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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
Doozer,
Welcome to NeuroTalk. Sorry to hear of your struggles. Apparently, you have not read much on NT this past year. The multi-vitamin is just better than nothing. They are designed to prevent malnutrition, not to improve health. You should read the Vitamins sticky at the top. B-12, a B-50 Complex, D-3, Mag citrate, and a few others should be added to the multi and fish oil.
You good days are healing days. They are not days for pushing your limits so that you return to bad days. You need to moderate your activity levels on these good days so they continue.
You mentioned an upper neck issue. What are you doing to take care of your neck ?
What are you doing to help with your recovery ?
The Doctors advice was OK. 85% recover spontaneously. But, you should have been resting for the first few days or even a week. Live and learn...We all do it.
You attention to detail in your post suggests you are prone to being intense and detail oriented. This personality style is difficult with PCS. There is a need to moderate thought patterns to just let life happen rather than try to expect life to happen in a certain way. I understand the needs of a family. Been there, done that. But, life can be lived at a simpler pace.
In you self defense training, did you work with head gear and have some contact training ?
Are you continuing to train ?
What is a normal day's activities like ?
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Hi Mark, thank you for taking the time to reply, I appreciate it.
I will definitely work on a vitamin regimen, I still struggle with screens for prolonged periods, so I have only really been able to read bits and pieces on here, usually focused on other people's recovery in the hope I may find some hope. Probably 9 months of the year I've had this I've been only able to read the forum for a few minutes at a time.
So the days that I feel ok, means that my brain is healing? I find that very encouraging. I will make sure that I reel in activity on these days to help myself in that case. I do tend to try and do things I like doing, which is probably slowing me down in the long run.
I tend to still get issues with my neck, which come and go. It's not pain, more discomfort, and very annoying. I'm not really too sure what I can do to take care of my neck other than just gently put it though some motion to try and ease the spasms. You'd think that over a year of seeing Doctors and a specialist, they would have given me more advice!
In terms of helping my recovery, I am eating relatively healthily (fruit and vegetables every day) I have cut out pretty much all processed foods. I have cut out foods containing a lot of processed sugar. I generally only drink water. I don't drink, I don't smoke and don't take drugs (and never have). I go for walks on a daily basis and I try to keep in contact with friends and family, which helps keep my spirits up. I will start looking into a supplement regimen also, this includes trying Lions mane, which I've heard good things about.
You are right, I am a very detailed person. I like neatness, I have a large range of imagination, I'm fairly switched on and am a heavy brain user, I like to play chess and board games, research, watch general knowledge on you tube and think up ideas, theories and stories. I get bored easily and can suffer from stress when the kids are playing up. Not being able to do much in the winter (summer is better) ensures that I tend to think on my condition more. So when I was 100% winter or summer made little difference, I was always busy. Now much of the time I feel like a caged animal! This probably doesn't help, but what's the alternative?
We didn't work with head gear in sparring as it tends to make people hit harder, but we did spar with very padded boxing gloves, light contact only. So, in truth, I've probably taken a few sub concussive blows in my time. I also fractured my skull when I was an infant, but the extent that affected my brain isn't known. I do know that my c1 upper cervical is not on straight, however, the neurologist didn't seem concerned at all about this, and to tell you the truth, I think it was always like this.
No. I have never gone back to training and I never will. My brain is much more important than martial arts, in fact, if I'd have known what I know now, I'd have not taken it up in the first place.
Day to day living, I'm functional. I can do anything except the things I like doing. Which is kind of like water torture.