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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
thorx89,
Welcome to NeuroTalk. You are still very early in your recovery. You need to get quiet rest and be patient. It sounds like your father is not helping your recovery. You impatience to get back to your life is also counter to recovery.
What kind of meds are you considering ordering? Brand names or such will be able to be posted. There are no magic pills to recover.
Nutrition is also not a quick fix. It takes weeks to months of good brain nutrition to see long term improvements. You need to be consistent with nutrition. One bad day of polluting your system can undo days of good nutrition.
So, find a way to get away from stress.
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Thanks for the reply, Mark.
The link that got edited out was to this one article where this one doctor recommends
- 1200 milligrams of GPC daily (glycerophosphcholine)
- 200 milligrams of PS daily (phosphatidylcholine serine)
- 500 milligrams of ALCAR daily (acetyl-L-carnitine)
- 500 milligrams of Longvida© (curcumin in an extra digestible form)
as food supplements for aiding in concussion recovery. (And I have found some independent clinical studies that support that.) This stuff is impossible to get over here in the Czech Republic, barring ALCAR, which is available as a fitness supplement. I considered ordering the rest from abroad around 2 weeks ago, but didn't because I thought I would be OK by now (by now is when the supplements would arrive if I had placed the order 2 weeks ago).
Two weeks ago, after having spent a week on trying to get back up (before then I spent most of my first 2 weeks sleeping most of the time), I was sick of being sick and I tried to force myself back right into the middle of some hardcore coding. That made my headache much worse for the next two days, which I spent mostly in bed again. Then I decided to try and do some more for my recovery and substitute for some of the items on the above list. I came across lecithin, which as a choline precursor should also have some brain-helping properties and I added that, along with gingko, to my shelf of supplements, which had had fish oil and multivitamins+Mg,Ca, Zn, Fe from week 1. I'd also been trying to eat a high-protein diet and pour ground tumeric on my meals ever since week 1.
I've tried to do some research on this thing, and I've come to terms with the fact that there ain't no concussion pill (as I said--I wasn't very happy with the rest-and-wait approach pushed to me by doctors). I just want to be doing to the best to aid my recovery.
Do you have any experience with the above food supplements? Are they worth buying?