Dear Poster,
That is an awesome idea, if I had any sort of scientific mind, I would want to do the same thing. The most promising thing that I have read anywhere is a study being done by a certain college which I can't remember.
Anyways, the study is trying to prove that PCS patients can improve if they are put on a very slow progression increasing their exercise from nothing to normal life again. It is a very slow progression and it must be supervised so that the patient does not progress too slowly and so that they continue despite headaches and such.
I am trying this in my own way, and I do feel better whenever I have a certain amount of excercise in my life, but if it is too "bouncy" then I just get worse, walking for 2 hours a day was my routine during the school year and then I slowly tried doing other things, some of those things set me back, but others gave me new opportunities. I have found that only sleep and quiet help my headaches in the long run, but sleep and college don't go together, so instead I just go really hard for a while then get sick and spend three days in bed then do it all over again. I guess I will just have to keep it up for another six years because I am planning on earning two Bachelors degrees, one in Liberal Arts and the second in Nursing.
I would also warn that I have read and heard many times that pain killers, in the long run, actually make the headaches worse and you just have to keep taking more and more as time goes on.
The thing I found most comforting was having a couple close friends who I told exactly how I was feeling at all times and were kind enough to take my problems into consideration. Knowing that not everyone thinks I am crazy and not everyone thinks I am milking it, is very nice. But I warn that it is very waring on the friends and family. In many ways, I think it is better to pretend that I am all better and just more reclusive than to have them worrying that something is really wrong and that the docs are just incompetent.
Well, I need to sleep.
TTFN
Margarite

PS: I know Mark disagrees about the pain killers, but I have personal experience and I have read and heard of many, many other cases of this.