That sounds so frustrating my Psychologist told me it would most like take up to three years to heal. I know 3 years after my bad injury and Concussion - I still struggled. I do a lot of community outreach work for AARP. At a conference recently on Dementia there was a top Neurologist from UNC and he said the way to best way to build brain cells was exercise.

I did some work and training with Brain Injured Adults back in '89 and I thought it depended on the injury. From what I have experienced I bet your effects are related- but I am far from a doctor. You may want to review your meds too. I know things change in our bodies, at different periods in life.

Hi all...
I'm new here and am dropping around as I have a doc appt tomorrow.

I fell 18 months ago at home, when I was 39, and ended up with what was described as a mid-grade TBI and whiplash. Since then, I have been dealing with a lot. At the time I fell, I was a grad student and planning on doing a PhD. I had to leave my program and then turned down a scholarship for a PhD as I just didn't think I could do it. I think I made the right decision but it's very depressing.
I suffer from headaches near the site of impact, as well as across my forehead. My headaches also stem from significant back and neck pain. I'm fatigued and have very low tolerance levels when aggravated. My daughter says she wishes mommy would come back and that kills me. So, I'm struggling right now. I just don't feel like the same person. Depression, anxiety, and fatigue, as
well.
So, I haven't been back to see a doc about this is in over a year. We moved out of the university community we were in and I have just gone on, trying to just plod my way through, focusing on what needs to be done. Finally, ready to go back and face that I need some help in dealing with this, whether it be on the physical or mental/emotional, or all of it. I have been scheduled for another MRI in June but tomorrow have my appt to discuss my symptoms with my doc. I know I have to do this but am nervous just the same. I have been living on my determination to get through and on homeopathics for a year and am really not excited about the potential of perhaps needing to get on to meds. I see there is talk in this stream about diet so I'll do some research.
Just looking for a place to learn and get some support from others who have been down this road.
Thanks.

I was finally living my dream and going to graduate school in 2009- when I had a bad car accident. I was told I was post Concussive- only a year later. In December 2012 I had another car accident. I am really struggling to find support and help. Don't know who I am right now and who I will be next month. I am very frustrated and depressed.

I feel the same often. It's tough. I was about to enter my second MA. Actually, the accident happened at home the night before classes started for Fall 2011 term. It makes me furious because I was whipping around trying to find things and in a panic and THAT is how I got in this situation. Tripped over a printer and banged my head on the corner wooden edge of the bed. I had moved myself, along with my family, to another province to do that program and then the night before---bang! Done. I try not to think about it because it is what it is and I am where I am, but I do get angry. I got to keep my TA post but had to drop out of studies and then said no to a PhD as I just felt I couldn't hack it emotionally or mentally. I thought I was going to be a Prof/researcher in social studies. Now, I can't find a job as, like many many others, I can't even get an interview. Too much education and too little experience is what I hear.
My only advice to you is that YOU are YOU, You are not your symptoms, as tough as those can be. We're still here. We do have to adapt and learn and face that things have changed. We've changed. But we're not gone. And you're not alone.

When I was at my worst, I was talking to my mother-in-law, and she pointed out, "You are lucky because no matter what problems you are having, you are still essentially you, and we are lucky we still have you." I realized she was right. I may have been impaired, but I was still me. Even now, I can't really do much reading or writing, which I have always thought was necessary for my existence or at least for my happiness, but I am not what I do. I am more than that. So are you!