Perocker56

9 months into my injury all I have seen so far is a general practitioner whom is unwilling to give any diagnosis until I have seen a specialist. Given the current waiting list it may not be until next year! In the meantime I am keeping the high level records and a diary for a number of reason

I have something (albeit subjective) for the specialists to look at and draw some conclusions from my current levels to ones recorded shortly after injury. Additionally, from experience doctors like to see some progression over time.

The other point is that these are useful for myself and family. I used to be highly organsied, methodical and scientific this gives me something to relate back to in my past existence. It does help as well if I asks my family for input in to some of the measures e.g. "what has my mood been like recently?" I can then compare their answers to what I thought i was like.

When the eventual claim for compensation does come to fruition it does provide some level of documentation.

In terms of "The fact that you can write this shows your positive progress" is not so true in my case. Since my injury I have been able to construct posts like this but typing this response and getting the English understandable has taken me nearly an hour.- much the same as in the early stages. I haven't improved at all - previously this would have taken me between 5-10 mins