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Thick Skin or no awareness?

Having made complaints & personal comments about employers, brain injury organisations and others with their own brain injury related life problems. I’m...

Having made complaints & personal comments about employers, brain injury organis...

lloydyuk

•5 years ago

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Scaphoid

Had a part fusion of the wrist last may, worst decision ever! Question is, can it be taken out and a spacer put in where scaphoid was or is a replacement...

Had a part fusion of the wrist last may, worst decision ever! Question is, can i...

Bigstevie67

•5 years ago

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Bi polar

Hi all, I’ve just been diagnosed with Bipolar 2. Pchs believe its down to brain damage and long term use of meds. Has anyone else been diagnosed with this?...

Hi all, I’ve just been diagnosed with Bipolar 2. Pchs believe its down to brai...

Jaxs050783

•5 years ago

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Cause of celebration

So to mark celebrate feeling mental well again (like ready to go back to work mentally well) and my blueberrys 1st birthday i got myself another blueberry bush...

So to mark celebrate feeling mental well again (like ready to go back to work me...

bexx87

•5 years ago

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My son

Had a episode ystrdy.but then threatned to kill me.police arrested him.dr at police said he was too unstable to interviewmbut noone else the mntal hosp or...

Had a episode ystrdy.but then threatned to kill me.police arrested him.dr at pol...

ricozoe

•5 years ago

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Ache in shunt.

Hi everybody.. Been gettin an ache/pain where my VP shunt goes into skull/head.. I’ve told my GP and he has referred me to my neurosurgeon to get it checked...

Hi everybody.. Been gettin an ache/pain where my VP shunt goes into skull/head...

Wazza84

•5 years ago

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Sleep

How can i cope with not gtting sleep in daytime.as cnt cos ave to watch my son.hes gt mntal health problems .trying to manage but lack of sleep is making me...

How can i cope with not gtting sleep in daytime.as cnt cos ave to watch my son.h...

ricozoe

•5 years ago

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After six months...

My father had a poor grade ruptured aneurysm last August 1, 2018. He had been going in and out of hospital due to complications. And now, he is starting his...

My father had a poor grade ruptured aneurysm last August 1, 2018. He had been go...

gladys_2018

•5 years ago

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What do you do for work?

Hi Just curious to hear what people do for work post-BI (what type of work and in what capacity), and particularly how it fits in with your fatigue management....

Hi Just curious to hear what people do for work post-BI (what type of work and i...

Onedge93

•5 years ago

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Light sensitivity HELP please.

I've got PCS, many symptoms have improved or are manageable however the light sensitivity part is as bad as ever. I've been prescribed tinted lenses which work...

I've got PCS, many symptoms have improved or are manageable however the light se...

pinkvision

•5 years ago

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Ow it hurts why do using you to do non auto pilot tasks hurt

When you havent picked up a crochet hook in months, and you start off stuggling to get to grips with a simple pattern with 1 colour then after several attempts...

When you havent picked up a crochet hook in months, and you start off stuggling ...

bexx87

•5 years ago

1 Reply

Unruptured aneurysm

Are there any people on this site who have felt they were improving but a few days later back to being rotten . Had a 28 mm annie coiled and a stent placed...

Are there any people on this site who have felt they were improving but a few da...

Shon48

•5 years ago

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Trying to have a baby almost 40 and tubes are tied

I'm a 39 year old female who wants a baby with her new husband. 6 in the half years ago I had my tubes tied and burnt I didn't think I would fall in love again...

I'm a 39 year old female who wants a baby with her new husband. 6 in the half ye...

Kell39

•5 years ago

6 Replies

Concern about CT scan

Hello, I struggle with anxiety, I have for a while, but around Thanksgiving time I started to get light headed. I found out I had an ear infection which made...

Hello, I struggle with anxiety, I have for a while, but around Thanksgiving time...

tyswife

•5 years ago

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Gala dinner speech

Honoured to be invited to the Brain & Spine Foundation Charity gala dinner and to speak to help raise awareness and share my story. It was an evening of...

Honoured to be invited to the Brain & Spine Foundation Charity gala dinner and t...

Kavib

•5 years ago

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Ongoing issues following my negative sah

Most of my initial ailments have returned to normal. However, I am still suffering with daily head and neck aches as well as dizzy/balance problems when I walk...

