Posted on January 17, 2013 · Posted in TBI Voices
This entry is part 18 of 34 in the series Craig

Brain Injury Vision Issues: Craig Part Eighteen 

Craig discusses the brain injury vision issues along with some hearing problems he has experienced after his traumatic brain injury.

Brain Injury Vision Issues after TBI

 

You talked about some brain injury vission issues and hearing problems.  Tell me about that.

Visual is still my worst, like in the morning when I wake up –  I have 20/20 vision.   I go into the morning and it’s morning time, 20/20 vision.  If I go at night maybe 60/80.  I mean, it’s that bad.  And I have different prisms.  I don’t know if you know people who have different, prescriptions of prisms.  I was just noticing, last night that I’m putting so much strain on my brain that none of the prisms are sufficient enough now to, when I strain my brain I get in such a cycle.

So one of your brain injury vision issues is your  vision deteriorates as you get tired.

As I get tired and after it starts at about six, eight hours.

Now,  your brain injury vision issues, are they related to the headaches at all?

That I don’t think so because believe it or not I have worse headaches when I’m more awake than I do when I’m getting tired.  I don’t know that I’m just more aware of them, but I push myself.  I work probably 15 hours, 16 hours a day, seven days a week.

Brain Injury Hearing Issues after TBI

What problems are you having with your hearing?

Right now it’s not too bad but originally it was I guess you could call it Superman hearing.  I could literally hear like bugs crawling on me.  I mean, it was so accentuated that I could hear a pin drop and of course when you have a stimulation problem to be that sensitive to sound, it was really hard in the beginning, especially having two young kids.  So you can imagine I was nutty by the end of the night.

Did anybody ever suggest that the problem wasn’t your hearing but the filter, the inability to filter out all of that noise?

No.  No, I never really dealt with the audio part of it and to this day I still, when I gets tired it feels like it’s clogged almost like there’s rocks in it.

Next in Part Nineteen – Management of Seizures Post Severe Brain Injury

 

 

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Attorney Gordon S. Johnson, Jr.
Past Chair Traumatic Brain Injury Litigation Group, American Association of Justice
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