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Join Date: Dec 2012
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Join Date: Dec 2012
Posts: 205
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Ah, thanks to all of you and your kind words. They soothe this soul.
I teach East Asian history, mostly modern Japan. Although that all seems like a lifetime ago. Last year I got proofs back for a book I was editing and I cried because not only could I not read it (double vision-), I could not understand it.
I can't even fathom teaching - the course syllabus seems foreign - but it's the energy levels and the fatigue and the pace of it all. Every day I can sustain maybe one hour of activity, before I wilt and my brain shuts down.
I know that once I have the energy and then the vision improves then perhaps I can begin to put the pieces back. But I'm not there. Maybe I won't be there for a long while. I don't know.
I know life is always changing, and we are adapting. WE are in transition. Hugs to you all-
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The event: Rear ended on freeway with son when I was at a stop in stop and go traffic July 2012. Lost consciousness.
Post-event: Diagnosed with post-concussion syndrome, ptsd, whiplash, peripheral and central vestibular dysfunction and convergence insufficiency. MRI/CT scans fine.
Symptoms: daily headaches, dizziness/vertigo, nausea, cognitive fog, light/noise sensitivities, anxiety/irritability, fatigued, convergence insufficiency, tinnitus and numbness in arms/legs.
Therapies: Now topamax 50mg daily; Propanolol and Tramadol when migraine. Off nortryptiline and trazodone. Accupuncture. Vitamin regime. Prism glasses/vision therapy. Vestibular therapy 3month. Gluten free diet. Dairy free diet. On sick leave from teaching until Sept. 2014.
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