IQ Drop

[Negeen]

Am I the only one whose injury caused a big drop in IQ?

[clivekeen]

No mine aswell left me with brain damage suite a difference now

[RogerCMerriman]

Fairly sure a number on hear have said so when talking about them selfs, clearly taking damage can reduce your cognitive abilities, in my line of work I've met and works with people who have had Meningitis as a child and they have had quite radical pre/after abilities.

[Mikesghost]

I have no idea what my IQ was before or after my tumour was removed but I just know that things I used to find easy before are now very difficult. I used to find medium difficulty sudoku a little tough but doable, now I just can't handle those and the simple puzzles are really hard but with time I can usually complete them. It's frustrating not being able to do things I know would have been a breeze before but in the grand scheme of things it doesn't really matter. I am getting on with my life and really enjoying it

[karenanne]

Hubbys iq after injury has been badly affected,simple things like having to fill in a simple yes no questionaire,he finds very hard,the way he perceives things is totally diff too,we just had bad news that his dads cancer has spread,before his injury he would have went off the rails but now,the enormity of it,hasn't sunk in,in a way i envy that

[Negeen in reply to karenanne]

What type of injury did yoir husband sustain?

[Hidden]

Not sure it's IQ that's the thing. I find my motivation is screwed up completely and kind of frustrating to do puzzles and working out generally and the memory does not work the same. I suppose that would lower my IQ in any test.

[Hidden]

It's like me looking out of a fish bowl at the rest of the world floating by too fast for me to pick up on everything.

[Hidden]

yep went from expected straight A's to just scraping through exams at 16yrs old

[celtic27465]

Hi nageen it might not be the same but I found it hard to retain information after my Sah ! I find my short term memory as worse after wards !

[sospan]

IQ is a very subjective thing, the vary nature of the way IQ is calculated means that even non injured people will see there IQ drop as they get older.

Post injury I had lost 1/3 of my IQ points but that meant I was now in the normal band range.

IQ doesn't necessarily mean intelligence or even common sense. Some times the "very intelligent" people I worked with could dazzle you with facts and technical knowledge but in terms of practicality I was always amazed they managed to get their shoes on the right feet in the morning.

[sean1966]

Not measured exactly but I am sure my IQ has gone down loads overall (

[Negeen]

I think the reason why mine dropped so significantly is because my injury was poison related.

[iforget in reply to Negeen]

I am curious, is there any science behind a specific link to poison related BI and drops in IQ over other types of BI? I have not heard of this - but then again I have never looked for it either...

To answer the original question...No you are not the only one. My IQ tested way lower than pre injury scores ... but I am pretty sure that has more to do with cognitive function issues getting in the way during assessment than a substantial drop in intelligence....

I am still a smartie pants

[Negeen in reply to iforget]

Lol. Iforget. I still feel like a smartypants too sometimes different kinds of poisons effecr ppl differently buy alcohol is notoriois for causih disruption in cognition.

[gr33nmind]

In grade school I was tested and considered highly gifted. An IQ of 136 was considered to be far from a genius, but I was still placed into special classes. When I first had my injury, my cognitive therapist told me that my memory, and other aspects of my cognition would 'never' return. That was 20 years ago. Twelve years ago I had an IQ test, and I noticed that many parts of the test were not testing intelligence, but rather speed, and memory. Some of the testing had me try and put blocks, into an unseen puzzle through a hole in the wall. They had me use both hands, and although I got about 5 pieces into the puzzle using my right hand, I only was able to put 1 in wt my left. My left hand hasn't operated properly since my injury, in fact it was completely contracted after my injury for 6 months, doesn't sense touch correctly, and still tingles. I cannot see how these kinds of tests, honestly test intelligence. I received an IQ, of 103. When I retook the same biased test about 5 years later, my IQ increased to 106. We will always be able to improve our minds, brain injuries or not. The thing is, inside my mind, despite my memory, attention, and other cognition problems, I still think the same way as I did when I was younger. Connections may have been severed, but I am still the same person inside, and new connections can form at anytime.

[karenanne]

He received severe brain injury Hun,brain swelling and bruising,blood clot removed and had to hav blood drained,was knocked out in unprovoked attack,feel hes gotten worse since when he came home from brain injury rehab year and half ago xx

[Phat01]

Yes, IQ is over rated, I used to work with academics who could design experiments but were unable to change a headlamp bulb on their car!