![]() ![]() We're so thrilled that you've joined us again. So eventually, he tried something very different.ĭANIEL AMEN: Welcome, everybody. But none of that was conclusive, and he often felt brushed off or misdiagnosed. He was told he may be bipolar or have a brain tumor or a personality disorder or CTE - chronic traumatic encephalopathy - an Alzheimer's-like condition. He saw many doctors, tried multiple prescription drugs, went to several treatment centers. Abraham left his job and embarked on a lengthy medical odyssey to try to figure out what was wrong with him. ![]() I went out, got on my phone and looked it up because I couldn't remember what to do. And so I made up some excuse, told the nurses I think I had to go to the bathroom. I couldn't remember what to do to finish it the last couple steps. But then this happened in an operating room.ĪBRAHAM: I was doing a hysterectomy. He wondered if it was the pressure of having a newborn at home or the strain of seeing dozens of patients a day. He was quick to get angry, started avoiding people. PFEIFFER: His happy personality was changing, too. Abraham, are you OK? Oh, yeah, yeah, I'm fine. PFEIFFER: He started having to look up basic information on birth control and antibiotics, drugs he prescribed routinely and used to know by heart, and had blank out during surgical consultations.ĪBRAHAM: And that happened a couple times, to the point where patients were like, you know, Dr. I felt like my hand-eye coordination was off, and I would get flustered because I didn't know what was wrong. T J ABRAHAM: Surgeries were taking me longer. He was an OB-GYN for the University of Pittsburgh Medical Center, but he began to feel he was losing his mental sharpness, forgetting little things, slowing down. SACHA PFEIFFER, BYLINE: Until about three years ago, T.J. NPR's Sacha Pfeiffer reports on one man's unorthodox health care journey. CTE can only be diagnosed through an autopsy, so they can't find out for sure, and many are turning to dubious treatments. But there's also a quiet population of everyday people who are afraid they have the disease. The degenerative brain condition known as CTE is mostly seen in professional athletes who play contact sports. ![]()
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