Help greatfully received

[Muzzyfoxster]

Post concussion recovery.. I woukd like to thank every contributor on here..especially Cat and Painting Girl..

[cat3]

Always good talking with you Ian. Keep up the good work ! 🙂 Cat x

[Muzzyfoxster in reply to cat3]

Your my online older x sister x

[Painting-girl]

Thank you! 😊

Did anything particularly help, or is it just the relief of talking to people that think what's happening is normal.

For me I think being on here early on and reading what other people had written was more normalising somehow than a year of therapy.

[Muzzyfoxster in reply to Painting-girl]

The bitvabout exercisung to a limit then reducing...reaffirming what u shld do.for me i had 🕑 mths hardly used phone or watched tv..should be given list on hosp discharge. I read up online il but your info helped .Cat kicked my arse re trying go back to my former work too soon.

[Painting-girl in reply to Muzzyfoxster]

Really glad it helped!

How are you at the moment?

[Muzzyfoxster]

Still not totally rid of fatigue/ head pain v mikd though .hoping goesWhat about you

[Painting-girl in reply to Muzzyfoxster]

My neuropsychiatrist said the fatigue went last. My headaches are intermittent now and only connected to overdoing things - a few hours of computer screen use still triggers them, so I do as much paperwork as I can on my phone. I think I must still have some residual issues ( oculomotor at a guess) with scanning across a screen which I don't get on a phone screen. I get a slight head tremor when I'm flagging and/ or trying to concentrate on my phone - which now I'm aware of it, I can use as a cue to ease up.Having read some of the stuff on ADHD, I'm now slightly reframing my periods of fatigue when I grind to a halt as 'mental overload' because if too many things/ decisions come at me at once I just freeze up, and I feel I lose too much time that way - and I only keep to the habit of regular brain breaks when things are really busy now - so I think I need to look at them again and be more structured to see if I can reduce the time I spend not moving at all. I've put the Headspace app back on my phone to make sure I take more meditation breaks.

But I belong to three art groups, so I get to exhibit my work, and a flower club and the local garden society where I compete, and I flower arrange in my church, and my mother needs more care now (which is quite tough) and my new relationship is going well - so I'm not doing badly at all. Big change from just a few years ago, but going back to my old career isn't an option sadly, but I do get to embrace retirement,