Hi-

New to the site, and am searching for possible vitamins, or meds for my 16 year old daughter.

She was first injured over a year ago with first concussion at school during colorguard. Suffered the entire year with headaches, nausea, and "visions"... trouble with patterns vibrating, walls "shaking", dots, colors bleeding onto other colors, text dripping, etc. She was unable to read until 3-4 months later. She was out of school from November - April due to these (and more) symptoms. She finally was able to completely rest her brain over the summer with no tutoring, etc. She was still having what the neurologist calls "positive visual phenomenon", and my daughter called TV static pretty much non-stop. BUT-- she was able to function with it. She is a high honor roll student and pushes herself academically. She dropped everything that wasn't necessary and was lucky to be in accelerated classes so she had already completed that years work.

Almost one year to the date of the last accident, my daughter accidentally walked into a spiral staircase, and has been pretty much put back to square one. She tries every day to attend school, but the never ending headaches, nausea and "visions" make her unable to do much besides watch tv, talk on the phone, most things but not brain taxing things. When she tried to do work, the headaches get worse of course. After last year we are familiar with how it works...

She takes Ambien for sleep only during the week when she has to sleep and try to wake for school. She also takes Fioricet for pain, but the headaches normally don't completely go away. She has tried other meds that worsen the "visions" so we stopped them.

Does anyone use a vitamin like Phosphatidylserine for brain health? I am willing to try anything now that we are going into her 2nd consecutive year with this. She has tried other medications, we go to the Concussion clinic at University Hospital in Syracuse, NY. She has seen neuro docs as well as eye docs. Basically time is what everyone says... it's easy to say- but when the pressure of doing school work, is always present, it's pretty hard to.

My daughter missed her whole sophomore year, and was sooo looking forward to her junior year of high school. She loves school and learning-- wants to do something in the Genetics field and is worried about being out another whole year-- and what that will do when colleges look?

Any meds or vitamins, someone mentioned acupuncture?

Thanks so much!!! Stressed mom beyond...