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Personal experience: I’ve played rugby union & rugby league. Competed in karate, taekwondo, boxing, kickboxing & mma. Had a life unlike many that included many blows to the head with various objects & more concussions than I can remember.
Current situation: age closer to 50 than 40. When I’m tired I tend to slur my speech a bit, the more exhausted I am the worse the slurring gets (can be mistaken for drunk). My long term memories are ok, but short term not so good, sometimes can’t remember why I walked into a room, I have trouble learning new things/skills, I’ll eventually pick it up but I was once I person that learnt things very quickly. Reading a book I’ll often have to reread a page as I can literally forget what I just read as I turn the page. Takes me ages to post on the forum as I sometimes lose track of what I was saying or repeat what I’ve already said (you’ll notice 90% of my posts have been edited). Have suffered from vertigo in recent years, doctors have said this is also related to my past head trauma. Vocabulary has decreased, I know the word I want just can’t find it in the depths.
There are other issues but funnily enough I can’t think of them at the moment, worked 11hrs today.
As a disclaimer I’m also I recovering alcoholic & drug addict (3yrs clean) so I really didn’t do myself any favours.
I manage this by staying as fit & healthy as I can, keeping a positive attitude & minimise stress, not really improving but not really getting any worse either. Professional prognosis isn’t fantastic as I get older, but I’ve stalled it for the time being when they said I couldn’t, & I’ve proved them wrong on many other occasions.
Edit: changed some things that rambled & didn’t make sense (exhibit A).
Current situation: age closer to 50 than 40. When I’m tired I tend to slur my speech a bit, the more exhausted I am the worse the slurring gets (can be mistaken for drunk). My long term memories are ok, but short term not so good, sometimes can’t remember why I walked into a room, I have trouble learning new things/skills, I’ll eventually pick it up but I was once I person that learnt things very quickly. Reading a book I’ll often have to reread a page as I can literally forget what I just read as I turn the page. Takes me ages to post on the forum as I sometimes lose track of what I was saying or repeat what I’ve already said (you’ll notice 90% of my posts have been edited). Have suffered from vertigo in recent years, doctors have said this is also related to my past head trauma. Vocabulary has decreased, I know the word I want just can’t find it in the depths.
There are other issues but funnily enough I can’t think of them at the moment, worked 11hrs today.
As a disclaimer I’m also I recovering alcoholic & drug addict (3yrs clean) so I really didn’t do myself any favours.
I manage this by staying as fit & healthy as I can, keeping a positive attitude & minimise stress, not really improving but not really getting any worse either. Professional prognosis isn’t fantastic as I get older, but I’ve stalled it for the time being when they said I couldn’t, & I’ve proved them wrong on many other occasions.
Edit: changed some things that rambled & didn’t make sense (exhibit A).
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But in all seriousness, there's definitely a price to pay when it comes to the accumulation of hard sparring.