Comments on: Traumatic Brain Injury And Veterans

By: rr02

rr02 — Fri, 29 Nov 2013 01:29:00 +0000

Yep, and twenty years of jumping out of airplanes are finally catching up though working this through the VA system will be interesting. Mostly periodic unsteadiness and memory loss, I think ;-}
Let’s get this one moving, a lot of anecdotal study material to work with.

By: Michael Patrick Brewer

Michael Patrick Brewer — Wed, 30 Oct 2013 08:20:00 +0000

One car accident while on Liberty, and two blast injuries in Vietnam, and I was bedazzled every day in College about why I could not concentrate. It took 28 years to get the proper diagnosis. Think of those poor WWl vets from the trenches in France.

By: Joanna Lane

Joanna Lane — Tue, 29 Oct 2013 15:26:00 +0000

I cannot understand why veterans aren’t routinely checked for PTHP (post-traumatic hypopituitarism) which shares some symptoms such as depression with PTSD and is *treatable*! Studies by Guerrero and Wilkinson put the incidence of PTHP after mild TBI among veterans at between 30% and 80%. It seems to me perverse, even wicked, that this well documented route to helping blast injury victims to recover is pushed under the carpet and ignored. See

Guerrero AF, Alfonso A, Traumatic brain
injury-related hypopituitarism: a review and recommendations for screening
combat veterans, Mil Med 2010 Aug;175(8):574-80. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20731261

and

Wilkinson CW et al, High Prevalence of Chronic
Pituitary and Target-Organ Hormone Abnormalities after Blast-Related Mild
Traumatic Brain Injury, Front
Neurol. 2012;
3: 11. http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3273706/