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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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Join Date: Aug 2012
Location: England, GB
Posts: 194
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How do you cope with setbacks?
I know I should sit in a calm place for a week to stop these symptoms :
a) severe dizziness
b) nausea
c) blurred vision
d) suicidal thoughts/depression
e) anxiety
f) dropping items
g) tripping over
h) tinitus
but, I have to do certain things and look after a wee one, who has more energy than the average child. The things I enjoy I am too tired to enjoy.
I know everyone here is suffering too in some way, I just am struggling with setback after setback. I had even started running and was considering the possibility of being able to play football again. Then it floods back like a monster pinning me down, reminding me I am not good enough. All the horrid symptoms that no one can see, no family or friend knows what is going on inside this head.
How do you cope with accepting your life has changed forever, knowing that you probably will never get back to the life you used to lead?
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I am a 36 yr old female who has played football, as a hobby, for 13 yrs. In July 2012, during a game I was slammed to the floor by two angry guys who hit into me so hard that one of them broke their ribs.
This knocked me back onto hard ground leaving me unconscious. I awoke to chronic head and neck pain, sickness and the inability to see or balance.
The paramedics made me walk to the ambulance, instead of placing me on a spinal board, where I was taken to the ER. I was hospitalised with suspected brain hemorrhage for 1 week, then on complete bed rest for 1 month, in a wheelchair for 2 months.
I have been left with PCS, moderate constant head pain, little short term memory, no memory of the accident, balance and sight problems, depression and exhaustion.
The worst problem is collapsing regularly. This has finally been diagnosed as Hemiplegic Migraines , these cause my brain to regularly shut down when I am tired and I then feel the full effects of a stroke (without the bleed on the brain!!) of which the symptoms last 2-4 days.
I have had 6 CT's, 2 MRI's and am under 3 specialists.
I believe everyday is one more towards improvement. Mainly I believe in the power of acceptance not the weakness of complacency or resignation.
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