Brain Scarring and or Damage

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The last time I saw my Neurologist, he brought up the fact that because of the bleed, I may have scar tissue on my brain & I've read this can lead to more seizures. He didn't go into detail but he did mention it. I plan to ask him about it at next appointment.

In all my research and cosidering I have had all these head traumas, I think I DO have some damage. I experience short term memory loss. I'll think of something I want to say or do that can be important or maybe not important but want to remember and I can forget what it is seconds to minutes later.

I have to write down things I want to do later or tell someone later in the distant future or days later and sometimes I remember later and other times never again.

My hands shake more than they used to and I can become confused in certain situations and sometimes I start to say something the way I word it in my brain but it comes out different just as I have done those times I write down stuff and then it doesn't make sense.

I know I have probably had more than one seizure but not grand mals, I only had one of those but I figure I've had Partial complex ones but if I have, they weren't that serious and luckily never when I'm driving.

Has anyone ever had their doctor tell them they have scar tissue on the brain? I'm wondering if I do have scarring, if it wasn't there before the bleed and was the culprit for the seizure. Hospital report says that they suspect previuos head trauma was the culprit for the seizure and this is in spite of me telling them I'd been hospitalized for high potassium and kidney failure.

I have absolutely no memory of the Grand Mal but I'm sure no one does really since a lot result in unconciousness. BTW, my long term memory is great. I can remember things I did or things that happened more than 30 years ago, sometimes longer, as far back as early childhood.
 
Has anyone ever had their doctor tell them they have scar tissue on the brain? I'm wondering if I do have scarring, if it wasn't there before the bleed and was the culprit for the seizure. Hospital report says that they suspect previuos head trauma was the culprit for the seizure and this is in spite of me telling them I'd been hospitalized for high potassium and kidney failure.
Have any of the MRIs you've had shown any scarring on your brain?

I had tonic clonic seizures as a baby (from 9 months - 3 1/2 years) & then was seizure free until I started taking seizures again in 2002 when I was almost 25. MRIs I've had have shown scaring on my left front temporal lobe which helped the neurologist diagnose me with left front temporal lobe epilepsy.
I had brain surgery to remove the scarring on my left front temporal lobe March 2011.
All the specialists I've seen over the last few years (Neurologists, Epitiologists, Neurosurgeon) all believe that the scarring I had was from the tonic clonics I had as a baby but no one knows why I went 22 years between seizures.
 
I wouldn't know a scar on my MRI if I saw it and actually now that I think of it, it wasn't last time I saw him but time before. He just said it could develop as a result of the bleed, didn't say there was. I still know I must have after effects of all the traumas & they think the seizure was brought on by trauma
 
I wouldn't know a scar on my MRI if I saw it .
Your Neurologist should be able to know what scarring on the MRI looks like.
I once looked at my MRIs I'd had done to see if I could see the scarring but I had no idea what the scar looked at either & to me it was just a brain.
When I met the epitiologist in 2012 he looked at my MRIs & pointed to the exact spot where the scarring was which was pretty interesting.
 
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small cross shapped scar in the right temporal lobe,
 
Well considering the blood was on the right side and they cut into my scalp and drilled a hole in my skull, there could be scarring. I read that just bleeding can scar the brain cause it can't repair itself when there is no place for the blood to go. They told me there was like 2 inches of blood on top of my brain, it's a wonder I'm alive

They told me that the blood was old and had started to coagulate. When the brain sufferes a injury or a bleed, the pressure on the brain can become significant and the brain is trying to repair itself and since the blood might still be there, it has no place to go so the brain forms a scar. The vessels that bled close off and are replaced with scar tissue, depending on the severity of the trauma. Kind of like when you have surgery that leaves a scar. The body is trying to close off the part that's been severed and can't repair itself and its replaced with scar tissue.

I have a big scar on my abdomen from the abdominal surgery. For the brain surgery, after they'd drained the blood, they put in a tube with little bulb on the end, much like what you see on the old fashioned blood pressure machines they have in doctors offices to pump up the cuff. Whatever blood was left they couldn't get drained into that bulb.
 
Here is some pics I took just after surgery, like two days after. You can obviously see where they made the incision and the red spot next to it is where they had the drain & where the hole in my head is. lol

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<---You can see the swelling on side of head
 
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