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Old 09-04-2014, 09:32 PM #11
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Thanks! I just noticed that I gained my appetite back when I didn't worry as much and now that I'm back in school and it's hard to focus so that gives me headaches and leads to stress and loss of appetite so, I feel a lot better when I'm on here and knowing that I'm not alone, I would talk to my parents but they never had a concussion so it's hard.
You're not alone and you WILL be fine. It will just take time and you don't need to suffer without any help. See your doctor to get you though the hard times.
Someone will always get back to you in time on this board. And some time down the road you will be on the list of those who got better and left the board!! and that will make me happy.
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Thanks! And yeah I gotta talk to the Doctor and about going back on Ritalin...I just make myself crazy thinking that I should be better and that I'm never gong to get better and I will be making myself crazy forever, and it's not even like a painful headache but I got the loss of appetite back again (prob because if aniexty) and that really bothers me and now I feel cold in my legs and feet and my forearm sometimes so that makes me wonder what that is
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Also should I still be resting a lot? Like I mean I have school but other than that like at home
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yes, you should be resting still.. .you are still early on...
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The Start: MVA, t-boned, on 1-12-14 (my sons 5th birthday) and did not think anything of it.. my back hurt on site but everything else seemed ok. Lost about 10-12 hours from about 3 hours after the accident to the next day...Experienced terrible brain fog for over a month, plus intense headaches, nausea, dizziness, cognitive difficulties, disorientation, no short term memory, depression and just an overall hangover feeling daily.

Current Situation: I'm about 7 months in and my local neurologist has waived her white flag and therefore I am headed to Dallas to be seen (I have family there). The headaches are still daily. I have nausea, dizziness as well.

Drugs I have been on- Vicodin (off), Naproxen (off), proanolol (off), topamax (off), cataflam (off), Midrin (off), Flexeril (off) and now Namenda XR (off), Nortrptylin (off), Verapamil (off)

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Another question

I read that taking Motrin,Ibuprofen,Advil can make concussions worse, I was taking Motrin for the headaches after the injury and I took it for a while then stopped and started again....could that of made my headaches worse and make it take longer to recover. I stopped taking it now because maybe it made it worse
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I've never heard that ibuprofen can make concussions worse. I use it for head aches. Acetaminophen (Tylenol) is not good for the brain.

I just found a comment about ibuprofen, concussions and rats. No references were given.
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Mark,

I read that taking Tylenol was better because ibuprofen (isn't it the same as Advil and Motrin) could cause bleeding and bruising because it Is a blood thinner
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Advil is bad the first 48 hours.. this is because advil can thin the blood and if you have a bleed it can make it more serious.. after they have ruled that out you are fine to take advil...
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Current Situation: I'm about 7 months in and my local neurologist has waived her white flag and therefore I am headed to Dallas to be seen (I have family there). The headaches are still daily. I have nausea, dizziness as well.

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I think I took ibuprofen in the first 48 hrs and at that time I didn't know that I had a concussion just thought it was a headache...so I have no idea... They never scanned my head or nothing because I went to the doctor like a week and a half later.,..... So can taking that early on of made it worse
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