The traffic stalled on the highway and I was forced to stop in heavy traffic. I heard a crash behind me. Then it was dark and felt as if I was tumbling around in clothes dryer. What had happened was that a large teaching truck’s brakes failed. My car with me and my grandson in it was hit three times from various sides. I got out of the car, functional to some degree as I drove by ambulance to the hospital for an X-Ray.
I was always healthy and I did not have a family doctor before the crash, who would have known how my health was. I have learned from this that a family doctor is good to have and that it does not go so well if no doctor understands how well you used to be It is really good to have a family doctor. My new doctor first prescribed several massages.
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Constant back pain.
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Pain in neck and back of skull.
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Pain moving head forward and back.
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Back pain during the night.
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Less flexibility when driving and turning head.
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Headaches on the back, on top and at the front.
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Mentally not alert.
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Pain front of chest (belt).
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When I exerted myself intense pain on top of skull and in the back, especially on top. It was unbearable.
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Pain in right upper shoulder, then in the left.
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Feeling as if I had a lead ball in the back of my head constantly.
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Frequent memory lapses.
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Pain in front of head.
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Fearful of driving on highway.
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Cognitive mistakes.
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Difficult to focus and remember.
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Dizzy and poor balance when I get up during the night, often I would fall against the wall--one year later, I still struggled with this, I nearly fainted twice.
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Ringing in left ear.
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Nausea in the evening.
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Double vision, noticed it when I wanted to thread a needle, making reading difficult, vertical and horizontal lines I saw as double.
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Floaters in my left eye, and like rays around eye when I closed it, weird, the eyes still don’t seem right, sometimes it feels like a veil over my eyes.
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At the beginning my right hand has a very slight tremor, and now it is the left one.
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Twitching in my face, right upper lip.
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Pain in my tailbone and neck.
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Headaches mostly in the forehead top and back.
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For four years, I woke up every 1-2 hours, now it is once or twice per night.
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Pain in left hip.
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For over four years, I had to cry when I talked about the accident.
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Clicking in neck, four times when I turned it to the left and twice when to the right.
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Continual cramps in my legs.
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For about four years, I had a high pitched noise in top of my head, not in my ears as my doctor wanted me to believe.
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Anxiety and nausea in the morning for about 5 years.
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Four years later I suddenly could not move, standing at the sink, I touched with my left hand the neck – click – still could not move – second click then it was ok.
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In 2009 I went swimming; don’t dare to do that anymore because I nearly fainted when turning around.
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Twice I could not stand up from a bend down position, although these symptoms were helped that with a magnetic roller from Nikken.