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Old 06-09-2011, 12:17 PM
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Default Follow up visit next week. Suggestions?

So I guess I'm just asking for general suggestions/input.

I'm about 6 weeks post-concussion, PCS here. I got headbutted accidentally by my boyfriend. I've had 2 concussions in the past, but one was 4 years ago, the other was more than 8.

I've been having really bad migraine like headaches, with light auras, nausea, dizziness, loss of appetite, weakness, fatigue, a weird "vibrating" feeling in my brain, eye pain, trouble seeing (but I can strain or squint and see fine), issues running into things, typical PCS symptoms, and a PCS diagnosis from a neurologist.

I've been taking Topamax, 50mg 1 a day, then 2x a day, then 3x a day, increasing every week. I am also taking Buspar (anti-anxiety, non-barbiturate) folic acid, b12, b6, my omegas, and vitamin C, melatonin, and vitamin D. I feel like I am not getting much better, and I am an emotional wreck. Does anyone have any advice? I am trying to limit my activities, but I am a recent college graduate, and I am working "full" time at a part time job trying to make money until I start grad school in late August, but I've had to quit one job, and it seems I can only work about 4 hours at one job until I have to leave, and then I end up having to stay home the next day because I am just incapacitated.

I am truly powerless. I don't know what to do. I feel like I don't have a lot of support. I am 5 hours from my neurologist (weird insurance issues, I am still on my parents'), I have very little support from my parents (despite my mom recently having 2 tbis in a short period of time and having horrible issues, she has decided to take it out on me rather than sympathize), and my boyfriend feels powerless, but has been the only support I have right now. I just want to sit at home and cry all day.

AND I can't eat anything because I'm never hungry!

I am so sorry, I feel so pathetic. I just have nowhere to go right now.
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