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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 398
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 398
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Hello and welcome
Hi there momwriterstudent,
I am sorry to hear of your struggles, and concussion. PCS is a scary place to be especially if or when you have those confusing days where you feel better and you might think, "ah ha -- it's over," only to find, it is not over.
I had those days too, and I had to leave work last year before the school year was out, and just stay home and brain rest and heal. That was me though.
No 2 injuries are the same and no 2 healings are the same either. If you have to work, you do. I found that when I kept trying to go back to work, it just drained me and made me worse. I know how depressing and scary that felt. I really feel for you in your situation.
Check out the vitamin stickie at the top. It will give you good ideas on how to start healing from the inside. Good nutrition is key to brain health and healing too.
I hope you can find a way to brain rest when you are not working. That will involve having others help you. You will and do need help. I hope you can find it.
Keep asking questions and other people here will weigh in.
The brain does heal. It just takes its own long time and no one really knows how long that time is. But the brain can heal.
Here's wishing you peace.
Sincerely
poetrymom
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[SIZE="1"]What happened. I was in a car accident 2-23-2013, and got a mild concussion from it. I had some time off for brain rest, got somewhat better, but slipped into PCS in March 2013.
Symptoms I had: dizziness, light and sound sensitivity, fatigue, tinitis, occasional headaches and migraines,
Symptoms as of 5--2013: poor sleep, tinitis, some confusion /short term memory blanks, balance. The other symptoms are mostly gone, but flare up if I OVERdo something.
Therapy I had: vestibular
3 months in: I could drive more and for longer distances. I felt like a younger, happier version of myself and I feel so blessed to have this feeling.
9 months in and I am working full time. I do get tired, and some sound and light sensitivity from time to time, but mostly I am over most of my symptoms.
I pray every day and I m praying for your recovery.
Over a year in: I can multi task (limited) and have humor in my life. But when I am tired, I am very tired.
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