Hello, I am Sarah and I suffered a concussion on September 25th at work when I slipped backwards with a heavy crate and hit the back of my head on the metal floor and the crate fell onto me and onto my head. It has now plagued me with horrible Post Concussion Syndrome symptoms.

I am 23 but I have been threw a lot of illnesses and deceases(skin cancer, Tonsillectomy, Epilepsy, liver failure, kidney failure, shingles, hospitalized for H1N1, etc, just to name a small amount of them) for my age with a number of surgeries and time in the hospital, so I am very used to bed rest, but in shorter periods of times and I usually am able to ignore the pain but this has made me feel so fragile.

I had not improved in my symptoms for over a month, if anything I have become worse. I have constant headaches, most of the time they are a pain level 6-7 but they often throughout the day jump up to a 9-10 which was making me become nauseated and violently ill daily, this caused dehydration and I lost weight and my skin became a grey colour. I had been seizure free for about 5 years but since the accident they have now begun again. I have bad confusion and memory loss and experience short term memory loss on a daily basis, I have to keep a list of things I need to remember now. I am rarely able to leave the house, once or twice a week at most, otherwise the symptoms become much worse. Due to this I have become depressed.

This depression is difficult for me because I am generally a very positive individual and I cope easily with stress. I am usually a very busy person and before this I was working 8-10 hour days and had a good social life. I was put on Amitriptyline for the migraines, headaches, insomnia, difficulty eating, and irritability. But this was making my depression worse, was making me have no appetite, and was making my irritability much worse, it was improving the migraines but thats about it.

I am a pro marijuana individual and believe it has a lot of healing power and I often turn to it for treatment and I brought this up to my doctor. He agreed and then told me the benefits of Marijuana and he researched its effect on a Post Concussion Syndrome and it said that it helps with a number of the symptoms and can help in healing the brain. I began to use marijuana on a regular basis to combat headaches and nausea. I immediately noticed a difference, I still have the headaches but I am able to tolerate them, they now are at about a level 3-4 pain, I am more alert, I am able to handle the depression with a brighter outlook, my irritability is gone as well. Also I am finally able to eat again.

I am still far from returning to my normal life but I have found what can help me to get threw it with a more positivity and I believe it should be used by more people who are suffering from PCS.

I know this can be a controversial topic but thats alright.