This is a sensible approach. You are temporarily ill so you need to take a temporary period off work. Pushing yourself whilst you have PCS isn't going to help you in the long run, it may well make symptoms worse.

Hi,
I am so glad that I checked in today and read your post. I am also at the 3 mo. mark - tried to go back to work 3 times with similar results - unfortunately I do not have a job that I set the pace - my job dictates the pace. By reading your post I feel a bit more normal and hopefully you will too.

This week was awful - but today I am feeling much better.

I look at it this way. If you have surgery or a broken limb - you get to decide how much you push yourself - I can see now that the brain is very different - IT decides how much you do.

I read someplace - you have to go 5 days of NO symptoms before you resume a normal pace - I am no where near that - have not had 1 day without a headache.

Sorry to go on - but perhaps if you read another sufferer you will at least know that you are not alone.

Take care - and take it slow.
G and B

Hello. It definitely makes me feel better to hear from someone who is in the same timetable as me as far as recovery. I just went to my primary care physician today and he is writing me a script to knock me down to half days at work. So I will be going in for 4 hours a day until I see the concussion specialist on May 1st. What a relief. I feel so much better. My doctor was worried that if I take off from work completely it will cause me unnecessary anxiety since I will be at home by myself probably worrying with nothing else to do. I feel pretty comfortable with the half days. I am most productive in the morning anyway so I feel comfortable and confident I will be able to do the half days while recovering. I will be able to contribute and stay in the loop with things at work until I hear the recommendation from the specialist.

As far as your comment of going 5 days with no symptoms then resuming a normal pace, I would take it a bit slower than that. The consensus on this forum seems to be a few weeks with no symptoms before amping it up just a little. I have went a week in my recovery with no symptoms and relapsed. The best advice I can give you is make a gameplan with your doctor and/or a specialist. I feel so much better now that I have a gameplan with work and the steps I'm going to take for recovery. Luckily for me I haven't been having very many headaches recently, but I am still experiencing dizziness, fogginess, and fatigue.

Another thing I started doing recently is upping my vegetable intake bigtime. I went out and bought spinach, kale, carrots, cauliflower, celery, etc. I am eating raw vegetables 2 or 3 times a day. Yes it doesn't taste great but it's really not bad when you get used to it. And these foods are LOADED with vitamins and nutrients. I figure it can only help with my recovery. Don't let your diet go to heck. I know my diet was slipping since I stopped exercising and everything but I'm back on the wagon again and I truly believe good food makes you feel better.

Good luck to you!