Traumatic Subarachnoid haemorrhage in 2013 - still being affected?

[Sailorclive]

I was run over by a car in November 2013 and in addition to fractures I suffered a Traumatic Subarachnoid haemorrhage.

I was in hospital for three months and then at home for another three months.

I then retired (at 55 ) and have been trying to recover my fitness.

I find that when cycling (over 20 miles) or walking (3 or 4 miles) my right leg just stops working. I have to really concentrate on moving it and it feels like just a dead weight.

I know that they had trouble getting a reflex reaction from the right leg in hospital but I have no memory of the first six weeks after the collision and so I don't know what they were hoping for.

I also had lumbar fractures and put my lack of fitness down to those injuries but it has been suggested that the failing of my leg may be related to the Subarachnoid haemorrhage.

I have seen my doctor but as a 58 year old I exceed the usual fitness requirements - I can dress and walk up stairs, do all the day to day things etc- and so there is not much the doctor can offer.

Can anyone suggest who I should speak to or where i can seek help.

[magdolna]

Maybe what you have is a good fitness level for you considering what happened to you. I have deficits in right frontal lobe after i had a spectacular SAH in Aug 2016 and was in hospital for 7 weeks. I have no memory of first 4 weeks. Do you know which part of you brain has been affected? Where you can you could perhaps retrain your brain to via the neurons that are working. I am happy to be able to just walk a few miles. I think sometimes we have too higher an expectation and want to be like we were before. I am now reconciled to how things are and just live and have adapted my life with the deficits i have eg making notes due to short term memory deficit. Maybe speak to James Cracknell because he seems to do the most spectacular things and he had a really bad brain injury after a cycle accident. Not sure what i have said is of any help but hey ho it's all a learning curve. Good luck to you.

[steve55]

have you ever thought the reason youre having to really concentrate is because your leg is trying to tell you enough is enough?

try doing it in stages and stopping for a break and gradually building up because dont forget its only been 5yrs since your bi.