Wanted to thank you from the bottom of my heart for all the love and support you showed me over the last few days . Hubby had a pain management review with GP and was prescribed codeine phosphate with paracetamol. I wasn’t convinced with this due to bad reviews of codeine so decided to stick with tramadol (50g 1 tablet with two paracetamols every 6 hours prescribed by neuro surgeon ) . This seems to have made a difference to hubby . He’s like a different person, the headaches and lack of regular intake was causing migraine which were causing sensitivity to light . Since doing the new pain management schedule his appetite has increased and he looks and feels miles better . Hope he continues and we can see him feeling better with the pain of a fractured skull and small brain contusions .
Much love xx
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That's lovely to read. His appetite returning will help him fuel his recovery. Little, light and raw meals eaten often will facilitate healing rather than a sit down meat and 3 veg with the family which will crash his delicate system diverting energy into digestion rather than healing.
Similarly a diet without stimulants like coffee, neat white / brown sugar in tea, alcohol, over the next few weeks will help him stay light and focused on healing. Looking after the early days of recovery will give him every opportunity to heal. On WebMD there is an article called A Healing Diet After Bone Fracture which will be helpful to him.
Glad you have the necessary information to follow the vehicle registration through the court system. As many say on here, you never think it can happen to you until it does. Over the years of posting, many of us have had a rant about the smallest and the largest of things that happen to brain injured people. Please do continue to use this place to offload. It never fails to amaze me the inner strength, fortitude, humour and courage of the posts on here and the responses that follow. It really is a magical place and much valued.
I won’t be leaving this group I can assure you . If I can help anyone as much as you guys have helped me it’s the least I can do . I’m learning something new each day and hubby is learning what is triggering his headaches ( concentrated too hard and pushing himself too much unnecessarily) and what he can do to reduce symptoms like having showers , meditation and moving his arms .. thAnk you guys x
Excellent. I’m glad his pains going. There’s nothing worse than pain that no one can help with. Sends me mad.
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Don’t forget the Garlic & the best is Red Krill Oil or cheaper not as strong Omega 3 oil daily. That will help his brain recover as best as it can.
I swear by them to stop me being more puddled than I am. That stopped me dying, but that’s another long explanation.
And low on dairy. No or very low cheese because less or none is better for you while he recovers.
Oh paracetamol and Tramadol, your other half will find that a rhino is stuck up his bum when he wants to go to the loo.
So 500ml Of Lactulose, and healthier diet, bran and brown bread helps a lot. Vitamin C helps little as well.
And Tramadol long term makes me throw up in my mouth that the GP gave me Lansoprazole.
I tend to buy Gaviscon chewable advance 60 tablets on eBay. They help better, less side effects and work quicker, especially after a pizza.
I know, what a wicked web we weave, having to take more tablets to counter effect the other tablets.
But I’ve tried without and I’m just a zombie in a dark place. But the options are few and far between.
With his sensitive to brightness, Sunglasses with a darker yellow tint to help recovery when he is outside, I wear them inside as well but can’t see bugger all that doesn’t help, I tie thin black elastic round mine and just keep round my neck 24/7. Look out for any house LED, old halogen lights or bright kitchen lights inside the house are piercing and aren’t always noticeable, and are best behind his field of vision that can and maybe is the trigger for some or all his pain, so in the long run will increase his Tramadol that has a snowball effect on all his meds. Just because you have a bright spot light or lamp somewhere. It’s surprising how sensitive our eyes can be. My sensitivity is mad.
I get pain over an hour later that messes up everything because you think, why am I having pain now. Strange. It might be quicker with your hubbys brain. The only way is to try it.
Brightness of tv. Strange but I’ve had to buy old TVs because of the flicker rate of a tv hurts my eyes and gives me banging headaches.
New TVs flicker less and so easy for the brain to pick up, also the new TVs with the blue light like in iPads and mobile phones is horrendous and setting headaches of.
Turning brightness helps with new TVs. I tried changing the flicker rate of a modern tv but strangely my brain knows what I don’t see.
Either that or and try Pilocarpine 1% eye drops. They make the retina shrink, but a double whammy with this is it causes headaches. Ironic eh.
That will improve in the next few weeks. Just best keeping on top now because medication isn’t good for anyone. I hate it but no choice that’s more annoying than anything seeing I was a health nut. And very careful because of addiction. It’s what half the USA is stuck on even after there better.
If you find out it’s his eyes causing the banging headaches. That means less Tramadol, less Lansoprazole and less lactulose. But life it’s usually that easy, but fingers crossed.
Can you get back to me on this link with any feedback or questions, I couldn’t find your old link because I forgot what I read and you said. It’ll be good to hear if anything works that no one helped me with, that took me years to figure out.
Have fun trying to figure out the tv, it took me years to fathom out that pain.
Head pain is like a deck of cards you’ve got to take one card of at a time. Either you have a full deck of pain or your lucky and it’s just one pain three quarters of the deck up that you’ve try and figure out.
Make sure he exercises how ever small. It’s great your there helping him. All helps because muscle loss happens pretty quick with a lot of people.
I forgot. Try and get in a routine of taking deep deep breaths in clean fresh air and hold for 5 seconds plus. It’s improves oxygen level in blood, that goes to your brain, to help you think better.
If your doing a trouser burp, your trying to hard.
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