Lingering TBI Issues
I continue to have cognitive difficulties and overwhelming fatigue due to my mild-TBI. I whacked my head on a low 2x4 brace while building our new trash shed back in early June of this year. I briefly grayed-out... knees buckled as I fell toward the ground... then came to seeing stars in my vision. Then, I whacked my head about half a dozen more times in the summer months while working around the house... same area of my head too!
This fatigue I am experiencing is both cognitive and physical. I often forget about this injury but I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out why I've been so completely exhausted lately... why I can't even write... why I have no energy to even talk.
I struggle with overwhelming fatigue with my primary illness too but I usually have other symptoms accompany the fatigue. These other symptoms are clearly related to my primary illness so I don't question the overwhelming fatigue at those times. Lately, I am struggling with only overwhelming fatigue without the other usual symptoms. I get up in the morning... clean up, take my morning dose of medications... and I am already exhausted and ready to go back to bed again.
I can't think clearly enough to even effectively write about daily experiences here in my blog. Consequently, I am very far behind in writing here in the blog. I'm experiencing great difficulties in my other writings as well.
Socially, I haven't been myself in recent months either. I'm far quieter than usual... sort of zoning out... detached... unsociable.
My spinal pain has been brutal lately and I think it has been masking my head pain. Sometimes I get a tingling feeling on the top of my head where I whacked my head... sometimes I have relatively mild pain in that area, sometimes I get throbbing headaches where I whacked my head. And, although rare, other times it feels fine. My spinal pain has been far worse than my head pain so I think it often masks the head pain and I fail to notice it.
Uggg... I want to write more but my brain isn't cooperating. I type three to five characters... backspace, backspace... retype a few characters... backspace, backspace... etc. I can't think clearly enough to put my sentences and paragraphs in any cohesive order either.
This fatigue I am experiencing is both cognitive and physical. I often forget about this injury but I've been wracking my brain trying to figure out why I've been so completely exhausted lately... why I can't even write... why I have no energy to even talk.
I struggle with overwhelming fatigue with my primary illness too but I usually have other symptoms accompany the fatigue. These other symptoms are clearly related to my primary illness so I don't question the overwhelming fatigue at those times. Lately, I am struggling with only overwhelming fatigue without the other usual symptoms. I get up in the morning... clean up, take my morning dose of medications... and I am already exhausted and ready to go back to bed again.
I can't think clearly enough to even effectively write about daily experiences here in my blog. Consequently, I am very far behind in writing here in the blog. I'm experiencing great difficulties in my other writings as well.
Socially, I haven't been myself in recent months either. I'm far quieter than usual... sort of zoning out... detached... unsociable.
My spinal pain has been brutal lately and I think it has been masking my head pain. Sometimes I get a tingling feeling on the top of my head where I whacked my head... sometimes I have relatively mild pain in that area, sometimes I get throbbing headaches where I whacked my head. And, although rare, other times it feels fine. My spinal pain has been far worse than my head pain so I think it often masks the head pain and I fail to notice it.
Uggg... I want to write more but my brain isn't cooperating. I type three to five characters... backspace, backspace... retype a few characters... backspace, backspace... etc. I can't think clearly enough to put my sentences and paragraphs in any cohesive order either.
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