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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 on