What type of injury is this?

Question

Back when I was a kid I was working on my bike and I knew I needed oil to lubricate my bike chain. I was around 8-12 years old. Then I climb this table to get the oil and my shirt got stuck on the nail of the cubboard door. The thing was so old that it fell down and the weight of that pulled me down. After that I had hit my head on the solid garage floor on my left side of my head. During that experience I felt very dizzy, off balance, it was so painful I felt like crying, and blurred vision. I then went upstairs and went to sleep cause I felt really sleepy. The next morning I woke up with a fever and a terrible headache. My eyes became sensitive to light and I had pains in my eye whenever I looked around. Can someone tell me about this? What doctor I should see and what tests are involved? I am typing this message now because back then I am 21 now, but back then I was scared, but it could be the cause of my learning disorders.

I did thought it was a concussion, but I was able to remember things. Although the drop was pretty high and I was really short.

The main reason why I put this post up is determine something. I had a long list of mental disorders and what I remember was that incident of me falling down on a solid concrete floor of the garage. The impact of that was so bad I could not handle the pain. Today I went and saw my psychologist and was diagnosed with Generalized Anxiety Disorder with Major Depression, I also had lots of phobias and was really paranoid, I even had learning disorders I could never grasp the knowledge no matter how many times I practiced it. So when my psychologist did the diagnosis she asked me if I ever had head traumas so I mentioned that part. I was also told that I had personality disorder and had this image in my head of two personalities fighting each other but it would always be endless. So she came to a conclusion of giving me a DSM-IV Axis 5. So I just want to know what injury it was and to find out if that injury caused all of my symptoms.

The other thing was I am not well coordinated, if I were to shoot a basketball I would always miss the rim I can't even tell if I am shooting straight. I also had another medical evalaution of a problem that I am going through now. I started slowing down and felt really sleepy and could never finish my activies like I use to before. So I am hoping this would be an answer to my questions.

Answer 1

Calling the shots on an injury that old would be nearly impossible. You may well have had a concussion, and from the sounds of it that's highly likely. You were also very frightened and that would have just compounded things as far as pain and the after effects. However, it was likely mild, since you didn't need to see a doctor and seem to have recovered well enough. I doubt highly it is an explaination for learning disorders, since those become apparent much earlier in life and have more to do with the wiring of the brain. That was determined at your conception, during your fetal development, birth and the first few years of your life. Even if you had had a concussion way back then, it has long since healed and likely has left no evidence at all. The brain, like the rest of the body, has some ability to heal itself. A concussion is more like a brain bruise, and bruises heal without a trace. So testing at this point would show nothing and tell very little. It's the history of traumatic head injury that doctors have to use, with a few exceptions. If an injury causes damage to tissue that kills it, or changes the electrical function, that damage can be detected. But it can also be present without any history of head injury at all. Sorry, but if you are looking for explainations, you will have to dig deeper and do more research. The incident you mention isn't really significant enough to do the job.

Answer 2

Sounds like a concussion

Answer 3

See a neurologist.

Answer 4

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neurology