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Old 04-06-2013, 01:23 PM
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Yes, you are not alone. I have had to learn that I only have so much energy and I just do a few things every day. As long as I keep to the boundaries that my body imposes on me I don't have major symptoms. When I push it I do. I also think for the people who have had this condition for a long time and medication is needed that you have to work to find what medications work for you and keep a balance. That does not mean trying to get back to where you used to be but keeping a balance with how you are now. I have found medications that work for me and am much better to be around, have better behavior and feel more in control of this chaos. I think depression, anxiety problems, concentration, memory and fatigue issues all come along with this condition and you just have to accept that and do your best to manage the situation as it is now. This is a real challenge for all of us as we all seem to have been real over achieve-ers and always pushed ourselves to do so much in the past. I have owned two businesses and always been such a hard worker. Learning to accept this new slower life is hard but once you do, you may find you like it better. We now have time to stop and smell the roses sort of speak. Make the best of it. Don't be so hard on yourself. As long as you are doing what you can then that is all that can be done.
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Had MVA in 2006 resulting in post concussive syndrome manifested by cognitive impairment, chronic pain/ fatigue. Chronic pain of head, neck, back, left leg.
Other problems include REM sleep behavior disorder, nocturnal frontal lobe epilepsy, chronic migraines associated with nausea/vertigo, episodes of passing out, hypoglycemia, liver dysfunction (had accidental overdose of acetaminophen in 2009) had liver and kidney failure, hernia, degenerative disc disease with compression of nerve root, PTSD, and other problems associated with functioning problems from traumatic brain injury (light, sound sensitive, easily overloaded, easily distracted, cannot focus, anxiety problems etc.)
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