Originally Posted by ShellyK

I am so sorry that you have to go through all of this. PCS is just a horrible experience. A lot of the emotional stuff that you are going through, I believe, is because of your injury.

I can relate to so much of it. It is good that you have found this site, because there are so many people here who truly want to help and who have a wealth of experience - again, unfortunately - in this area.


What you do have going for you is your age, because according to what I understand, younger brains can heal better. However, you have to give yourself time to heal. Six weeks is really early in the healing process. If you want to heal, you need to stay home and rest. Working is causing symptoms. I am not a doctor, but from my own experience as well as from what I have learned from the many wise people on this forum, I really feel that if you truly



want to heal, the first thing you have to do is to stop working and rest.


You said that you are taking Topomax. Is that to prevent the migraines? If that medicine is not working, there are others to try.

Also, you mentioned several B vitamins that you are taking. If you do take separate B vitamins, you do need to take a B complex to make sure that you keep the B's balanced. That's what I've been told.

Because I have trouble with the preventative medications for migraines, I have been taking vitamin B-2. There have been studies done about it helping to prevent migraines. If you Google migraines and vitaminB-2, you can read about it.

I don't use as much B-2 as they used in the study. I use 25 mg of Solgar's B-2, and I even cut that in half. I still get headaches every day, but they are milder.

There are 2 books that I would highly recommend to you that were written by doctors who had PCS, and they explain it really well. They have many ideas about dealing with it. One book is Brainlash by Gail Denton, PhD, and the other is Coping with Mild Traumatic Brain Injury by Diane Roberts Stoler, Ed.D., and Barbara Albers Hill.

I wish you all the best, and I hope that you will be able to take the time to allow yourself to heal. ShellyK