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honestly? NOW it IS time to see your doc to just go over your 'head trauma' history and also just for YOU to be evaluated from a neurological standpoint for THIS injury as well. the one thing about having repetitive head injury over time is it very much CAN have that 'cumulative effect" like you would see with boxers over the years of just having their faces and heads slammed, but a bit more profound than your situation. but do you get what i am trying to say here?

i too have suffered ALOT of seperate head traumas over my almost 50 years and in some cases i do think that at least one more profound one really DID 'do' something to my brain in subtle ways. the thing here is ,everyone is different in how their head injury will be or even impact your brain in many different ways. just the fact that this actually occured with you at all(and more importantly the 'symptoms' you have been displaying) really dictates that need to just see even your primary doc so at least you can be looked at from a good neuro standpoint, but this will also just BE IN your medical file in case something else should cause another form of head trauma down the road too.

this is just something you really DO need to have evaluated by a good doc who knows what to look for from a neurological standpoint that you or i just do not actually have? its some hands on testing that they do that can simply show levels of possible impact or reactions to certain stimuli that would determine from the outside if there just IS a need for a look on the inside with some level of real scan like MRI or CT at the very least. chances are that the symptoms will pass with time and brain recovery, BUT you just really do NEED to know where things are at right now. its just one of those better safe than sorry types of situations? simply a 'precuation' that needs to be taken by you.

just make that appt, and by the way DO please tell mom and dad about this(if you were my daughter, trust me here, i would WANT to know) and see what the doc has to say after the exam and if he or she decides to maybe also get that scan done too? but you just DO need to be looked at with the symptoms you are displaying at this point.

just an FYI here for ya, if ANYTHING like this ever should happen again, make darn certain to at the very LEAST tell your mom and dad about it and let THEM decide what to do? also someone other than you that would just be in the very same house and living with you just HAS TO know if you or anyone actually has suffered ANY level of head trauma so if you do not wake up(or you take too long to rouse from sleep) or they start noticing certain things about your behavior that just can occur when the blow to the head is more severe, they can just get you where you NEED to be, in an ER getting some scans done on your head, K? just PLEASE do let another person like mom or dad actually KNOW what took place? it just really IS crucial for YOUR safety and well being or i would not be taking the time here to even tell you. hopefully things are all okay, but you DO need that neuro eval by at least your primary doc at this point hon.good luck to you with this and please let me know how you are doing,K? marcia

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