Head injuries and links to Dementia

I did this with voice activated software, taking my time, in trying to piece together something that happened in the early 1980s before things went totally off in the early 2000s

Many years before my diagnosis, I had a fall from a ladder from around 10 feet and vaugley remember hitting my head which sounded like an explosion at the time, then nothing

i woke up feeling drunk and unstable, unsure as to what had happened or where I was, then I realised that I needed to go to the toilet to have a pee

Moments later I realised that I had mistaken a washbasin for a urinal, and then had to wash it all away and clean in as I was embarrassed that I had done such a thing

I then went back to where I had been working, and was staggered to see the damage I had done, because I thought I could manage on my own, instead of waiting for my colleague

At this stage I was still unstable and felt drunk, and my head felt as if it had been hit by a very large hammer

I went home as my leg was bleeding, and later that night my wife took me to hospital as the top right hand side of my head was badly bruised, but they didn’t want to know anything about it.

I struggled with head aches for many years, but around 5 years later I was driving the car with my daughter in, got home but didn’t remember anything about the journey or the traffic lights I had gone through, luckily my daughter said they were green, but I honestly didn’t know

My wife said she found me in the car in tears as I didn’t know what was going on and thought I may have killed or injured my dear daughter

After a lot of tests I was told that it was a form of epilepsy and I had had a seizure.

When I returned to work I was put on restricted duty’s, which was a nightmare as an engineer, as I was not allowed to use step ladders etc

When I was later diagnosed as having dementia, they said that I hadn’t had a seizure but it could have been the start of the dementia something which never made sense

Now it appears that research is being done into the links between head injuries and memory problems, so I am starting to wonder if my head injury was the cause of all of my problems

It was later found that an MRI scan showed signs of cerebral atrophy and ischemia, which made matters worse and was confusing because no one picked up on this, but by then I was under a neurological specialist who was going by my symptoms and thought it was Lewy body dementia

one of the university medical doctors thought at the time that I had something like , encephalitis but the scans came up negative, so after these later scans I am more confused

A Recent research project by “Alzheimer’s Reseach “ has started to prove that head injuries can cause many problems and possibly Dementia, 20 or so years later, so I am hoping this can throw a light on what is going on

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