Hi everyone

If you already could not tell I'm brand new here. I'm here to learn, to seek help, and just to overall get support from all different people. Which I hope I'm in the right place for. Anyways, this will be long, but I first want to give some background. I'm 14 years old and hit my head playing football in my friends backyard on October 17 2014.

I will never forget that day. I was having a blast with my friends and just In a few seconds it impacted everything in my life horribly. From depression, to confusion, to all these symptoms that won't go away I feel stumped. I had hope for the first couple weeks then lost everything.

I pretty much have little to no hope now. Now, let me tell you how my life's been since the accident. Every single day I'm in this weird dreamy fog, and I'm tying this right now with it. It's almost like how people explain what being high id like. That's how I feel, everyday. And I have to push through it, in school.

My next symptom is my brain gets to a point in the day where it's heavy and tired that it makes it hard to do anything. And finally, depression. I'm depressed a lot now thinking how I haven't hung out with friends or played a sport in so long because of my symptoms. Well, I guess it could be worse.

That's all for now, if anyone can please reply and just talk to me that would be great. Other info: I go to a concussion specialist every 3 weeks and I'm seeing a neurologist in 4 weeks.

Make sure to talk to people about it, and hang with your friends in a different way , I was super active when I got this and am learning you gotta keep people in your life even if it's a different way, just hanging out or whatever . Sometimes tou may be making strides in the right direction and not even realise it, I was in the same funk, I went back and read some of the notes I had made months ago and that have me hope cuz boy was some of it non sense



Do your best to relax, the more you relax the better it will get make small adjustments to ease the load. Have some fun

SamG11,

Welcome to NeuroTalk. I'm sorry to hear you are struggling so.

What has the concussion specialist done to try to help you recover ?
What are you doing to try to recover ?
Are you still taking/attending all your classes at school ?
What do you do when your brain gets tired and heavy ?

Are you taking any meds or consuming energy drinks, etc ?
How is your sleep ?

What is you home life like ? Noisy siblings ? TV or video games blaring ?

The usual protocol for recovery is a low stress life. Minimal screen time. Minimal chaotic sounds and visuals. Moderated physical exertion so there is good blood flow to the brain but not too much physical effort/stress.

We are here to try to help.

My best to you.

Hi mark, I'm going to try to answer most of your questions as best as possible.

Well first, I'm taking omega 3 fish oil pills everday of1000mg, and super b 12 complex vitamins of 500 mg per day.
The concussion specialist has done all sorts of things to help, he has tried different medicines (that did not work), gave me tips on taking good care of my brain while it's tryig to heal, and tries to answer most of my questions.

Now for school, oh school. School has been probably the worst part of my pcs experience. It is horrible. All my symptoms increase drastically and I have to push through it day by day. I missed a bunch of school and did half days way back in October but I just missed too much school so I am forced to go. my grades changed from As and Bs to Cs and Ds because of it. And it just makes me more depressed.

My house, no one really besides my parents know actually how bad this is. So whenever my siblings see me crying or complaining about it they just yell at me and tell me to man up. And my house life is very lazy, I just rest all day and play a little bit of video games here and there. Anytime my symptoms get worse I just lie in a dark room and rest.


oh and one more thing I wanted to mention is that my two worst symptoms are: An dreamy/foggy like state in in all the time, and my brain gets so heavy and tired.

Hope I covered everything,
Thanks so much
Sam

Can you be more specific about the things the concussion specialist did ? What meds did he try ? Are you taking any of them now ?

You should not be pushing through until you are fatigued. It will take forever to recover if you are constantly pushing through.

You would be better to miss school and need to repeat than to struggle through almost failing your classes. A reduced class schedule with tutors would be best. Has anybody suggested requesting an IEP (Individualized Education Program) ? You may qualify. Here is a link to information.
https://www.understood.org/en/school...-and-504-plans

i don't remember the names of the meds, however I know that they were for my eyes and my head at the time because my eyes would burn and I would get headaches. (some symptoms I used to have but now are gone)


And for school, good idea with the missing classes and a tutor. I think next time I go to my specialist I'm going to talk about that and see what he thinks too.


Another think I wanted talk about more is about treatment for my symptoms. Do you know if there is any medicene or treatment for my dreamy/foginess feeling, and brain fatigue and heaviness?