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I've got a good one for you guys. Just got the latest and first correct DX ever for my deal. Thursday May 15th (my 59 th birthday) The diagnosis is 1. Impulse disorder NOS due to TBI 2. Personality change due to TBI 3. Chronic Anxiety 4. PTSD
This is the only on I trust that I've recieved in the last 39 years. Because I was there, or that is the young me. My first DX was acute Schizo, given @ Wilford hall. I don't blame them, for the wrong DX, they did the best possible for the time. Since then I just lived with it for 15 years. Sometimes in the woods just to stay away from people. Finally went to VA and saw a dozen different phsycs and got a dozen diff DX's None really worked or made sense. o€ne VA regional guy said I should try college because guys like me seemed to do better with an education. Labored thru a BSME degree after 27 days in a PTSD clinic. Had a few good years and started falling apart again. Being employed can be stressful. Finally about a month ago I met a temp Pscyhc from Nashville filling in in Memphis. He said you are not Schizo, I told him thats what they all say but if he'd just refill my clonazapam I'd leave him alone and I thought it might be TBI. He insisted on he getting a CT of the brain. A leasion in the right frontal lobe. I check myself in to psyco ward and get multiple tests, talked to some really good people and when I got the DX I knew it was right. I told the Psych thank you with all my heart and that I finally had a roadmap to recovery. I'm on some pretty strong meds know that are dangerous but I'm tolerating them okay. The best part of this deal is that I finally trust the VA. I've got a lot of other issues and may die tommorow but it'll be by something other than suicide and I'll be much happier than I was a month ago.  |
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Good for you,, I'm glad things are good with you and the VA... Clinazepam is one of my drugs i'm on for anxity. I'm on amitriptyline is for depression, 3 diferrent for sezuires ,, been trying to contol them for 10 years.. still working on them. 13 different meds im on daily mostly 3 times daily.. talking depressing.... SSgt65 |
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What seizure drugs are you on - my wife is on Kepra and Topimax. |
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AMVETS Department of Ohio
63rd Annual State Convention MILLENNIUM HOTEL –CINCINNATI, OHIO JUNE 5-8, 2008 FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2008 1:00 p.m. ...Service Officer Seminar ... Colonnade A The topic is Traumatic Brain Injury Studies are a priority The presenter is DaveBarker. If you can attend please come on down. If you are not a member, I can take care of that. However you do not need to join to sit in on the session. I will cast no stones! Dave Barker |
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A reminder
Ohio AMVETS Convention MILLENNIUM HOTEL –CINCINNATI, OHIO JUNE 5-8, 2008 FRIDAY, JUNE 6, 2008 1:00 p.m. ...AMVETS Service Officer Seminar ... Colonnade A Open to any veteran, or veteran advocate. Just let me know so I will have enough literature. The topic is Traumatic Brain Injury Studies are a priority I will cast no stones! Dave Barker |
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Pachesma thanks. It is news we all need to see over and over again. While for a period, I thought Secrtary Peake was going to be different than Jim Nicholson. It looks as if he is starting to slip into the old mold.
I see TBI vitims and PTSD patients as my clients in my office, not just reading statistics about it, as does the Secretary. It is a serious problem, the Secretary needs to go work in the clinics for a while. I will cast no stones! Dave Barker |
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...AR2007053101608.html
This is the link I posted awhile back on page one of this thread. Apparently even the NFL recognizes that "getting your bell rung" couple-3 times while playing football has the potential to cause issues later in life. With this new VetSec , which is evidently same as the old VetSec(s), the more the VA says things are gonna change the more they're gonna stay the same-JRC |
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"Has Been 5" Lead Moderator Sound Off Forums |
Sadly starting to look like it. He reprimended Dr. Perez of Temple VAMC on her PTSD e-mail gaff and turns around and does this himself to our young troopers. Must be the new philosophy 'don't ask, don't I will cast no stones! Dave Barker |
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The Motto that stands above the inside entrance of the Dept of Veterans Affairs, Wash D.C has become an eye sore reminder and preferred to ignore and perhaps hope by the DVA personnel to be replaced by something more acceptable since we veterans have become such a pain in the *ss
'TO CARE FOR THOSE WHO HAVE BORNE THE BATTLE" Has now been made into a movie 'LOST IN TRANSLATION" Not really, but might as well have been, pathetic SOB's that run the Agency and demand that we humbly acknowledge them and a grateful for every crumb doled out to us |
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Well, there is one point there...
The more we veterans become such a pain in the tookus, the sooner and more these people who think of us all as cogs in a machine or things to be used and tossed away or free loaders or falers or whatever else will have to do better than they have been and are. It's the same thing as always... We need to stand together. We need to speak up. There are SO MANY of us, if we can do that and keep doing it, something definitely will change for the better. But we have to remember to be "we" and to persist, hey? That's the tough part, sometimes. |
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At the present ,, I take Zonisamiide, Clonazepam (also use with other seizures meds) and Lyrica. SSgt65 |
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Yeah like my team Dallas Cowboys ,, Troy Alkman |
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"Has Been 5" Lead Moderator Sound Off Forums |
I finally got on line by renting an Ethernet cable, however due to the convention my access is going to be very limited until next week.
Thanks Dave_M for coming to our training, I am impresssed with you and have now another friend who is there for our fellow veterans! This topic thread was the thesis of our training. I am normally asleep by 7:00 Eastern time and it is now 9:40 and I got to log off. See your tomorrow! I will cast no stones! Dave Barker |
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If you needed an Ethernet cable you should have asked - I had a bunch in my trunk.
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I should have  Gotta go to the first meeting of the day see you later! I will cast no stones! Dave Barker |
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We're seeing a great deal of confusion, as noted in some other posts on this board, in diagnoses between TBI and PTSD. An individual may have one or another or both.
It is incumbent upon DoD, not the VA to properly diagnose and assess a servicemenber's condition prior to discharge, rather than simply dump the servicemember into the VA system. It it wasteful and cause a huge burden upon the now veteran, his family and community at large. "There are those who believe there are two types of people in the world: Those who believe there are two types of people; and those who don't." John Mahoney... |
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A BIG "HOO-AHH" SSgt65 Ron |
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That's why we're all here together. By working together, little by little we can affect change. "There are those who believe there are two types of people in the world: Those who believe there are two types of people; and those who don't." John Mahoney... |
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