Most of my initial ailments have returned to normal. However, I am still sufferi...

Coralann

•5 years ago

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MCT Oil

Hai, I'm Catherine (user names were gone so I just typed whatever worked). I've been "skulking" around here since I gave myself a concussion in November. I...

Hai, I'm Catherine (user names were gone so I just typed whatever worked). I've...

Feebie8

•5 years ago

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Buzzing / vibration during sleep and semi conscious

Happens to me every night, i get this buzzing or vibration feeling during sleep, i wake up at 5am or so and i can feel it, once i'm awake it fades away! i have...

Happens to me every night, i get this buzzing or vibration feeling during sleep,...

FirasDD

•5 years ago

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Progress meeting for my brother 19 month after tbi

So today we met with the team at where my brother has been getting cared for since his tbi back in July 2017. He now communicates lot better although still...

So today we met with the team at where my brother has been getting cared for sin...

Leab2017

•5 years ago

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I DID IT!!

Yipee! I did it! I paced myself today. I got out of bed gently without too much stiffness and sat on the side of the bed for a while. I made myself a good...

Yipee! I did it! I paced myself today. I got out of bed gently without too much ...

deborah27

•5 years ago

19 Replies

Need some support

Hi guys I am new to this bout could really do with some advice I have had a brain injury to a male neighbour assaulting me 7years ago and I'm finding life a...

Hi guys I am new to this bout could really do with some advice I have had a brai...

Jlo1974

•5 years ago

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Forgot to post the picture :).

Oops :).

Matt2584

•5 years ago

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Bob and Betty

Hi folks, This is my latest drawing. If you saw the last drawing I posted, you would have learnt that a friend of mine from my Headway, Christina, was in the...

Hi folks, This is my latest drawing. If you saw the last drawing I posted, you w...

Matt2584

•5 years ago

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Another knee operation

Had my schedule knee operation done on Tuesday and they discovered while removing the revision knee operation that Apart from all the other complications my...

Had my schedule knee operation done on Tuesday and they discovered while removin...

1949liz

•5 years ago

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Why Can’t I Remember My Accident?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxt BBC world service programme about why memories are lost in an accident. Emotions have a strong element in when...

https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/w3cswvxt BBC world service programme about why ...

Hidden

•5 years ago

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Oh no!!!

Where is homer????

Cj-195

•5 years ago

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Tonights moon

Its lovely and bright (i spotted it as the sun was setting and its so bright its shining though my kitchen window and i couldnt figure out where the light glow...

Its lovely and bright (i spotted it as the sun was setting and its so bright its...

bexx87

•5 years ago

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Tonights sunset

Lovely shades if blue and pinky orange but i missed the sun setting i only saw the reflecting of the setting sun glinting in my neighbours window which caught...

Lovely shades if blue and pinky orange but i missed the sun setting i only saw t...

bexx87

•5 years ago

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Mandatory reconsideration

Hi folks, As some of you may know, I, like thousands of others, was rejected my PIP claim. I am getting a little income for the daily living component for a...

Hi folks, As some of you may know, I, like thousands of others, was rejected my...

Matt2584

•5 years ago

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Large unruptured aneurysm

I had a 28mm aneurysm coiled with 17coils , an artery occluded and a stent placed in April of last year . I September I had another stent inserted to make a...

I had a 28mm aneurysm coiled with 17coils , an artery occluded and a stent place...

Shon48

•5 years ago

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All posts for February 2019

Thick Skin or no awareness?

Scaphoid

Bi polar

Cause of celebration

My son

Ache in shunt.

Sleep

After six months...

What do you do for work?

Light sensitivity HELP please.

Ow it hurts why do using you to do non auto pilot tasks hurt

Unruptured aneurysm

Trying to have a baby almost 40 and tubes are tied

Concern about CT scan

Gala dinner speech

Ongoing issues following my negative sah

MCT Oil

Buzzing / vibration during sleep and semi conscious

Progress meeting for my brother 19 month after tbi

I DID IT!!

Need some support

Forgot to post the picture :).

Bob and Betty

Another knee operation

Why Can’t I Remember My Accident?

Oh no!!!

Tonights moon

Tonights sunset

Mandatory reconsideration

Large unruptured aneurysm

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