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What are the common symptoms of a brain injury?

On Behalf of | Mar 29, 2022 | Personal Injury |

When you experience a significant jolt or blow to your head, you could sustain a traumatic brain injury. These injuries require immediate medical attention and often occur during car accidents or workplace accidents.

Brain injuries are also common, and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention states that in 2019, 222,135 people went to the hospital for a TBI. The symptoms of a brain injury can vary, and they often fall under the category of mental, physical or sensory symptoms.

Mental and behavioral symptoms

If you incur a brain injury in an accident, you may have a hard time remembering things and concentrating. You may also start to feel depressed or anxious, experience trouble sleeping and have drastic mood swings as you go about your day.

Physical symptoms

Some of the most common physical symptoms of a brain injury can include fatigue and drowsiness, difficulty speaking and a persistent headache. After the accident, you may also experience ongoing vomiting or nausea.

Sensory symptoms

With a brain injury, you may become more sensitive to bright lights and loud sounds in the days following the accident. You may also experience a continual ringing in your ears, blurred vision and changes to your ability to taste and smell things.

Just like the symptoms of a TBI are highly variable depending on the person, so is the recovery timeline. Although you may experience some immediate symptoms following the accident that go away quickly, other symptoms can manifest themselves days or weeks following the initial trauma.

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