Welcome!
I am sorry to hear about your accident and symptoms. I am 7+ weeks post injury and I am at about the same place you are.
They are right, sleep and rest are the best things you can do for yourself. I try to make sure I get at least 8 hours but I feel best after 10 or 11 hours a night.
I also try to control my environment as much as possible: dim the computer screen, turn the volume down on tv, keep windows shut and blinds down, keep the radio off in the car and enjoy the silence ect...
I find I am in many situations at school and work where I have no control over how stimulating or stressful the environment is, so if I control it when I can I feel better in the long run, or at the very least it helps take the edge off.
Just take things a day at a time and learn to laugh at yourself when you put the phone in the fridge or something similar.
Hope this helps.
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Originally Posted by andrewl
Found the forum searching the web and have read a few posts. I feel lucky & blessed that I don't have the pain that so many are suffering. But other problems concern me. I received a concussion 9 weeks ago during the biking portion of a triathlon. I'm much mended from the first two-three weeks but not much progress since then. If I have an active morning the rest of my day is shot...fatigued mentally and lethargic. And if it's been a really active day; say a long drive, late night, or a long run... then I can figure on not being able to accomplish much of anything the next day. Some days I go into a deep sleep after work that my wife can barely get me out of. Other days I'm not sleepy but can't get my head together enough to remember what I did that day.
How long will this last? Anything I can do to regain my stamina? My friends used to joke that I was the Energizer Bunny... not anymore!
If there are other links on this forum, please post in a reply. I've been at work teaching for 8 hours and even figuring out how to log in was difficult! I've rewritten this post a number of times already!
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