Very odd question...

OOk this is a really odd question for you guys...

Did anyone suffer from any head injuries when they were younger?

My mother swears that my weight gain is a cause of a traumatic head injury I had right before I went through puberty. I wa**** in the head with a rock and it came a 1/4 of a inch from my brain which would've killed me. She said I totally changed after that. I was the tiniest little itty bitty thing all stick and bones and long legs and arms when I was young. Afterwards I suffered well...weight gain and then terrible migraines that are hemiplegic migranes. anywhoo... just asking out of curiosity. I dont know if i share my moms opinion though. Actually I dont really becasue my mom is big and so is that side of my family and i think its more genetic. but i guess there is a chance that the head injury was a cause as well... anywhoo... i was still curious if anyone else suffered from a head injury.  

no--and i doubt seriously taht there is a connection unless your mom maybe fed you to make you feel better??sorry...i come form an obese family....

I got my share of knocks to the head and then some.  I was severly physically abused and even now when I get an x-ray, they find old breaks that I don't remember.  Most of the time, these things went untreated medically.  My mom says that if it the abuse had happened in this day and age, I would have been removed and placed in a foster home.  Probably true, but who knows.  Anyway, in addition to the beatings, I also had my share of head blows that come from just being a kid.  Falling out of trees and the usual rough and tumble.  I started gaining weight after I ran away from home at 13.  Before that, I was a skinny kid and lots of the beatings came from my refusal to eat.  While I was on the run, I managed to gain weight.  Dang, I was resourceful.  How many kids are homeless and manage to get chunky? 

I'm not sure that this theory about head injuries holds a lot of water.  It might be true in one or two cases, but I think genetics a stronger part.  My mother and both grandmothers were very heavy.  I have one obese sister and the other sister, my father and my brother are thin.  I guess I probably look most like the thinner side now, but I feel like the heavier side.  I've still got some weight to lose, but I feel "fake thin."

I think we'll find a bazillion different stories. I was premature, were you? I weighed under 6 lbs. when I was born, almost died. I was the tiniest baby and child up until 3rd grade, then just plain ballooned - we moved from Detroit to a suburb. Hellacious childhood. Food was my friend, my comfort. That's all there is to it. Three head injuries in my lifetime though. One in 7th grade - I was thrown from a wild horse, landed in a haystack, which probably saved my life. Layed there unconscious for I don't know how long. Woke up on my own. Never told my parents about it. But i was already fat by that time. So no sense talking about the other two head injuries, both happened later, one in high school, one in college. I was unconscious and rushed to the hospital for the high school incident. Stayed awake for the college incident. Boy, now I know why I'm nuts though! I do not believe there is a connection at all between head injuries and obesity. Except what Margo said. I absolutely believe there is genetic predisposition to obesity - and a huge emotional factor to healing hurts - emotional eating - with food, or any number of other numbing substances. That chemical dance we do in the brain to feel better. The problem is it doesn't work. It doesn't help. M.

i don't know if i was actually a "preemie" my mom was 14 when i was born and she had been hospitalized for a long time dehydrated....i was born in a "home for unwed mothers"...i weighed 5"4oz tho so she was able to have me with her for almost a week before i was taken to be placed......

there is documented obesity in my family dating back to pre 1954-diabetes kidney issues eyesight problems...i used thsi info on my appeal for my wls-which ended up not being needed due to my sleep apnea!!! all that work for nothing !!!!!!!!!! i digress......

as i grew up,my adopted family had some wealth and taught ne to enjoy good foods...tho i preferred twinkies in high school, once they were invented!!!! sara lee was a fave of mine and i am an awesome pastry chef!!!!!!!!! quantity /portion control has always been a problem for me.....always.....even post wls...... and when i was in high school we often had empty cupboards-no reason--so sometimes i think i "store up" for a long winter!! i never went hungry tho after i left hoem i had some meager meals; yet i often acted like it was gonna be my last meal...that has to be a head issue......and not a banged on the head one.....

sorry- guess i am no help!!!

Nah didn't get fed because of my injury. My mom wasn't big on cooking really. LOL... anywhoo... I think its more genetic anyways. Although my mom's sister is very thin. My father is very tall and thin and mostly all of my cousins follow that suit... tall and thin (on my dad's side). My moms side shorter and bigger. I am built like my mom but my facial features are like my dad. What a mix. lol... i always wished my dad's genes were stronger. Diabetes runs on my moms side of the family and my mother is obese along with her brothers and her sister was obese as well. aside from the two older sisters that weren't. But they were more dicisplined I think. I was the skinniest little thing. I did start to gain after I had the head injury, but I just think that was coincidence. yet who truly knows. I do know one thing, I have been AWFUL this weekend. Just terrible. BUT i think i'm "getting in what I can" before starting this liquid/soft food diet. Which is a bad thing to do. Well.. i guess I wasn't really thinking that... just supposing thats what it is.  Please pray for me that I can have the strength to get my jump start on getting back to the correct way of eating for wls people.  (hugs!)