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NW Iowa | John your story got me to thinking about my own dilemma. When I was in fifth grade I fell in a corn crib and was in a semi-coma for three days. I don't remember much for the next week after that. I did not have balance problems from this at the time, all through my young days and into my late 40's I had good balance. Then sessions of vertigo began to set in, the crystal floating in the ear type of vertigo. I have had maybe 25 fairly significant sessions of vertigo since first onset but I have quit going to the therapist for it because he can't crank my neck enough to make the therapy work because of a neck surgery in 2008. A hard bump to the head can start this type of vertigo. Now my balance is just like what you describe as your problem. My balance isn't the best when I first stand up but after I am up and going for fifteen minutes or so I feel OK, I can walk fairly straight with my eyes closed but I don't dare turn around very fast or I will be staggering.
What I am getting at is maybe I have something related to post polio syndrome. If a person gets a mild case of polio at a young age where a limited amount of nerve cells are lost other nerve cells come to bat and take over to make up for the loss of the affected cells. When a polio victim gets old those cells that have done extra work to compensate get weak and ineffective and the crippling effect of polio comes back. I wonder if that is what is happening in my case only instead of losing cells from polio the brain cells were lost from the concussion I had so many years ago. My mother got polio when I was 7 months old and was crippled for life, that's why I am more alert to polio symptoms. Sadly she passed away from cancer when she was 46. | |
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Tramatic brain injury and concussions
