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Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Carmel, IN
Posts: 467
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Member
Join Date: Mar 2014
Location: Carmel, IN
Posts: 467
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Originally Posted by Hockey
I think there are stages in TBI recovery. I tried the "ignore it and push through" phase. What a disaster.
You sound like me: the type of person who is proactive about finding SOLUTIONS. Sadly, TBI isn't that kind of problem.
TBI is hard on us chronic overachievers. Seven (gulp) years in, and I'm still wrestling to accept that I don't have to be "super cripple." (I also have a spinal cord injury.)
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7 years... WOW!
It just seems like there should be some solution... I know theres not, but I just keep looking!
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The Start: MVA, t-boned, on 1-12-14 (my sons 5th birthday) and did not think anything of it.. my back hurt on site but everything else seemed ok. Lost about 10-12 hours from about 3 hours after the accident to the next day...Experienced terrible brain fog for over a month, plus intense headaches, nausea, dizziness, cognitive difficulties, disorientation, no short term memory, depression and just an overall hangover feeling daily.
Current Situation: I'm about 7 months in and my local neurologist has waived her white flag and therefore I am headed to Dallas to be seen (I have family there). The headaches are still daily. I have nausea, dizziness as well.
Drugs I have been on- Vicodin (off), Naproxen (off), proanolol (off), topamax (off), cataflam (off), Midrin (off), Flexeril (off) and now Namenda XR (off), Nortrptylin (off), Verapamil (off)
Therapy- Osteopath, Vestibular and balance therapy, fuzion/soft tissue massage, acupuncture
Drs- ER (no help), GP, Chiropractor, Neurologist and Osteopath
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