I take on what you are saying.
Thankfully I am not a drinker or smoker.
I cant concerntrate on anything, not even my favorite tv progs.
Yr right, not much info around so am grateful to have found this site.
Many thanx for yr reply I will take it on board.

peachy,

Welcome to NeuroTalk. Sorry to hear of your injury and struggles. As others have said, you need time and rest. You are still early in your recovery.

Do you have access to Headway? It is a brain oriented health organization in the UK.

What are your current symptoms? How is your left eye?

Has anybody prescribed any medicines?

Sorry I did not see your post earlier. I was having a head ache day.

How old is your daughter? Just wondering what kind of a household load you have.

Your years of playing football may have included head injuries that you failed to account for because the symptoms were mild. Mild head injuries (sub-concussive impact is the term) can accumulate to cause later injuries to have magnified symptoms. What kind of football? Soccer-football, American football, rugby ?

I'll check back tomorrow.

Hope you have a better day.

My best to you.

Hi,

Soccer-football.

My daughter is 2. So far she has been babysat everyday and I cannot be on my own with her.

My house is 1400's, very quaint and a lot of wk to keep beautiful.
I had a friend turn up to do my cleaning and ironing this wk, so kind.

I am only on pain killers at mo.

I will check out this Headway group, thankyou for that.

I am not able to concerntrate on anything much. Just typing this one letter I am exhausted. My brain don't want to connect to my arms. Im having trouble spelling.

My vision is blurred and really hard to focus.

I feel so depressed. I have battled depression since I was 17 and for the 2nd time since then I was having a depressed free time. But its creeping back so fast.

My husband is frustrated. I am normally capable and busy and energetic. I release my anger on sport and dance I have nowhere to put this now so its going into me and becoming depression.

Im not good at rest and waiting.

Hi, hope your are still hanging in there. I have been to a few headway meetings in my area - they are quite useful on many fronts as they have access too so much local information on what services are available locally. My local one have a Neurologist and a Neuropsychologist on the management team both a useful sounding board for problems or ideas.

It may be cold comfort but after 6 months post concussion this has taken me 30 mins to type. I used to have a senior job in IT and now there seems to be a disconnect between me thinking of the words and what gets relayed to my fingers.

Outside of work I used to build houses and do DIY as a hobby doing this is nigh on impossible now. This used to burn off the physical energy that wasn't expended during the mental work. Now this builds up on time with no way to expend it.

Changing the diet is a major thing in recovery. When I first got injured my taste for certain things changed - e.g. I couldn't stand Tea. So I used to drink diet coke instead - 2 Litres per day which is a major no-no for recovery. At the top of the forum are some "sticky" posts that give some hints on nutrition. The supplements suggested are reasonably cheap and easily available from Holland & Barret.

Time and patience are the major thing. I am considerably better now than I was 6 months ago, still not "right" but moving forward.

Thank you for your kind letter.
I cannot write now.
maybe tomo

No problem - as they say tomorrow is another day

I did reply to yr message last wk but it was not posted for some reason.
Thankyou so much for taking the time to do so.
I will take on board what you say about diet and hydration and supplements.

Thank you.