Jello wrote:

flynn23 wrote:

Jello wrote:
Last Monday I was in a car accident and suffered a severe concussion that didn't manifest symptoms for 24 hours (weird, I know). Since then I've periodically lost the ability to speak. I go from normal speech to slurring, to mute. Its being looked at, but the reason I made this thread is because... I realized that it is exactly like TCP packets overloading the sliding window, or a web server with limited resources getting too many requests: overload the throughput on the queue and everything after that is lost.

So I made a diagram tonight when I had a bad episode to prove I can still think.

When things are bad, and I fill the shrunken word queue, I can't speak until it self empties. Full empty seems to take between 30 seconds and one minute, and seems to happen at a linear rate. However, if I limit myself to the actual word queue/minute throughput, I can speak continuously for a longer period. Normal speed speech very quickly fills the queue though.

Strange, but accurate. If my mind is a Turing Machine, my word queue is malfunctioning and is too small to hold enough words to speak normally.

Dude! Please tell me that you've talked to a doctor and specifically gotten an appointment with a neurologist to look at this?!! PCS is VERY serious and if not properly monitored and treated shortly after the trauma, can result in irreversible damage. I speak from personal experience and have also had loved ones who had devastating consequences from not properly managing PCS.

Great graphs btw!

PCS is untreatable, so I'm not sure what you mean?

I've been to the ER twice with 'issues.' Got a neurologist appointment monday. But there's nothing they can do to fix it, if it is PCS. They can just make sure its not something worse and dope me up until the worst part passes.

I'm ok with the slurring actually. It would suck, but would make me a better listener. The headaches and confusion and crappy feelings I won't deal so well with if they persist for a long time.

You're right, but I want to make sure you're under the care and eye of a physician and not just winging it off of some shit you find on webmd. One very important and big thing about PCS is that you need rest and low stimulus for awhile, so maybe not the best thing to be playing guitar hero or shredding down a mountain bike path. If you find graphing "relaxing", then I guess that would be okay, but I'd try and really take it easy in a quiet and low stimulus environment for awhile if you're still having confusion and other mental anomalies. An ex-gf had to take 4 months off of EVERYTHING to rehab, but she was a particularly acute case dealing with many years of compounded issues.

RE: My Post Concussive Syndrome Speech Disorder: A Malfunctioning Word Queue