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TBI Recovery

Updated on April 8, 2024 in Ask A Coach
2 on April 3, 2024

I’m trying to recover from a TBI brain injury 5 weeks ago.  My MRI shows white spots.  I had issues before (coworkers have talked about me being non-neuro typical and I was partially physically disabled) so I took an assessment (AC Brain type 11) and I am now showing an AC Brain type 13.  My Webneuro results show me as below average in cognition while before I was a high-functioning (top 10% in my fortune 500 company) Systems Engineer in a very high-stress specialty.  

I am half-way through “Brain Warrior” and am attempting to make diet changes. Right now I only have energy for making a chopped salad every few days. So trying to eat lean protein and veggie/fruit carbs.  I got a CPAP last Thursday which is helping my sleep.

Bottom line is right now I’m stupid right now and I can’t figure out how I’m supposed to use this website to get better. What is the daily regime supposed to look like to start moving forward?

 
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0 on April 3, 2024

Thanks for your question, and we are glad you are here. Sounds like you are doing a lot already to support your brain health, which is wonderful!

Your brain type plan summary will give you overall long-term goals for brain health optimization. On a daily basis, use the journal on the main page to guide you through what your intentions for self-care are that day, reflect on gratitude, and monitor how you are feeling as a result of your self-care. This journal can also highlight what specific tools/exercises might be more helpful than others for you depending on your ‘rating’ of yourself that day.

Remember to be kind to yourself on this journey. There are many layers to brain and body health, and perfection is not required, nor possible, for any of us. Best to you! -Zoe

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Greetings. Brain injury is just no fun, especially when you go from high functioning to not. You have an advantage in time, the injury is still pretty recent and though I’m not a medical professional I’m not stranger to TBI. Perhaps I can share some things that I learned in course of my recoveries. 

Being accustomed to “high functioning” life & a professional I went from being quite proficient to deficient and it was tough. I was tired, very sleepy so much,  sleep is so good for healing the brain, so I found I had to get over feeling of not getting enough done and let my body do it’s thing. My job was to feed it, hydrate and rest. …

However, perhaps unlike you my brain had suffered an earlier injury [childhood], which the neuropsychologist said had set me up for more severe damage, there was much cognitive and neuro work to do. My treatment was delayed which was insane, but even with the small window I was given I chose to give it my all. I asked the doc after my evals how long it would take to get report to begin work – at least 6 months!!!  That was long and I was already far in, at that time the window to heal was 2 years, with that window fast closing I asked what I could do to help myself until they could. I was given a list of tasks and got busy. That REALLY paid off. 

ALL medical professionals and help me on path to disability and kept trying to feed me meds that I refused, their reasoning better suited the interests of big pharmaceutical companies and no way were they going to have another training rat in the field. I said if you can not look at my brain and target the problem, I won’t take them and there were many. 

You have a HUGE advantage to have found Amen Clinics. Daniel Amen is who I needed in 2000, it would be another 21 years before I found him and it saved me. I had to change my field and that was fine, Becoming an IT professional has served me well. This is long, my apologies, I hope you glean something and recover well. The brain is so incredible. Sometimes it hurt as new pathways were being generated and that was a welcome thing, my brain was finding it’s way in the darkness to brighten my days once again. 

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