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An Interview With Someone Who Has Experienced Three Subdural Hematomas |
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I asked this lady to write about her experiences. I am so honored to be an expert at something.....lol 1st subdural: I thought was a sinus infection. Showed up to work every day thinking, gee....this headache just won't go away. The pain would wake me in the middle of the night. Fortunately my sharp cardiologist who was my boss at the time ordered at CT scan when the antibiotics he prescribed three days earlier hadn't started working. I still thought I had a really bad sinus infection. 2nd subdural: This pain was worse, but the only thing that brought me to ER was the pain had woken me up in the middle of the night. I remembered that from the first one. After a few nights of this I decided one morning at 6:30 to go to ER, even though I really didn't think I was bleeding. By the time I was being transported to Boston this was the worse pain I thought I have ever felt in my life. Morphine did nothing for the pain relief as well as everything else they gave me. The severe pain didn't get relieved until after my burr hole evacuation which relieved the intense pressure I was feeling. 3rd subdural: One week later.........had been home from Boston for one day but was admitted to a local hospital within 24 hrs of Boston discharge for heparin. Within 24 hours of the heparin being started my CT scan showed I was bleeding again. This pain was just as bad if not worse. Back to Boston and I endured that pain for several days. I don't know why they didn't operate this time other than maybe where I had a stroke right after the surgery maybe they were hesitant and decided to watch the bleed to see if it stopped. I was in too much pain to ask or care to be honest. Motto is: there are different levels of pain depending on how much bleeding is going on. My INR wasn't in range the first bleed (it was high -maybe 6 or 7) but WAS in range the second bleed, so don't go by your INR. As the bleeding continues in your brain the pressure that builds up is the most intense pain you can ever feel which is why I opted to have my mechanical valve removed. There was no way I was going back on Coumadin since I seemed to be prone to bleeding incidents. If you have severe pain that you know is not a migraine (I got lots of migraines with an aura) get checked out. You don't want a bleed to get out of control. © 2004 Gisele Levasseur Used by permission. SEE A CATALOG OF PUBLICATIONS AVAILABLE FROM LODWICK CREATIONS, LLC. LEARN HOW YOU CAN BECOME LISTED ON THE HONOR ROLL OF SUPPORTERS AND TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THE BENEFITS REQUEST A MEDICATION CONSULTATION CHECK OUR LINE OF "HAD YOUR RAT POISON TODAY?" MERCHANDISE
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