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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 398
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Join Date: Mar 2013
Location: Minnesota
Posts: 398
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What I've Learned 1.5 months in PCS
1. I can't drive yet. I don't trust my perceptions. It is OK to ask for help.
2. Use Advil or its active ingredient for a headache -- not Tylenol or acetominophin
3. I will have good days (not so dizzy, not so light sensitive) and bad days or days where I OVERdid it and symptoms come back.
4. Vestibular therapy is helping me.
5. Take good vitamins. See the vitamin thread.
6. Eat good food. Not much junk food and limit or really try to quit caffeine
7. This message board is amazing the people are willing to help and share here. I am blessed to have found it.
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[SIZE="1"]What happened. I was in a car accident 2-23-2013, and got a mild concussion from it. I had some time off for brain rest, got somewhat better, but slipped into PCS in March 2013.
Symptoms I had: dizziness, light and sound sensitivity, fatigue, tinitis, occasional headaches and migraines,
Symptoms as of 5--2013: poor sleep, tinitis, some confusion /short term memory blanks, balance. The other symptoms are mostly gone, but flare up if I OVERdo something.
Therapy I had: vestibular
3 months in: I could drive more and for longer distances. I felt like a younger, happier version of myself and I feel so blessed to have this feeling.
9 months in and I am working full time. I do get tired, and some sound and light sensitivity from time to time, but mostly I am over most of my symptoms.
I pray every day and I m praying for your recovery.
Over a year in: I can multi task (limited) and have humor in my life. But when I am tired, I am very tired.
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