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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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Hi Chris,
Excessive thinking, inflammation, high blood pressure, high bp are (and I will adamantly say) the results of your setback not the cause.
A very stressful event I would place as your cause which resulted in the very bad sleep.
Yes very bad sleep due to stress will cause you to have a setback, but it won't be a complete setback. It is the way you perceive what you are going through now that matters. You are not back at the start.
Please know that your sleep during recovery is vital and I am sure you know that which is probably worrying you. Concentrate on getting the sleep pattern back. Go to bed at the same time every night and use what suits you(homeopathy etc) to help you sleep. (no mobile phones, tv, music) Do not sit up worrying that you cannot sleep. Even lying in your bed is rest. Any rest is better than none.
Blood pressure and an elevated heart rate will return to normal with rest. As for a lot of quick head movements, they will cause you to have a few days of recurring symptoms that should settle down.
Please can you give any more detail as to the very stressful event? Because these are clearly responsible for your heart issues.......
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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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