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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
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Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: GulfCoastSouth .... April 2014 rudely displanted to the cold wet windy gloomy NW coast.
Posts: 675
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Dear Folks in the Old World ...
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Originally Posted by sospan
During the time I have been on the forum, it has been becoming more and more apparent that the treatment options seem to be wider in the US & Canada than here in the UK.
Theta's reply:
Perhaps that may be the case. I don't know.
I cannot in my own experience (in'DownHere'USA) attest to any more progressive or more advanced or more genuinely helpful American medical care. Here there is zero knowledge of adjunctive, supportive therapies, nutritional supplements, nutrition, exercise & return-to-work protocols, or even a remotely 'decent' working-knowledge of closed-head injury,concussion, pcs amongst all whom I have seen over these 4 years now.
Out West where I lived most of my life, I do know that it is indeed very much as you say. Yes. True. Very true.
This isn't a gripe but over here we seem to be told take paracetamol and virtually go sit in a darkened room until your better. Whilst over there you guys seem to be offered a lot of mainstream medication and offers to go trials for potential new ones.
Apart from the usual doctorly advice - don't smoke, drink, avoid recreational drugs, loose weight etc. We don't get any complimentary advice - take vitamins, drink plenty fluid avoid certain foods which seems to be completely different to what is available in the US / Canada.
Any views ?
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Thanks for this site and the posters whom contribute their time and knowledge as us folks in the old world would be in the dark  |
Only after 'toughing it out' largely on my own for 3+ yrs, I did seek out a new-to-me physician. I did patiently play the 'good patient', yet each & every month for 5 monthly visits, I had to make my point very clear each time: "Cognitive dysfunction, cognitive executive dysfunction, cognitive deficits. Of course I'm depressed. Who wouldn't be?? That's not the central issue here."
It's tough. Finally, in month 5 visit, I was offered low-dose adderall. (Wasn't tolerable to me.) In month 6, I was offered Aricept (donzepil) --- and that combined with my friend's suggestion for intensive insight meditation training, well --- I've certainly begun to see some light and making some 'headway' through my own muck, as it were!
We're all here figuring this all out together!
Much appreciation,
Theta 
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50s Babyboomer; 2008 high-impact rear-ended/totalled-MVC, closed-head injury->pcs ... "Still dealing with it."
1993, Fell on black ice; first closed-head injury; life-altering. // 2014 Now dealing with Peripheral Neuropathy, tremors, shakiness, vestibular disorder, akithesia, anhedonia, yada yada, likely thanks to rx meds // 2014: uprooted to the cold wet gray NW coast, trying to find a way back home ... where it's blue sky and warm!
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Each and every day I am better and better. I affirm and give thanks that it is so. // 2014-This was still true for me last year, I truly felt this a year ago. Unfortunately it holds no meaning for me now. Odd, it was the Theta mantra for years. Change change change.
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