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What happens in a comatose patient?

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Lack of consciousness
Lack of self-awareness
Lack of sleep-wake cycle
Lack of purposeful movements


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Posted by:  cllaud  Posted on: 01/17/2012
i am a coma survivor, a coma that came naturally after a traumatic brain injury. There is too little space here to get into my story, but I would like to say that I have completely recovered. Recovered my memories, my old personality, my self-image, my ability to hold a self-image, my brain power and functionality and more. It's taken my whole life - I've worked on myself and my recovery since the accident happened.

I'd love to share my story with you, so that I can clear up misconceptions, and help others. I know what woke me up, and I'd like to share that most of all.

Thank you and I do hope I hear back from you. I have so much to share!

Best,



Posted by:  shawi  Posted on: 01/25/2012
hi cheryl! i have a sister today in hospital and she's comatose. she gave birth at dawn today and had ceasarian. doctor's found out that she never went on pre-natal til 8months! she had diabetes and high blood. Please help!



Posted by:  Cowgirl352  Posted on: 01/26/2012
Hi Cheryl, Could you please tell me your story? My brother has been in a coma since Sunday. He is only 23 years old. He had a traumatic injury but I am just believing that God will wake him up. You say that you remember what woke you up. Could you please share? Thank you. My family and I are in need of a miracle.



Posted by:  christyshaw(Guest)  Posted on: 01/31/2012
Hi cheryl can u please email me a family friend of ours was in an accident n would like too talk too someone about it can u email me or look me up on facebook?



Posted by:  monica1(Guest)  Posted on: 02/08/2012
WOW... Please fill me in with everything my sisters baby jus had open heart surgery, n is now in a coma n not doin well?? How long will this take?



Posted by:  kathgeo43(Guest)  Posted on: 02/09/2012
Hi cheryl I would love to here your story .A friends son has been in a coma for 2 months after a TBI




Posted by:  Iyer51  Posted on: 01/17/2012
I am on a trail to prepare an oil for applying on coma patient. Wish to meet and apply this oil so that the patient recovers. It is pure Chemistry.



Posted by:  shariloomis  Posted on: 12/19/2011
My grandmother went to the dentist to get her teeth pulled and she was told her oxygen level was at 85%. knowing that the dentsit still put her under. her heart stopped and they had to perform cpr. she came back with a heart rate of 10% and is in a coma for about a week now. the doctors here at ministry st joseph marshfield had not been giving her any pain meds because they say shes not in pain. now she is becuase of request and she is progressing slowly. I dont know what to do. they say if she wakes up she has brain damage and might be in vegetable state. there convincing my grandpa to pull the plug. we all love her soo much and i pray that ending her life isnt his choice because i know thats not what she wants.


Posted by:  ajkPatient  Posted on: 12/20/2011
My advice is to keep her alive; don't let the doctor pull the plug. That is what we have done with my Grandmother, many times [even though the doctors never thought it possible she would keep fighting and keep living]. If it is at all possible keep her alive and continue to pray for her life.



Posted by:  ajkPatient  Posted on: 12/20/2011
In any event, I am wishing for you and your whole family healing, hope, and the abundence of life.




Posted by:  Mike62(Guest)  Posted on: 11/25/2011
Hello, I was in a Coma for 14 Days In 1978. I broke my femur,cut my right ear,broke 2 ribs. I was 16,now I am 49.


Posted by:  shariloomis  Posted on: 12/19/2011
did you hear anyone talking to you? can you remember that at all? my grandma is in a coma because of a dentists mistake



Posted by:  JMcD92(Guest)  Posted on: 01/16/2012
Hello, I am a film student writing a script about a coma patient, and I was wondering if I could ask you a few questions.




Posted by:  ann_11(Guest)  Posted on: 11/19/2011
my father in law was in coma for 2days.. doctors told us, if he wakes up he would be in vegetable state.. the family then decided to let him go..he's now reunited with Christ in Heaven..



Posted by:  JJJJ5  Posted on: 09/02/2011
Recovery from coma should be "a piece of cake" for the brain...if we wait enough, and stimulate enough.
Why coma patients die? For depression [i.e. fear and lack of faith]...causing decreasing in the immune response...then infections...and death.
What might be happening, then? We, the family, are too scare to deal with the patient! We think we can not make it to the end of the whole recovery! Medical doctors help to think in this way, or simply amplify this way of thinking.
But if we check what the brain can do during development and in our daily life, it will be really not a surprise to realize that reconnection and born of new neurons should be a peace of cake. Believe me, reconnection is not "rocket science" for neurons...they can deal with really challenging problems. Finding the way to reconnect is a matter of natural response...what the new neurons are going to do? Simply, check what is lacking and fill the gap. Hormones (i.e. estrogen) can help (a lot probably). Music can stimulate the nervous system. Our words, physical therapy and diet can do the rest...of course, if that is the will of the patient. Faith and spirituality can help also.


Posted by:  bvongrabe  Posted on: 12/29/2011
FINALLY ! Read this twice if you cannot understand what brain plasticity means. Maybe the physician who judges the coma patient to be a vegetable if he wakes up should be sent back to med school !




Posted by:  nitesh_dhide  Posted on: 08/13/2011
our neighbour after happening some incidence goes in coma . i wann to know how it is happen and the treatment is going on in raheja hospital but when they will come out of it can you tell me ...



Posted by:  ilovemygfsomuch44  Posted on: 07/01/2011
my gf was involved in a terrible car accident and was put on life support for some time..after that they pronounced her to be in a coma.shes been in it for three weeks now and im not sure how much longer she will be in it either. im scared that she might know who i am once she recovers from it.... she is my whole world and i am so scared of losing her,,,, is it possible that she will recover and be back to normal??



Posted by:  kulanchang  Posted on: 06/22/2011
Hi, my mom is still in coma since Nov.27,2011. She is presently confined in a hospital in Hong Kong and our family is in the Philippines. Only my sister who resides in Hong Kong visits her but not so often. Every minute of the day I think of my mom and I miss her terribly. Until now we don't see any sign of response from her. What are the other things can we do to help her recover? I'm planning to visit her next month.


Posted by:  kulanchang  Posted on: 09/03/2011
let me just correct the date, it's Nov.27, 2010...



Posted by:  SJCUTE(Guest)  Posted on: 09/30/2011
What happened to your mom? Why did she experienced Coma? I have an aunt who's in coma now and the doctors said that she has a brain damaged.. we still hope that one day she's going to wake up. anyways, kindly response to my question. Thank you! Godbless!!




Posted by:  rhiane(Guest)  Posted on: 04/03/2011
is there a way to cure a coma? and what are the things to do to cure it?


Posted by:  ilovemygfsomuch44  Posted on: 06/22/2011
hello everyone i am really worried about something that has been bothering me for sometime now... see my gf was involved in a terrible car accident and was put on life support for some time..after that they pronounced her to be in a coma.. im scared that she might know who i am once she recovers from it.... she is my whole world and i am so scared...................




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