Thanks for sharing the knowledge MarkInIdaho. That was useful. When I consulted a renowned neuro in my town, he just told me its all due to chemical imbalances in the brain that is causing the symptoms. I didnt understand whether he meant that with regards to my anxiety or the actual symptoms, but he never mentioned anything about torn or weak connections in the brain. The only fact remains that we cant do anything about it as of now.

Markniel, I read somewhere that the brain never stops healing and there is never a time when the healing is complete. So please dont lose hope and know that even if the healing is painfully slow you will always continue to heal.

I found a link that may help with the recovery. It mostly aims on healthy eating .Although nothing has been scientifically proven to help heal brain faster, atleast it will make us feel a bit stable emotionally and maybe help with the anxiety and stress as MarkInIdaho says about vitamins and supplements.

http://www.brainline.org/content/201...-recovery.html

Thanks Galaxy, I would love to believe that were true. I wish you had the source. All the reading I do for long term sufferers gets me depressed. I would love to read a hopeful one.
I take all the supplements and vitamins but Turmeric is my biggy. Supposed to really protect further cell damage from happening, so I will still have a mind left if they ever find a treatment.

Galaxy..there's a bunch more supplements mentioned on that website than I already take. If I buy all of them I will be taking 42 supplements

I hate to be blunt, but at 7 years post injury, does anybody have any idea what is worth taking and what isn't.

I understand free radicals and plaques need to be fought at any stage, but what about the supplements that are for repairing damaged neurons? isn't it a little late (2 or 3 years post) in the game at some point for that?

and how many substances do we need to fight free radicals?
I'm taking b12, b complex, D, C, E, Omega 3, turmeric and maybe a few things I forgot to mention. Where does it end?

should I really add •Brain Vitale•Coenzyme Q10•Phosphatidyl serine•Acetyl L-carnitine and glycerophosphocholine as the website suggests? an ideas?

And are all these going to help Any of my symptoms that I have listed or is it just cognitive function that is aided?

Well, my docs say I need IVIg..

Do you mean Intravenous immunoglobulin ? I have never heard of it used for PCS/mTBI. How will it help.

Sorry Mark, I have something else. I was just reacting to someone saying they take 42 supplements for damaged neurons, which are most probably also my problem. I wish I could make it better with supplements, but the docs say otherwise.

So did mine. A doc friend got me a supposedly great neuro, but pretty much all he did is he got me an MRI (the Czech Republic doesn't have many MRI machines -- most people don't get MRI scans). When I tried to ask him about a couple of supplements, he didn't even look at them and just said that I could only make it worse. A whole lot of recent research says otherwise, and I think it's common sense that proper nutrition and the right chemicals should aid in healing.

Coming to think of it, I don't think he's that knowledgeable about concussions. When I told him that my GP gave me an Mg injection when I cam with complaints about a week after my injury, he made it look like that was a very pointless and stupid thing. Now I didn't like being injected with something without being explained why either, but later I came across at least two scientific articles (one is at https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/art...es/PMC3307233/ ) that suggest that Mg, among other things, should be neuroprotective when present enough of it is present in the blood stream during or soon enough after a TBI. I don't know if that was my GP's motivation, but I would expect a great neuro to know about that.