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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Dear RRC,
I will clarify what was meant.....
Once you get this under control, (with the time out exercises) you will not notice this "snowy vision as much" and if it returns, then you will know you may have overdone it.
Please know that all you describe are very common side effects of brain injury that many of us have suffered and managed to find ways to relieve them or learn to live with them. Please do not feel alone. You will get a lot better, the brain needs more time. It has not been that long. Believe me in September you will start to see a lot of your symptoms start to get slightly better (the 18 month point). And at 2 years etc.
Please re read my post and take on board the info as it was meant....someone who has been through bad vision and this (above) is how I learnt to deal with it. I still suffer from "snowy vision" a lot. But if I take my own advice and rest properly, proper brain rest, I am a lot better and you will be too.
Take good care of yourself.xx
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I am a 36 yr old female who has played football, as a hobby, for 13 yrs. In July 2012, during a game I was slammed to the floor by two angry guys who hit into me so hard that one of them broke their ribs.
This knocked me back onto hard ground leaving me unconscious. I awoke to chronic head and neck pain, sickness and the inability to see or balance.
The paramedics made me walk to the ambulance, instead of placing me on a spinal board, where I was taken to the ER. I was hospitalised with suspected brain hemorrhage for 1 week, then on complete bed rest for 1 month, in a wheelchair for 2 months.
I have been left with PCS, moderate constant head pain, little short term memory, no memory of the accident, balance and sight problems, depression and exhaustion.
The worst problem is collapsing regularly. This has finally been diagnosed as Hemiplegic Migraines , these cause my brain to regularly shut down when I am tired and I then feel the full effects of a stroke (without the bleed on the brain!!) of which the symptoms last 2-4 days.
I have had 6 CT's, 2 MRI's and am under 3 specialists.
I believe everyday is one more towards improvement. Mainly I believe in the power of acceptance not the weakness of complacency or resignation.
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