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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: canada
Posts: 553
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Join Date: Oct 2012
Location: canada
Posts: 553
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I agree with Starr. Same experience...feelings, etc. You will improve! For sure! It really is early yet...and you just need to have a plan to exist hour by hour. That is what I tried to focus on. Now I am more day to day, which is a HUGE improvement. But we need to acknowledge that you are going through hell. Hang in there. Get through one more hour. and then another. and then another!
Time will pass, you are still you, things may change, but you are still you.
Last bit...don't worry about exercising. I would skip it all because you probably have pretty severe dysfunction at the vestibular or vision or balance or movement levels. You can always get back in shape after. That is what I have started doing after almost a year and a half. As you said, the brain is number one for you, not the body!
Re: friends. Accidents have a way of distilling the important things. If they are not there for you now, that means they never were good friends to begin with. I am learning this myself. Not easy lessons, but important ones.
lots of good vibes to you and your family.
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What happened: Legs pulled forward by a parent's hockey stick while resting at the side of the rink at a family skate....sent me straight back. I hit the back of my head (with helmet) on the ice, bounced a few times, unconscious for a few minutes. September 11, 2011. Off work since then…I work part-time at home when I can. It has been hell but slowly feeling better (when I am alone☺).
Current symptoms: Vision problems (but 20/20 in each eye alone!) – convergence insufficiency – horizontal and vertical (heterophoria), problems with tracking and saccades, peripheral vision problems, eyes see different colour tints; tinnitus 24/7 both ears; hyperacusis (noise filter gone!), labyrinthian (inner ear) concussion, vestibular dysfunction (dizzy, bedspins, need to look down when walking); partial loss of sense of smell; electric shocks through head when doing too much; headaches; emotional lability; memory blanks; difficulty concentrating. I still can’t go into busy, noisy places. Fatigue. Executive functioning was affected – multi-tasking, planning, motivation. Slight aphasia. Shooting pain up neck and limited mobility at neck. Otherwise lucky!
Current treatments: Vestibular therapy, Vision therapy, amantadine (100 mg a day), acupuncture and physiotherapy for neck, slow return to exercise, magnesium, resveratrol, omega 3 fish oils, vitamins D, B and multi. Optimism and perserverance.
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