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Old 01-05-2014, 01:57 AM #1
Marina22 Marina22 is offline
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Default 3.5 months setback - still suffering, symptoms changing...

It's been 3.5 months since my setback (bumped heads with my son while he was hugging me, I was symptom-free for more than a year before that). I'm still suffering

Brain fog is gone now (yay!), I can handle crowds, watch TV and use a computer(limited). However, head pressure, fatigue and headaches are still there . I'm starting to get scared that these symptoms will never go away. Headaches have changed though. It's kind of on surface of my head, not inside (hope that makes sense).

I have two biggest concerns. I have a huge fundraising event coming up in February, which I have volunteered to chair (before the setback happened). Now I am concerned that I won't be able to handle it at all.

My second concern is that I have very good friends of mine, whom I didn't see for 7 years coming to visit me in March. they've never been to US and I am very excited to show them around. But will I recover by March? Maybe I shouldn't do my charity event? Any thoughts, ideas are welcome.

Thanks for reading this!
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2002 - hit my head on a washer door while doing laundry. Recovered in 24 hours (was 7 months pregnant at that time)
2005 (maybe 2006) - kitchen cabinet (it took me ~ 1 week to recover)
2009 - refrigerator shelf, recovered in 1 month
summer, 2011 - metal rail, the life-changing concussion. Black out for ~10 minutes, spent ~2weeks in bed (wasn't able to even use a bathroom by myself). Made a complete recovery in 2 months.
October, 2011 - washer door again. Recovered in 1 months.
March, 2012 - kitchen cabinet again. Suicidal depression. Was diagnosed with OCD. Severe anxiety. Was completely recovered in 4 months, celexa is a magical pill.

After that I managed to go almost 1.5 years without a concussion! Was at a completely symptom-free stage, started volunteering at my kids' school again. I was living a happy life. Then,

August, 2013 - fell down the stairs, broke my ankle badly (my surgeon said that he literally has never seen anything that bad ever before and he's been practicing for more than 20 years).
September, 2013 - my son was hugging me and we bumped into each other. Result - complete return of all of my symptoms., no improvement with time. Severe depression again.

7/7/2014 - hit my self on a metal shelf again while trying to clean.


I'm not clumsy. It's just the floor hates me, the tables and chairs are bullies and the wall gets in the way.
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