9YRS MEMORY LOSS - CAN ANYONE RELATE TO THIS?

While I have never had this personal experience, I have treated patients, as part of a treatment team, that experienced blows to the head. Many of these patients had some memory loss, from minor loss to complete loss of memory about themselves and their lives.

The good news is that the brain probably never stops healing after an injury. It goes on healing for years. We used to think that the time for healing was very short, but research int he last 10 years shows otherwise. In this case, do not give up hope.

A SUCCESSFUL RESULT

The best results I had with a memory loss patient involved a woman that had hit her head while she was driving and was struck by another driver.

After this individual was released from the hospital, she found that she could remember very little about numbers, especially accounting. This was a problem, because she held a high level accounting position in a large company.

Losing the ability to use numbers and accounting procedures made her job impossible and she was feeling disoriented, helpless, and unhappy. She probably though ehr career was over, and with it, a good portion of her life.

Through several weeks of relaxation therapy followed by mental imagery drills and other brain exercises, this individual regained her abilities in accounting and could resume her high level job and her career.

OTHER CASES

I was involved with a few memory loss cases that were of a more severe nature. Some people forgot part of the English language, which was their native language. It was very frustrating for them and often led to depression and anger. The use of specially designed computer programs to stimulate the brain helped over time, but it took many months of almost daily work. Today, a decade later, the computer technology has improved and brain-injured patients are likely helped to a far greater extent in a short time.

HOPE

Wright State University has been working for decades on remedies for severed spinal cords and have achieved profound progress in this field, along with other universities and medical complexes. Brain treatments are improving daily and memory loss will hopefully be a thing of the past one day.

Before Christopher Reeve died, he was able to take steps on his own under water. The water supported much of his weight and the constant physical therapy and other modes of treatment began to help the severed nerves in his spinal cord grow out and re-attach to each other. He had already recovered the feeling in his hands before he became able to take several steps under water.

Considering all of this, don't give up hope.

Ask your doctor about possible treatments or exercises that might work to restore your memory. If your doctor is not encouraging you in this matter, then perhaps you should find another doctor.

From the current research findings, I sincerely believe that the brain never stops healing. It may be a slow process at times and if injury is severe enough, we might not be able to live long enough for complete healing, but go for as much healing as you can get.

In the meantime, try to enjoy who you are now.

ONE MORE CASE

Several years ago viewed a film about a woman that suffered complete amnesia in a car accident. She was willing to stay with her husband, even though she no longer knew who he was. Her husband began over with her and took her to the place that they spent their first date, etc. and she fell in love with him again and together they built a very similar life to what they once knew.

At the time I saw the documentary, several years after the traffic accident, this woman loved her husband, but did not remember him from before the accident. He was very sad about it, so I hope he saw a counselor to help him with this. Sometimes memories are not everything. She was alive and in love with him; she could have been killed and was not.

Much success to you, no matter what happens!