Dude..two weeks. You are lucky that you are here early. Now heed this advice like your life depended on it! Cause it does.

1) You can heal this. Take a deep breath and believe it completely.

2) Shut off all stimulation to the brain that involves, screens, radios, or anything that overwhelms you. Movies, cell phones, books, throw them away. Pretend they don't exist. I mean it! For the first month or even two, I would go on a complete cognitive rest.

3) no excercise. A short walk around the block is okay. Find a family member that can be around to take care of you. Take all the time off work that you need. Quit your job if you have to! This injury is serious, it has the capacity to destroy your life if you let it.

4) Up that diet, eat steaks, lots and lots of greens, avocados, coconut oil,lots of water.

5) find an activity that promotes blood flow to the Brain. People often use adult coloring books, if you can knit, that is good too. Adult coloring books and easy jigsaw puzzles.

6) figure out a way to shut off the depression and anxiety. It is the single most important thing to do. It will polute your brain with chemicals that make it impossible to heal and you won't be able to heal. Anxiety and depression are the two deadliest things with this injury. So...please cut it out anyway you can. Meditation, breathing excercises, and restorative yoga all help. Yoga nidra works wonders.

You follow this advice, early on you have a very good chance at recovery. You could heal in two months three months, a year or. You don't follow the advice and you never heal, and spend the rest of your life with a headache, which is what happens to a lot of people on this form. You got the info you need, now get off the internet and try to turn yourself off. Please heed this advice!

I think this joe rogan podcast by Jane Mcgonigal is he best advice in healing this injury. This injury requires strict discipline and a resilient heart to get better from, both things that I lacked and it's almost two years later and my ears ring, my head hurts, I am a manic depressive, with insomnia and suicidal ideation. Before this injury, I think I was the happiest person on Earth.

I used to be an international teacher/rock climber and now I sit in a a room in my moms house and think about if I can go on with the life that has been bestowed upon me. I didn't follow the advice, I ended up loosing my mind reading people's stories, anxiety drove depression. I have tried everything out there and the more I read the more I realize that time and discipline, plus a positive attitude are the only things that can cure this. This injury is serious, I believe as serious as Cancer, more serious than a heart attack. It can effect your whole life for the negative or you can suck it up for this one year, six months or 3 months and try to become your human self again.

Also people on here often say there is no timeline to recovery, I will go ahead and say that there is one. You have two years to try to get better. After that it is a slow grind forward. Two years, a lot of people get back to normal in 6 months, other take 3 months. But take this more seriously than anything you have ever taken, cause life with this injury is pretty unbearable.

Here is the YouTube link. I don't anyone to suffer from this the way I have been suffering. So, please heed the advice, don't take it lightly and be resilient. Also, don't waste your money on quack doctors, there really is nothing out there, I have tried hyperbaric, chiropractic neurology, neurofeedback, gyrostim, and I think all of it is garbage science with no proof. Instead spend your money on a good diet and get some adult coloring books and color up a storm, a vitamin regimen can't hurt either, fish oil, cocnut oil, b12, d3. Getting a pt to work on your neck can be helpful if you have a neck injury. Necks are as hard to heal as brains. Listen to your body. Good luck...I hope you heal.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Qh20XWwxMY. This lady healed herself by figuring out how to cut out her depression and anxiety, it's a super interesting to listen. Cut out everything after you listen to this talk.