my husband 41 has fahrs he recently had a brain injury from a chemical spill at work his neurologists believes the fahrs has made his brain vessels leaky so when he breathed in the chemical it went to his brain he cant work or drive and very difficult speech writing and problem solving so he has this accute problem but he also has the chronic one, he is going to sppech and ot therapies he grad from pt he is more balanced and steady now kellyjoe
I too have developed basal ganglia classifications following a TBI - has to more than coincidence.
i find that very hard to understand. if one day i am fine, walking, running, talking never being hurt in my life. then a car hits me going 20 mph and i fly 15 to 20 feet and this begins to happen.
maybe i am not understanding this correctly. but i find it hard to fathom / except that it's just a coincidence and if the car hadn't hit me this would have happened anyway.
if no one in my family has this genetic disorder... also since it has not been discussed with my great tbi doctors i am not one to say anything.
but one thing i can say is it took time to appear inch by inch. till seven months later it became pretty apparant and i almost got doctors attentions.
so my question is? the accident didn't cause the calcification but could it have done something to- to suddenly bring on walking issues and kind of a missahpe of the physical upper body
thank you
Hi,
Thanks for writing in.
Your symptoms of movement problems are very likely to be related to calcification the basal ganglia. The idiopathic basal ganglia calcification presents in adult life as clumsiness, fatigability, unsteady gait, and slurred speech, muscle cramping and even seizures. The treatment is mainly focused around management of symptoms.
It is a genetic disorder and no screening method is available till date to diagnose this condition in prenatal period.