Head injury (fractures) without TBI

[AlexLu]

Just wondering if there's anyone else who fractured their frontal bone and maxillary sinus bones without brain injury?

Thanks,

[RogerCMerriman]

not my self no, I fractured the back of my skull, and have brain injury from that, but to the best of my knowledge you can fracture your skull with no brain damage and equally you can suffer brain damage, from trauma with out fracturing your skull.

[AlexLu in reply to RogerCMerriman]

No memory loss here except don't remember the impact but can remember passwords etc, walked without aid since 5 hours after the accident, no speech impairment but suffer from anxiety so any burn I feel where the forehead scar is means that I start freaking out. Do you know if hematomas could develop over 3 weeks after the incident? This is day 23 for me but still worried about hematoms.

Also could sleep at night just fine, last week however used to get the occasional wooziness (which is bit different than dizziness as the world never spinned around me and never vomited but felt nauseous especially during last week which the GP connected to my anxiety.

Also brain injury wasn't mentioned on my discharge letter, max fax told me it's just the frontal bone and maxillary sinus fractured.

[RogerCMerriman in reply to AlexLu]

yes hematomas can show some time after, or be chronic, it's best not to dwell on the things that can happen if you can though, since you name it can.

my discharge letter doesn't state brain injury, but I clearly was still very confused by time I was discharged. and seening the GP's and other serices they treated it has a brain injury, which clearly it is/was.

It is quite possible that what your experinncing is wholly down anxiety. sounds like your suffering quite a bit what ever the underlining cause.

[malalatete]

Get a referral for some CBT for anxiety issues. Your doctors have given you the all clear and you are still worrying about whether something can come on weeks later. You will by now have set your brain into flight/fight mode, triggering possibilities of dizziness, palpitations, sweats and chills - all because you are in a state of nervous over- arousal. All of this you are likely to interpret in your current state with foreboding as being indicative of something dreadful - which it isn't.

You need to get some psych help to calm your mind and system down before you get yourself into a right state. Your GP will be able to refer you, hopefully quite speedily. Good luck with getting it sorted out.