so i have felt pretty good today, very upbeat, hopefully its going to be a trend, just wondering if any of you had experienced what you thought was the end, only to have set backs out of the blue

I am at the 9 month point and am still having false dawns. I don't have any other symptoms apart from fatigue, so I have to be thankful for that. No headaches now with the help of medication.

If I didn't do anything I would be fine, but working and leading a normal life tires me out like never before. I know I will be 100% recovered when the fatigue goes away.

Feeling better is great but does not signify a recovery until the improvements last a week or longer. Try to keep doing what you have been doing the past few weeks. It should help this improvement last and hopefully become permanent.

My best to you.

Excellent news, this happened to me around 4 months ago, and I made the mistake of increasing my physical and cognitive work a ton immediately, don't make that mistake.

Hope it lasts

Great news, glad you are doing so well.

Everyone seems to have a different recovery curve. In my case, there was slow but steady progress through about the six month mark when the majority of my symptoms resolved, so I didn't experience any significant setbacks. Wishing you continued progress.

Unfortunately I have had many, many false starts over my 37 year history as a TBI survivor. I am trying to face with some kind of courage the ominous possibility that this will be a life-long challenge for me. But this is just me. Other people do recover from this, and it remains a possibility even in my case.

Ditto that for me as well. I actually went back to work 7 weeks after my injuries - WRONG thing to do, even though part of that was financial necessity. That may have contributed to persistent post TBI residuals and such for me. My brain never really had a chance to rest and recover.

29 year history as a TBI survivor. Still have good days and not so good days.

Well that was short lived. Yesterday out of the blue, i got extremely light headed, weak and dizzy. Alas all the problems are back to square 1

Sorry about the reoccurrence of these symptoms, but I’d challenge you to think about the “good days” as steps in a positive direction. I believe that optimism is an important component in recovery.

As TBIs go yours is fairly recent. At my two month mark I was assessed as having “significant difficulties in learning, recall, mental flexibility and executive systems functioning”. I kept a sense of optimism which helped me attend more diligently to the therapies I was given. Three months later those deficits had largely resolved and I was soon back to work.

Recovery is a journey, not an event. The very best to you as you continue yours, and celebrate those “good days”.