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Originally Posted by Mark in Idaho
Mouse1,
Welcome to NeuroTalk. You experience sounds very familiar.
Nobody can say how long it takes to recover. We can say that you need to get quiet rest to recover from prolonged concussion symptoms. 85% recover spontaneously. The other 15% can take weeks, months and years.
Your head pain from swimming may be from upper neck inflammation. Neck injuries are often overlooked after a concussion.
If I understand correctly, you passed out 30 minutes after your injury ?
The low heart beat sounds like a brain stem injury/inflammation causing your heart beat to slow. This again can be a neck issue. C-1/atlas to occiput is an unsupported joint. The lower vertebra have more socket/mechanical structure. Dislocating the atlas-occiput joint can put stress on arteries and cause inflammation that can effect the whole system.
Has anybody suggested icing your upper neck while in a good posture ? This would be worthwhile.
The Emergen-C packets do not have nearly enough B vitamins for an injured brain. Read the thread Vitamin Supplements and check out the links at the bottom of the post. There is a lot of good info there.
Feel free to ask or tell us anything. We have heard it all. Lots of good people here.
Now, try to get quiet rest with minimal visual and audio stimulation, this includes work.
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Mark,
Thanks for your help, I have only noticed about my neck following a black out in January, this resulted in another CT which was clear. I started to get pain in this region after the fall and it hasn't gone away. Thankfully this hasn't happened again. I use a heat pack on it, but haven't tried ice yet!
I think that its only when you begin to recover that you realise what really helps and what the problems are. Things were clear in November, but December and January were a foggy haze full of fatigue and pain where I was living hour to hour. It was only at the end of January when I requested migraine medication that I had relief from the headaches.
I have got lots of quiet rest since, I am not in work, but am thinking of going back - although my job is very stressful. Going back to work might get me back into a routine and help my sleep, the only trouble is it is about 25miles away from my home and takes 40 minutes to get to.
I was able to weed the garden for an hour the other day with no reaction, have mopped and hoovered house (with earplugs) and no reaction, I have also walked half a mile with no reaction straight away, but admittedly felt a bit fatigued later that day, but a hot bath resolved this. If I tried any of these tasks last week I would have had severe symptoms again! I have recently experienced fatigue and the aura that post concussion headaches/symptoms are coming (which previously resulted in 3 day bouts of headaches, fatigue and noise/light sensitivity) - but this is no longer happening anymore.
My main issue is insomnia at the moment. I am wondering if as people improve, does insomnia become more of an issue? Or perhaps I am just more aware of it now, getting to sleep isn't the problem, it is waking up at 2 or 3am in the morning and not being able to get to sleep that is the issue. Does anyone have any tips on this? I think that if I get back to 7hrs sleep again instead of 3/4 hrs sleep per day I will fully recover.