[seamare68]

I had been working 50+ hours a week as an accountant....then I had sinus surgery. The Doctor broke into my brain case and cause a closed head injury. I lost 4 days in a coma and then spent 2 weeks in the hospital. I now have issues with memory, word finding and balance. My worst seems to be the anger and the lack of patience I have now. I cannot work except 3 days a week (which I find extremely tiring). It takes me the 4 days just to rest up. I am interested in knowing if others have suffered the same and how they cope.

[CANDC]

Seamare, sorry you suffered an injury and are suffering from fatigue.

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[bigblackdog]

If you are working three days and then needing 4 to rest up, you are doing too much and not healing properly.

I had a head injury last year and had many of the same issues, which from my research are related to a temporal lobe injury.

You should be resting and following the post-concussion protocol, which basically is to rest until symptoms relieve, then start adding in activity like an hour at a time....any return of symptoms puts you back a step....

It's been eight months, I still have speech delays, word-finding issues, I have to ask people to repeat things often because they sometimes will say something and I have forgotten it before they finish saying it.

It does get a bit better, it's been 8 months. It gets worse when I am stressed and tired or rushed.

I found that after pneumonia, asthma, a pulmonary embolism etc, that this recovery was the longest. It was 6 weeks before I could get in that water and swim more than 8 laps without being laid out for the next three days...I then had to go up no more than 4 laps more at a time. I use to swim 100 laps or 4k at a time.

Finally, ask to see a specialist as it seems like you have post-concussion syndrome.

[bigblackdog]

As to how I cope, I've had to slow down. I've had to be open about hey, I've had a head injury and sometimes I _______.

My pdoc says that either I will continue to regain function, or not. Either way I would have to adapt.

I have the balance thing too.....