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The only problem I've noticed there is that if I get distracted then I completely forget what I was doing and don't drift back to it on my own if that makes any sense. If I stop doing something then I need something to remind me to go back to it like an email coming in or as has just happened I closed a window and noticed one I had been using about 3 hours ago and was in the middle of doing something with.
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I feel for you - hope the scan shows something (and it's easily fixable). ![Rose | [Rose]](https://codeproject.global.ssl.fastly.net/script/Forums/Images/rose.gif)
I've never had all your symptoms, but Morphine has a similar effect on me: it destroys my short term memory for a couple of weeks after I've been given it. (My mother had the same problem after she broke her wrist and assumed it was Alzheimer's setting in) At one point, I was at home on my own with Classic FM on the TV, and The Opera Band started singing Unchained Melody - but I couldn't understand it and thought I'd forgotten English... (Buggers were singing in Italian  )
I didn't like it at all - suddenly you can't trust your own brain and that's not a good feeling at all.
Hope it goes well - I'll be thinking of you.
Those who fail to learn history are doomed to repeat it. --- George Santayana (December 16, 1863 – September 26, 1952)
Those who fail to clear history are doomed to explain it. --- OriginalGriff (February 24, 1959 – ∞)
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OriginalGriff wrote: suddenly you can't trust your own brain and that's not a good feeling at all.
Yeah, doubting yourself is not a good place to be.
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Given the severity of the impact you may have sustained some brain trauma or a concussion. It is like the brains file allocation table has been corrupted. The good news is that most people recover, however it does take time, up to 6 months.
Brain injury can be difficult to diagnose Talk with your GP, the scan is a good start. You may want to do a little research as well.
This an American site, there probably a UK version, but it does contain some good resources for you to look into. http://www.biausa.org/mild-brain-injury.htm[^]
Good luck and wishing you quick recovery.
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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I think the woman who hit me was doing about 60 mph. I don't think I hit my head but obviously there was a very sudden acceleration and the brain does rattle around somewhat.
The other thing driving me crazy ever since is tinnitus. It has been gradually receding but is so irritating, especially when things are quiet.
Had a letter from the police about it the crash yesterday, they are offering the woman some sort of driver awareness course instead of prosecution, which seems reasonable to me.
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I did suffer from a neck injury which lead to some brain swelling and memory problems (some of which still affect me, I have birthday I can't remember (17)). It seemed to me that the problems get less and less over time. Not much help I know, I was laid up in Hospital for a long period and my Mum & Dad had a very awkward summer (I seem to remember running up & down stairs banging my head on the wall). It does get better over time if there is no major issue (some comfort, I know). I was prescribed some very odd medication that upset my stomach (can't remember the name), once I was back under my GP he changed it (still on it) but it gets better. 
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Have you been eating any medicine?
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Just ibuprofen and paracetamol.
I was able to avoid anything with more interesting effects and am not taking much of either of those anymore.
Although I got properly beaten up by my physiotherapist yesterday. It is little more than legalised sadism.
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chriselst wrote: It is little more than legalised sadism
That would depend on whether you enjoy it or not.
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Jörgen Andersson wrote:
That would depend on whether you enjoy it or not.
Not quite, if he enjoyed being given pain, it would be masochism.
If his therapist was enjoying himself by torturing him, then you'd call it sadism.
Cheers!
"I had the right to remain silent, but I didn't have the ability!"
Ron White, Comedian
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Yes, I know about both Marquis de Sade and Ritter von Sacher-Masoch and the differences between them.
I merely failed at being funny.
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chriselst wrote: Dick Swaab
Is it just me, or is that an unfortunate name?
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The Dutch have the best names.
He was in the news recently claiming that smoking when pregnant makes your baby gay.
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No Its not just you, when I first read the title I was thinking the Hamsters will jump on that!
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Hopefully it is, as others said, just a fragmentation issue in the file system and a good defrag will sort it out. Corrupted sectors is what you need to worry about. Do you find that once reminded of things, they stay remindeded? If so that's a Good Thing[TM] as it points to indexing rather than the raw data.
speramus in juniperus
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With the older stuff then yes. Once the link is restored as it were then it is back up and running.
What is more worrying now is the newer stuff that seems to be going in and going missing. Some stuff at the moment it is like I am having to learn over and over again.
The hardest part of explaining it to a doctor is not falling back on computer terminology as it all makes perfect sense to me when I do that.
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[cynism] Aaaahh, so you did not just resist coming back to the Lounge, you simply forgot us ! [/cynism]
Well, this sounds no good, but sometimes, we imagine things far worse than they really are. I hope the scan shed some light on that.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Great to see you back Chris. Sorry to hear the road is so bumpy at present.
Thoughts and well-wishes, hope the defrag is speedy and successful.
I'd always thought tinnitus was based in the ear, though recently read/heard that it has neurological roots - the brain is creating a signal to fill in for the one not being received from the ears. In my case it was from playing with high-explosives as a kid. Mostly, it's rather an irritation for me - other-times it means I don't hear the things that would annoy me, I guess you could say that it works both for and against us. 
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I have heard this is common and memory comes back over the months, so hang in there, it will get better.
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Yes, I went through it as well and after ... after .. wait, what was I just talking about ?
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Back at the end of November I got banned from this site, I received an email with the following charge;
Quote: Your account at CodeProject has been reported as The member is a spammer 5 times and is now deactivated.
I initially thought I had been reported as a spanner, which seemed fair enough (not sure how far the use of spanner as an insult has spread the world).
I sulked at being thrown off and vowed never to return, but as The Lounge is still bookmarked on all my devices I have dropped in for a look now and again, but I resisted signing up again.
This was fairly easy as I was off work throughout the whole of December and so not on a computer very much, but returning to work this year I was naturally in need of something extra to help me avoid the work, and began to browse more, feeling myself drawn back in, wanting to reply.
And still I resisted.
But the need to vent has become too great, sometimes you get exposed to something so dumb at work that just cannot be contained, ranting on conventional social media seems unwise, standing in the office and swearing loudly is clearly an unsafe option, my wife doesn't care and refuses to listen. So I have had to come back here, just to have someone to moan at.
Although much of my immediate ire has ebbed away with the time taken to sign up and type this, I will leave with just the one, quick, question.
Why the elephant do those who make decisions on what to spend money on always believe those trying to sell them stuff and ignore all sensible council from those without a vested financial interest?
I just love having to work around poorly conceived and constructed systems that are inferior to what I could write myself.
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I just reported you as spanner.
Just kidding, welcome back.
~RaGE();
I think words like 'destiny' are a way of trying to find order where none exists. - Christian Graus
Do not feed the troll ! - Common proverb
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Rage wrote: I just reported you as spanner.
Someone already has.
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Hi Chris, welcome back... I still haven't received my set of spanners. 
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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a set of spanners? isnt that the developement team for VB?
You cant outrun the world, but there is no harm in getting a head start
Real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time.
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