanted to share my experience with it.

[jukestv]

pls help us to pray with the recovery of my mom Elizabeth she's in coma state till now since september 24, 2019, Tia

[ZeoViolet]

My mom. She was sixteen when she and her first boyfriend were struck by a drunk driver. Drunk driver had a few scratches. Boyfriend was killed. My mom had a shattered body, broken neck, severe head trauma, and was in a coma for six months. She was expected to die, and when that didn't happen, they said she'd be a quadriplegic vegetable for the rest of her life.

Obviously that didn't happen either, or I wouldn't be here. I do know she defied all medical odds in that she survived and made a complete recovery...with one exception. Complete amnesia. She didn't know who she was or who anybody was, and had to start over again from scratch.

All these years later, she does remember some things about her childhood now. You'd never know it happened to her. There are a few minor scars on her body and around her lip area (very faded). They also told her she'd never be able to have kids...again, wrong, as she married and had four of us.

I've seen photos of the wreck...the car was totaled. The guy who struck them also didn't even serve time in prison. Mom's family was in contact with his family, though, for the rest of his life, and through that, I know that he had to live with what he had done for the rest of his days. Maybe, in this case, it was punishment enough.

[BRVvideos]

Comas are everywhere.... Sounds like my English teacher.

[unicornsqueezins]

When I was about nine years old, my father had a very bad motorcycle wreck, which broke his neck, fractured his skull, shattered his ribs, legs, arms, punctured his liver, collapsed both lungs, and countless other things that I don't remember anymore. He was found lying in a ditch by someone about 9 hours after the wreck, and rushed to the nearest ER. It was estimated that his speed upon impact was approx. 160mph. Heroine and alcohol were found in his system, also noted was the fact that he was not wearing a helmet, which ironically saved his life because it would have separated his spinal cord, they said.
He ended up in a coma.
Brain scans revealed that part of his brain was permanently destroyed. They said that if he ever woke up, he'd be a vegetable for the rest of his life, but weren't optimistic about him surviving.
But, he did survive. He was in a coma for 4 months until he woke up, and they were right, he was not the same. He had 15% permanent brain damage, very poor motor skills, stuttering, slurred speech, anger and impulse control problems, etc. He had to relearn everything; it was like teaching a toddler trapped in a broken adult's body.
His accident not only damaged him, but also took a massive toll on the family, which it never recovered from. Financial ruin, rage, abuse, and sadness were the daily norm from then on out.
My father spent the rest of his days in and out of rehab facilities, jails, hospitals, then ultimately prison.

Approx. Late 2014 he was released from prison, and living on the streets. A few months later, Someone gave him a little money to help him get on his feet, which he used to buy a bicycle.
Less than an hour after buying the bicycle, he was hit by a car, and taken to the hospital, where they did another brain scan, and found that the dead part of his brain had formed into a glioblastoma tumor, and gave him 6 months to died two weeks later.
His accident in 1992, killed him 23 years later, and destroyed everyone around him along the way...

If you think you're invincible, you are not.
If you think your actions and decisions affect only you, you are wrong.
Bones heal, wounds heal, but psychological trauma will haunt you for the rest of your life.

Life is delicate, and EVERYTHING you do matters.

[irmarivera]

11 years ago I was in a coma for over 15 days, my nephew and his wife were with me round the clock talking kissing and hugging me which helped me a lot, I was able to recover to the fullest and I had to take physical therapy for a long while but am thankful to my small family for helping me!!! The coma was a level 3!!!

[OrangePumpkin]

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[duncannkiwane]

I watched my dad fall into coma late last year, and for some reason I actually felt like he was aware of his surroundings yet could not speak nor could he see.
After falling into coma 24hours later, he was pronounced brain dead.

He was always in and out of hospital. But on that day, I held myself, made my peace and let him go.
He always looked up to me as his hero.

And before he went into coma, I had the chance to tell him how much I loved him. Because I looked up to him.
And for that I'm sure he he's at peace.

[quallsimodo]

I know someone that's in a coma right now. She's a teenager who was involved in a wreck. She's now been in a coma for over 110 days. We are all still hopeful. #AveTheBrave

[felipe]

My Father was in a coma and passed away 20 days before I was born. It's really sucks knowing that I'm never going to get to meet him or know what having a father would of been like.

[masterrr]

in 2003 I was hit by a car from behind and was in a coma for 2 days, I remember nothing, except awaking completely disoriented and confused as to how I got in a hospital

[God_Body]

I was in a coma for two days after I was shot in the head. While I was in the coma i was unresponsive. the doctor told my mother there was a 90 per cent chance that I wouldn't wake. When the doc told her this she started to cry and I was told that when I heard her cry I started to kick my leg. Doc was surprised and encouraged her to keep talking to me.. I don't remember any of it. All I remember is waking up from the coma with a tube down my throat and trying to pull it out because I couldn't breathe and then fading back out.

[bobquan]

My best friend last year in got in a 4 wheeler wreck and he wasn't wearing a helmet and he hit his head on a rock he has been in a coma for a wile witch he is now in a vegetable state he is only 14 and needs prayer. god be with you Colton 🙏

[looneytunes]

Reading through the comments and realising that there's actually a lot of people who got coma from traffic incidents and some didn't even make maybe we should start driving safely and following traffic pedestrians rules but even that can't guarantee a 100% no accident from traffic

[letzsee]

Lol... That desperate attempt to relate coma and that shaving kit. :))

[ttenrabdn]

When my dad was 18 years old he went on a date with a girl. While driving to a scenic "makeout point" a hubcap fell off the car he was driving. He pulled over and went to grab it and while he was in the middle of the road another motorist came around the corner and hit him. He died 3 times in the ER and was in a coma for 8 days. When he woke up he went from being an honor student, with perfect memory that could play multiple instruments and speak several languages, to the behavior and mental capacity of a 4 year old. He had bouts of sever aggression and had to relearn all his basics. After several months of various rehabs (physical and mental) he got back to "normal". Though, he lost the ability for perfect recall, couldn't play most of his instruments and had lost most of the non-native languages that he had learned over the years. He's now 50, and still (has my whole life) struggled with his memory, he's more like the absentminded professor now in some ways. Still very smart, but pretty likely to forget plans if they fall outside of what would be the norm for the day.

[locksmithdb]

I fell into a coma from liver failure, for almost 2 months. I had the most intense dreams!

[danielbray]

I have a traumatic brain injury from a car wreck, and I was in a coma, at a 4 on the GCS, but I've recovered incredibly.