wakey,

It is a loosing game to try to look at your PCS prospectively. Every brain is different and every concussion is different. There is no way to plan on your recovery future in such a way.

The thinks that are true is there is a causal link between prior concussions, dings and even sub-concussive impacts in that the more history of brain trauma, the greater the need to be very careful with recovery activities.

If you want to try going for walks, give it a try. Wear good resilient shoes. You can even wear ear plugs to get a sense of the impact your steps transmit to your head. Work on developing a gait that minimizes this impact.

Don't walk until you feel you need to quit. Walk 10 minutes and see how you feel the next day. Increase this amount waiting to see how you feel the next day. Many of the symptoms from over-doing it do not show up until later, especially after the good feelings from the activity has gone away.

The value of leaving school is two fold. One, it will lower the stress on your brain. Maybe taking a reduced class load will be OK. Second, it will reduce the negative impact on your grades. If you have been able to maintain your grades to pre-concussion levels, good for you. But, reducing your class load may still be worthwhile.

The classes that are best to stay with have more hands-on work versus academic work. Hands-on tasks are great because the speed of the hands limits the intensity of the mental work load. The productivity of the hands-on tasks also give the brain some good reward chemistry.

The eye issue is worth checking out. A developmental optometrist, behavioral optometrist or functional optometrist ( different names for similar skills) may be able to diagnose if your eyes are focusing properly, converging properly, and any other problems that have a neurological base. A Neuro-Ophthalmologist may also be worthwhile but more expensive.

Try to remember, PCS recovery is a marathon process with ups and downs, not a linear sprint path with consistent improvement.

At 3.5 months, I was a hot mess. I'm now 11 months out and mostly functional. It is horribly slow and feels like you are never going to get through it at first. But you can and you will, eventually.

Please do consider taking time off school. I am a teacher, and I pushed through a week of teaching and end-of-semester grading. Even after I stayed home to rest physically, I was continuing to check work email, send in lesson plans, etc. I did not really start to recover until I stopped doing all that and truly rested my brain. I ended up missing an entire semester because I had overdone it at the start.

Sending healing thoughts your way!

Thanks for all the support. I am trying to rest for a few weeks to see if that improves things. It is quite frustrating when rest is the recommendation, but rest really means do nothing at all.

I played SuperBetter during the do nothing period. It helped me to think, "I'm earning 20,000 points by lying here staring at the ceiling!" instead of "Wow, it really sucks that I can't do anything."

You can find my thrown-together SuperBetter game on my blog. They are actually beta testing a real version over at http://www.superbetter.com and you might be able to get in on that.

good info here. Being new I find theraputic yoga and 30 - 60 min in a dark room to calm my mind and let it rest works.