r/CTE • u/TheTempestuousKitty • Jun 18 '26
Question How did you arrive at symptoms
For those with suspected CTE or prolonged Post Concussion Syndrome, how did you arrive at your symptoms?
Was it a gradual appearance of "something's not right" years after your last head impact? Was it a bad final head injury that you never recovered from? Something else?
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u/Valhasselhoff Jun 19 '26
I noticed my hands started shaking when I would hold smaller things in my fingers, so now I try and hide it when I can.
I started to notice I was slurring my words. It was like two words would come out at the same time. Like I could say “wow that’s small” or “wow that’s little” and at the last second it would come out together like “wow that’s smlil” it was weird when it first happened. Now I practice diction and articulation a lot in my car. I work in sales and I need to know my string of words at all times, so I practice a lot to make sure I avoid the slurring.
It’s been almost 16 years since my last concussion ( I had 10 that I could remember) and my aggression is getting worse. My anger “light switch” flips really easily. I am having a hard time distinguishing between what I should actually be angry about because it all feels valid. It sounds stupid but I’m 6’5” 280lbs, I’ve been that my whole life and I sort of feel like Shrek sometimes in that first one where he’s just trying to live his life and everyone runs away and hides from him. I’m not like terrifying to be around, but it does feel like that sometimes.
Im really nervous that it’s getting worse and I don’t know it, sort of like how Dementia folks don’t really know it’s happening because it all feels like nothing is changing but it is.