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[Icarus's Wings]

This is my first post here after reading through this forum religiously for a few months.  

 

 

Anyway this is my story.

 

 

After a heavy night of drinking, I lost my balance on a long stairway and ended up landing on my head.  Very hard.  And so, my friends, realizing I was too intoxicated, decided to take me to the hospital where we found out I was at a sky-high BAC of .42.  

 

4 months after the incident, I feel healthy physically, but I feel as if I am now mentally impaired.  Some of my symptoms are, messing up words and replacing it with a relative word (saying boat instead of car), struggling to speak with flow, mispronunciation of words, difficulty constructing sentences, thinking off the top of my head, brain fog that impedes my thought process, loss of concentration? (Not really sure how to describe that one), organization issues, degrading auditory comprehension and inability to hold too many things in my head (as if my RAM has short-circuited).  

 

After weeks of research I've concluded that I am suffering from some form of aphasia or dyslexia caused by a stroke.  In my search to find a treatment, I've currently found that -Racetams, Dexamphetamine, Donepezil and Speech therapy can greatly improve the recovery time for post-stroke patients.  

 

Currently I've been using Piracetam, 1.6g 3 times a day with subtle improvements.  Being that I am studying engineering in college, I am looking for any supplement, nootropics, or any prescribed drugs that can help alleviate my symptoms both on the short and long term.  

 

 

Well here's the point, 

 

 

Is there anyone else who is suffering from something like this?

 

and if so, have you recovered from this and what helped pave your way to your recovery?

 

What could I do to recover my basic cognitive and comprehension functions?

 

 

Any input would be appreciated, 

 

 

 

 

 

[Mind_Paralysis]

Question - wasn't your head scanned with either fMRI or CT when you went in? That's standard procedure in my jurisdiction - if one hits ones head to the point of losing consciousness.

 

Do you have any of the image-data from the scanning, if that's the case?

 

 

And have you actually talked to health-care about your issues? Have you consulted with a neurologist about this? Before we suggest anything, we need more information on the specifics of your POTENTIAL brain-damage - we need to know for certain that you had a stroke, that this is what's causing this - we also need to see PRECISELY where the damage is - chosing compounds which affect neurogenesis in the precise area where your brain was damaged could help immensely - but we have NO friggin' clue as to where exactly your brain was damaged, so we would be shooting in the dark - perhaps meaninglessly.

 

We need more info here man... otherwise we're just going to waste both time and resources - please, get your brain scanned with fMRI or PET, we have to see what it looks like.

Edited by Stinkorninjor, 23 March 2017 - 08:16 AM.