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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
ll44,
Welcome to NeuroTalk.
Wow, you sensitivity to head movement sounds just like mine. Do you ever get a strange taste in your mouth when you move your head too fast? I get a taste of chewing aluminum foil. I learned long ago how to towel my hair. It was a miserable experience. I have the same problem with bumpy roads. I have found a partial solution. When the road is rough, lean forward so your back does not touch the back of the seat. If your shoulders are hunched forward, it helps absorb the shock.
Your fog and other symptoms are classic Post Concussion Syndrome. You may have reached the critical mass of cumulative concussions and sub-concussive impacts to cause Multiple Impact Syndrome. MIP is a condition where some of the symptoms may last a long time. At my age and after 14 impacts, my symptoms have remained constant for 12 years.
Younger people have a better chance of recovery. I had to start making changes to my life in my mid 20's. I had to reduce stress and start a nutrition regimen. I recovered many normal conditions but not all.
The best way to help your brain recover is with quiet rest. That means cognitive rest in a low stress and low stimulation environment. Minimal noise/sound/voices and minimal visual stimulation/lights/moving objects, etc.
Any of the above stressors or cognitive effort can bring on fog, nausea, head aches, etc. It helps to learn how to keep stress and cognitive loads low so as to not trigger symptoms.
It takes work to track the triggers but it is worth it.
Feel free to ask questions and tell us more about your struggles.
My best to you.
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Thanks for the response. It's good to know that this fogginess thing is a real thing and not just in my head. *Cough cough. It's pretty damn hard to describe this sensation and even the doctor doesn't quite get it.
So here's a question as my world starts to spin a bit just from looking at this computer screen. When I jar my head just a bit to get back in foggy spinny mode, am I reinjuring my brain? I swear it feels like I've just received another concussion and another and another when this happens, pretty much daily right now. Tell me that I'm not so sensitive that these are new concussions but rather just symptoms.
My next task is to figure out if making a big deal about getting off work would be worth it. I'd hate to ask for a week or two off if that's going to do little but make me even more of a hermit and get the work folks all mad at me. Then again, if taking time off could get me past this foggy baseline and back to the improved state where my biggest worry is migraines, I'd be thrilled.
But yeah, that hair drying, what a trip! That's the one thing I could pretty much count on in this two years, even when I thought I was better. If I slipped up and was just a little too rough with my head, it was lala land for me.