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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
newbie,
Trying to look back is counter productive. This has been hashed over by others. Your short rest was good. Your arguing at work was likely no worse than spending a week or two tied up in anxiety at home. The temporary increase in headache likely slowed you down a bit.
It would have been better for you to avoid those situations that caused an increase in your headaches but you did the best you knew based on the doctors' advice. Taking the rest of the week off is good, especially if you keep a low stress profile. After that, you should still moderate your days to minimize stress. As I mentioned, getting your employer and co-workers to help you will be good.
There is one piece of research that suggest a week or two of minimizing stress is best but there is no consensus on what the best rest is beyond what I have already stated.
Did you watch the "You Look Great" You Tube series and read the Vitamins sticky ?
If you avoid stressful situations and get good rest each night, you have great chances at a good recovery. 85% recover within the first 6 weeks without any special treatments or efforts.
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Understandable
I would imagine most people going through this would be frustrated at their own decisions initially, so I'm not surprised that is a common reaction. It would actually I'd imagine be quite difficult to necessarily link the headaches from the 'concussion' to other symptoms anyway, as headaches are a fairly common stress activated response and concussion is so poorly understood this is all very new to me. I actually seem to remember hearing the word 'concussed' and attributing no serious meaning to it.
I think the headaches generally are starting to go away today actually, or at least reduce in severity. I had a strange episode were I was trying to help someone on a computer related issue and trying to think about it made me feel very dizzy. Now I understand what people are speaking about when they refer to 'over exerting' themselves and what it can mean.
I'll do my best to just relax until Monday, see what happens then.