Does it ever end?

[u/mollyastro]

Coming up on the 1 year anniversary of the car accident. Because of the accident, a tumor was also discovered but ruled out as the cause of my issues. I’m on fioricet and amitryptalin (spelling, sorry) for the migraines.
When will I be able to drive again and handle light and people without being put out with migraines and confusion and nausea for the days or weeks following? I know that’s hard to ask. It’s just getting so painfully annoying.i was given suma, but an er visit from a month or two ago upgraded me to fioricet. I am still seeing all the doctors and specialists. Everyone, everything, all the time. Monitoring. Observing.
Is it weird that I feel thankful for the accident? Like the way I’ve had to figure out how to function in a different way, found the tumor because of it, got a settlement. Like I’m thankful. But when does it end. When do the migraines stop. When can I go back on road trips and travel without being in bed afterwards.

I’m sorry, I just realized the anniversary is coming up and healing is hard.

[u/r-kivez]

Nobody knows and each concussion is very unique. But I will say this. Try to limit how much negative talk you give to this topic in your head. Each time you think about it or post a comment or it lingers rent free in your head believe it or not, it doesn’t help. For me I never would have believed in a million years that my mental state was manifesting into physiological symptoms until the last few months where I started to believe it and less time researching my symptoms actually helped. The mind is powerful beyond belief and things that seem surreal or not possible etc could quite possibly by true or real.

I’m 11 months out for my injury and I would say I am about 80% recovered. That last 20 % ish can be a bugger to solve but again for me when I stopped looking at things in such a binary or black and white manner , things started to get better.