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Old 02-01-2011, 07:03 AM
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Originally Posted by Margarite View Post
Sorry to hear about your problem, the dizziness, for me at least and for most people that I have read about, goes away after about 9 months, if not before. For me the dizziness ended about five months after my second concussion (which was two weeks after my first). It came back at 10 months because I went sledding and jostled my head a lot doing that. It took almost five full months to subside, from all the time to just when I exercise, again. Now, during the past two weeks I have been feeling so dizzy that I almost fall over at just really random times. It is strange and sometimes scary. I have not had a single day since March 21, 2009 without a headache. Most of the time it starts as soon as I go outside or if I put on my glasses instead of my contacts or if I eat too much or too little of something. Noise bothers me, not so much the high pitched stuff, but more the amount or loudness of things. I am grumpy all the time because of the pain. The biggest problem is that it isn't constant, but rather ebbs and flows getting worse one day or one week than before. I have seen 6 docs, had 2 CT scans, 1 MRI, and the only info I got was to not take pain killers, not to hit my head again or I could die, and that I would just have to live with it until it went away. Well, I have through all sorts of weird accidents hit my head about 8 times in the year following the first concussion. The first one I fell off a horse and still cannot remember the ten hours surrounding the accident. I was told that I went to the hospital and went to dinner and asked the same questions again and again every five minutes. I even forgot that my uncle had died two years previous. During the three months following the accident I managed to stay in college only because my friends were kind enough to read my homework to me when my headaches were so bad that I couldn't open my eyes. My grades went down to where they had never been in my life, but I passed.
So, anyways,
Because I was getting no answers and because the symptoms were kind of scaring me, I started doing research. I have read for countless hours online and like my doctors there isn't much info out there. The most promising thing that I have found is a treatment where PCS patients slowly increase their physical and mental activities, and when I say slowly I mean very almost excruciatingly slow progress. This is as of yet unproven, but I am trying to work out a plan on my own to do this, because I cannot afford a trainer.
The biggest things are first get a CT to make sure that nothing can be done by doctors for you. Do not use meds they make the headaches worse and hide where you really are on the road to health. Keep living life, but don't hit your head again. Try to spend a little time each day on mental and physical activities.
This is from a non-medical expert, but someone who has spent hours and hours studying this.
Good luck with your journeys!
Margarite
Margarite,

I just joined and saw your post. It took me a year to overcome most of my symptoms. (Fog, dizziness, nausea, headaches, confusion, memory loss, crazy emotional outbursts, overall increased sensitivity to everything) I recently fell again and they've all come back full force. I completely understand where you're coming from. I cannot exercise at all. I walk down a street and I feel nauseous and the fog creeping in. I now understand how insanely slow the recovery process is. I hope you are feeling better at this point. Hang in there.
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