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What Causes Short Term Memory Loss And Migraine After The Head Being Hurt?

Last Jan. 2012, I fell down 14 cement stairs, sleepwalking, i was found by my husband in a pool of blood at the bottom of basement staircase. Went to ER I had 3 brain bleeds, contunsions, consusions, and a lot of blood pooling in and on my brain. In ICU for 5 days until blood finally started to reabsord. Was told by to Nerosurgerons at ICU I was lucky to be alive. I now suffer from short term memory loss and went and got help from clinic on training brain but still suffer from memory loss short term and have severe headaches 4 weekly worse than migraines. I also suffer from latent t.b. which I got in the dominicom republic 4 years and was treated for 9 months on antiobiotics for the t.b. Then just 3 months ago I suffered from sesptic shock and had absesses in both my thighs drained out over 6 liters of puss had 2nd surgery when found more infection a week later. I am scheduled to have mri of my brain this week for possible infection on brain with headaches getting worse and my crp count goes high and back and forth. Do you think I have done something do my brain and if I have an infection on the brain how will they diagose it and treat it. Do you think I have an immune defieceny problem after having t.b. and having septic shock? Any suggestions on what treatment I should seek or type of doctor to work with. My infectious disease doctor says I may not have a long life to live with all these complications and my immume systems is weak and get pneamonia every year, I am 50 years old. He asked me if I had started to plan my funeral, to lighten me up but he did say my life will be shorten as I age my body will not be able to fight infection since I had tb and sespis etc and now what is going on with my my headaches. Your help please, thank you.
Mon, 8 Jun 2015
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Neurologist 's  Response
Dear Patient,
You may have residual memory difficulties due to the brain injury and bleeding of 1-12. Headaches may also stem from that injury. A spinal puncture or spinal tap would be helpful to look for possible meningitis, but a Brain MRI should be useful to look for localized brain infections such as abscesses. Thank you.
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What Causes Short Term Memory Loss And Migraine After The Head Being Hurt?

Dear Patient, You may have residual memory difficulties due to the brain injury and bleeding of 1-12. Headaches may also stem from that injury. A spinal puncture or spinal tap would be helpful to look for possible meningitis, but a Brain MRI should be useful to look for localized brain infections such as abscesses. Thank you.