Any Medical Help???

[janb]

Hi all

Good morning

Dont know wether this is the right place to post or even the right site but i like this site as you guys have always given great advice in the past and i am hoping that someone out there with some medical knowledge can hopefully put me a little bit at ease as i am so worried

I brief outline of the story... i have been suffering from blackouts resulting in head injuries and recently suffered my 2nd one which involved a 10 day stay in hospital not much of which i remember!

I have now received an appointment for a head mri scan and am worried sick...please can someone shed any light on these discharge notes from the doctor??? Not sure if this is just a check up or something more serious?

Diagnosis

multiple intracranial contusions and occipital skull fracture to fall

Comments

Admitted with fall and seizural eopisodes after wards witnessed tonic clonic episodes in casualty, was confused and ct brain showed multiple IC contusions left frontal lobe and possible rt frontal lobe adjacent to cribriform plate, occipital skull fracture noted suggested to do ct angio and later mri brain as OPA

CT angio was NAD, no vascular lesions

She was stated on phenytion 100mg

She remained confused and ataxic and was started on dexamthasone 4mg bd for 3/7 after that she felt a lot better her urine dipstick was done which was negative

Sorry its long but im so worried....thx janb x

[Gbarbm]

Hi Jan,

Sorry to hear of your problems.

So to translate..

An intracranial contusion means you bruised the inside of your head and occipital fracture means you cracked the forehead bone or possibly your eye socket obviously when you fell.

There are lots of reasons why you can suffer blackouts so the doctors are carrying out diagnostic tests to rule out things like blood vessel problems, epilepsy and things like that.

The good thing is the CT angio ( computerised tomography angiogram) is NAD (no abnormal defects) which seems to suggest that there are no obvious blood vessel problems.

Phenytoin is an anti epileptic drug, the tonic/clonic seizures witnessed by the staff followed by the confusion is indicative of epilepsy but is by no means conclusive proof of it. Tonic/clonic seizures refer to the actions of the muscles which involuntary tense and relax during a seizure.

Ataxic refers to difficulty in moving or walking.

MRI as OPA means Magnetic radiology imaging (a type of scan that takes x rays of the body in layers) as out patients appointment.

So don't think the worst, it could be any number of things , you'll feel better when you know what it is and that is what the doctors are trying to do.

In the meantime rest and eat well.

By the way I am not a doctor but I am a qualified nurse although not currently practicing.

Best wishes

Gbarbm

[Gbarbm]

Sorry Jan

MRI = magnetic RESONANCE imaging..... :-/

[janb]

thanks very much Gbarbm you have put my mind at rest for the weekend ....i knew someone would know

 

thanks again

janb

x

[Gbarbm]

Take it easy lovely... I'm saying a little prayer for you x