My husband has recently been diagnosed with Post Concussive Syndrome. He was in a motorcycle accident 26 yrs ago where he ended up in a coma for 4 days and sent home after a week in the hospital with no follow up. Two years ago he started having severe symptoms of PCS. He is now not working due to the problems.

My question is, what is the outlook? Will he continue to get worse or will this stop. He forgets everything, is dizzy, has severe mood swings, and is very illogical at times. Does anyone have a clue??

Glad you've found this wonderful forum, but I sure am sorry for the reason you have had to come here!

Your husband's accident was 26 years ago! wow!
Boy, I sure wish I could give some better feedback, but at least for now please accept a from me.
This really is a wonderful place to find good info and support...

Here's the "Post Concussion" forum direct link:

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/forum92.html

There are so many other subforums here that could benefit you greatly as well....so just make yourself comfortable and caring folks will be by!

Caring
Rae

Hello and welcome to NeuroTalk. Happy to see you have come to be with us.

There are great number of fellow members here to assist as possible. Just let us know if we can be of any help. My thoughts and prayers are with you.

Again welcome, looking forward to seeing you around.

Darlene

I have PCS and I have for a year and a half. From the tons of hours that I have spent reading up on it I have learned a lot!
First of all, it should not get worse after the first month or so, if it does you should see a doc and have a CT or MRI done. Second, most people get over it in 6 months, some people, like me, are lucky enough to have it for over a year and some even more lucky people have it for life. I am telling you the facts because after seeing 6 docs who gave me absolutely nothing all I wanted was the hard truth not "Oh, you'll be fine." Usually the symptoms to remain are headaches, personality changes, and the problems with education, if these symptoms exist and if they persist for more than 6 months. The biggest way to avoid having it for a long time is don't hit or jerk your head. Also, as time goes on the symptoms should lessen or the injured person should at least learn ways to cope. Caffine helps a little with my headaches or taking a nap.
I'm sorry I am not very cheerful, but it is hard to get the truth about it and it is better, I think, to have the truth than to just keep wondering and being fustrated and hoping that you will get better soon and then getting disappointed.

Good luck on your journey.
Margarite