Thread: Frustrated with minor accidents setting back recovery
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Old 08-17-2014, 05:00 PM
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My setbacks have mostly come from too much activity vs. knocking my head into something (knock on wood). But they have gotten less severe and somewhat shorter lived over time.

I usually cut back pretty far on activity, except for crying on the couch, crying on the phone to friends, crying on friends shoulders

Not sure that's the right answer, but i do think there's something to be said for listening to your body and resting. I found this blog a while back and remember her words when i have a set back.
http://allconcussion.com/2013/04/con...with-setbacks/

Helps a little, but I posted some pretty sad words during a relatively minor setback a couple weeks ago. Reason just doesn't reach me when i'm in such a funk. I just tried to tell myself all i really had to do that day was breathe, and that the world wants me around.
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April 11, 2014 Flipped in class 2 white water while kayaking, hit my forehead (was wearing a helmet). Lots of symptoms to begin with. Those remaining are fatigue, brain freezes/overstimulation, headaches, sensitivity to light and sound. Insomnia is getting better but still an issue, and appetite is ba-ack! Depression and anxiety are largely under control thanks to Lexapro, exercise, and a very distant light at the end of the tunnel.

Drugs: Lexapro, occasional 2-5mgs ambien. Off amatryptaline. Taking about 453 supplements.

Just started vision therapy, waiting on some blue-tinted prism glasses.

"You will encounter many defeats, but you must not be defeated. In fact, it may be necessary to encounter the defeats, so you can know who you are, what you can rise from, how you can still come out of it." Maya Angelou
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