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Greg 21.01.15

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  1. Good luck let us all know if you have any success, I'm still stuck in the process to get the DVLA to send the hospital a questionnaire.......
  2. Hi Claire Good luck with the fatigue, and enjoy the exploring by bus. greg
  3. I'm in the middle of applying for my bus pass too / fighting with the DVLA. Bit of advice, the form from my local council needs signing off by my GP which wasn't obvious so I have just had it returned to me. At least the council are processing things quicker than the DVLA... Slight off topic, but I was interested in the comment from Clare above about the date from which the six month suspension starts. The DVLA did the same thing to me, and set the suspension date from an administrative date not a date that was clinically relevant to me. I have been encouraged by my hospital to try to give further evidence to get the suspension time reduced, though I'm not hopeful that I will be successful but I am hoping that at least I could get the start date of the 6 months brought a little earlier. Rob good luck in getting your license back, greg
  4. First of all thank you to everyone that replied with words of support and good advice. It is much appreciated and I will do my best to heed as much of it as I can. To state the obvious but it is really helpful to know that other folks have been through / are going through the same and you are just part of the norm. I have since writing made a positive decision to ask the doctor for another month signed off (I see him tomorrow morning). I was really stressing myself about wanting to get back to work (I'm lucky I enjoy what I do (most of the time)) but just after writing this first post last week my head was spinning, it brought it home I'd be nuts to try to go back yet. I will be on a phased return but with the best will in the world people find it hard to appreciate the limitations. I have heard so many times how well I look and I know its meant kindly, but..... This coming week, I am going to speak with Headway, spend more time recovering after doing whatever, and take up the chocolate weight lifting regime suggested above! Thanks all, speak soon! greg.
  5. Hi All Where to start....... I had a non-aneurysm SAH on the 21st of January, 2015 while I was training in the gym. All the standard symptoms that folks have described here. Luckily after being brought home my wife managed to get the NHS direct to understand there was a real problem that probably shouldn't wait till the next morning and an ambulance arrived. After a miss-diagnosis of heart issues I got transferred to a neuro specialist unit and when I came round 36 hours later I had an EVD inserted and a thumping headache! Unfortunately the EVD introduced an infection into my brain and a rough few days followed while the antibiotics did their stuff. The drain was removed after two weeks and the antibiotics stopped a week later at which point I came home. I've been home about two and half months now, and I know I am probably just being incredibly impatient but recovery seems to be taking for ever. Just when I think I am turning a corner, gaining a bit more strength or not needing so many painkillers and then "bam" back come the strong headaches and all the other associated issues of tiredness, nausea etc. My acute care in hospital was second to none, and I am eternally grateful to everyone that looked after me, there are some real saints in that hospital, some amazing people who fixed me up and got me on the road to recovery. Where I am really struggling is with recovery, I know from everything I read on these forums it is such an individual thing. I have (luckily) never experienced anything like this before. With a cold, flu, a broken bone, every day it gets a little better, it's a linear thing, but with SAH some days I can feel absolutely fine and then the next headaches, head spinning and it feels like I am back to square one. I want to get back to work, but I can't even manage to see my colleagues for lunch (in the pub) without my head doing loop the loop and headaches for the next couple of days. I was discharged with only a three month follow up and told take it as life as usual just in moderation (which I have). I have very gradually tried to get on top of the physical lack of stamina and I know how to get fit again but my mental stamina isn't improving and I don't know how to help myself build my strength up in this respect. Have other people had similar experiences? How have any of you dealt with this? As always I have waffled on, apologies, a bad headache day compounded with a fair amount of cabin fever, it helps to get it out there, so thanks for reading this far! Any thoughts, advice or just pull yourself together man will be much appreciated! Cheers greg.
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