WoK,

Your post stunned me. Rolling your mom's car is scary. Since you do not remember what happened, may I suggest a few scenarios. You may have had an absence seizure. You may have fallen asleep. You may have lost track of the road due to your PCS symptoms. Or, you may have some amnesia of just before and after the roll-over due to hitting your head. Either way, you need to not be driving.

Do not try to push through your symptoms. You brain is symptomatic for a reason. It is telling you to slow down and give it a rest. Coma is the same thing. It is your brain saying, I am going to take a deep rest until I feel a bit better.

You need to slow down and back off so that you have months of symptom free time. It is these symptoms free months where your brain gets to heal and catch up. Every relapse (decompensation) takes you back a few weeks or months in your recovery.

Some sports medicine specialists are starting to realize that athletes need to be symptom free for six weeks or more before returning to play. The Buffalo graduated exercise program is designed to slowly increase effort without causing a return of symptoms. If you look at the time schedule of the Buffalo protocol, it takes months of this graduated exercise before returning to play.

Thing of concussion this way. Persons with PCS don't have issues. they have a renewing annual subscription. They need to be watchful for years after.

It is not something you can feel guilty about. You have no control over your symptoms. You need to memorize this line for when you need to back away from an activity. "It is going to take quite some time for my brain to recover from my concussion. If I over do it, it will take even longer."

When you can say this with authority as if you believe it, others will believe you. They will likely be concerned for you rather than question or pity you.

Now, go convince your mother and friends and yourself that your brain needs more time to heal.

My best to you.