9 Tips to Starting Your Brain Injury Recovery Process

I really do not think this type of article is very helpful. How many people can actually do these things? I found this website once and then forgot about it for a year, much less being able to follow a list, or do things like journaling or meditation. I am three years out from my head injury and I still cannot do those things. The first thing I would suggest is putting a huge white bandage on your head and d not take it off. Otherwise everyone just thinks you’re fine and you cannot even make a sandwich. No one helped me at all. I was just left alone. If anyone ever hits me from behind again I hope it just kills me. It has been the worst experience of my life. I have hated myself and thought about suicide about 100 times a day. No one understands you, not even my mother. I gained 20 pounds because I could not remember if I had eaten, so I would eat again. I could not keep track of anything, if I wrote something down I would forget I did it. If I wrote a journal for each day I would be writing “I don’t remember” over and over, and leaving it in different places, and probably never find them again. We need help from other people!! You cannot take care of yourself. I laid on a futon with the lights out in 95 degree weather, could not make food, ate everything over the sink, no preparation and no plate. Just hand to mouth. Couldn’t cook for six months. Did not do laundry, each nightI would hand wash my underwear and would hang up other clothes so they would not get wrinkled. Wore black pants so they didn’t show dirt. Could not do an entire shower, just get wet and a little shampoo, rinse. Did not wash my body, it was too complicated. Just towel off. I needed help but everyone just left me alone. I do not even know how I survived.

My husband was hit by a tree branch just over the top of his eye and needed four stitches but is complaining that he doesn't feel right what is the best thing to do for treating

I fell and it knocked me out and I didn’t remember falling, but I started having severe head pain and looked at my scalp and there was a lot of bruising and some blood. It has been 2 weeks. My neck was bruised and behind my left ear, which all of the injury was on the left side. Now my left ear is constantly making noise, I did go to the ER and have a concussion. I have had headaches everyday; however, the longer I heal, the concussion site ha severe shooting pains on and off with a regular headache. Does the concussion site hurt worse as it heals? I’m 59, and have never had anything this severe. Any input will be appreciated. Thanks

I am 66 years old and do athletics to a high veteran standard. 4 months ago i was doing resistant band work and ran out too far and it yanked me back in the air and i knocked myself out on the track. I was brought around by water and did not remember my name for about 2 hours after. A week later I felt ok and ran a couple of races that weekend. 2 days later I could not see dizzy etc and was diagnosed with post concussion syndrome. Since, I feel awful still, no energy, tired all the time, headaches. How long will this last.

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Hi, I have a mild concussion and I bumped my head a little hard a few times while I was suffering from my mild concussion symptoms, how long should my mild concussion symptoms last now?, it's been 1 month and 3 days since I started having mild concussion symptoms and my symptoms are anxiety, sadness, excessively crying, and remembering new things rarely but sometimes. Also I'm a kid but I'm in middle school. Please answer.

Water. You need water as much as you need sleep

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I can vouch for meditation. I first read years ago that it opened up new neural pathways; and so, I was hooked. Meditation, which I've done for years( using Centerpointe's programmed meditation soundtracks), and then yoga the last 2 yrs. Both huge in my recovery. And I truly believe that; if you can breath, you can do yoga, and sustain great benefits from it.  Centerpointe.com Peace & Love!☀🌻

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The fact of the matter is that doctors graduate from medical school and residencies with virtually no understanding of the long-term and permanent cognitive impairments caused by brain injury, how to recognize the symptoms, or what the appropriate follow-up would be. Even neurologists, psychiatrists, neurosurgeons, rehab physicians, and ER physicians are not adequately trained to deal with the chronic phase of brain injury. I went to the brain rehabilitation clinic at Mayo Clinic and was not offered anything substantial. I had to find what I needed (intensive neuropsychological/holistic cognitive rehabilitation) on my own, and I had to pay for it out of my own pocket. -- Maria Romanas, MD, PhD