Many car crash victims initially feel soreness and fatigue. While soreness may take weeks or months to dissipate, fatigue usually resolves itself within a couple of days.

However, there are exceptions when crash victims may continue to feel fatigued for several days or more. They may be sleeping a lot more than normal, but the extra rest does not bring back the energy they had before their car crash. In these situations, fatigue might be a sign of something more serious, like a traumatic brain injury.

If you are experiencing fatigue after a car crash in Minnesota, our car crash lawyers in Minneapolis may be able to help you take legal action to recover compensation for your damages. Our services come at no upfront cost, and we have obtained more than $1 billion for our clients.

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Why Am I So Tired After a Car Crash?

Car crashes are incredibly stressful, which commonly triggers the body into releasing adrenaline. Adrenaline helps to provide the energy your body needs to get through physically traumatic events.

Once the adrenaline wears off, however, crash victims often feel completely exhausted. They may also feel sore from the injuries they sustained in the collision. Your body is simply responding to what happened, and it needs sleep to start the healing process. This is a typical reason that victims may feel much more tired than normal during the days following a crash.

That said, sometimes feeling excessively tired is not just a normal response to a stressful experience. Sometimes fatigue after a crash may indicate a severe injury.

Do I Have a Traumatic Brain Injury?

You may be feeling excessive fatigue because you suffered a traumatic brain injury in the crash. Feeling drowsy or fatigued are two common symptoms of a traumatic brain injury, such as a concussion. This is particularly true if your excessive fatigue and excessive sleeping lasts for more than a few days.

You might doubt you suffered a head or brain injury because you didn’t hit your head during the collision. What you may not realize is you can suffer a concussion without hitting your head. Your head getting jerked forward and backward could be enough to cause a brain injury.

Sometimes crash victims hit their head, but they do not remember it happening. That is why you should never dismiss symptoms of a possible brain injury.

Could You Be Feeling Tired Because You Are Depressed?

While much attention is paid to the physical consequences of car crashes, these situations can also exact a heavy emotional toll. Victims may feel anxious or overwhelmed because of everything they need to deal with in the aftermath of a collision. They may feel anxious about their recovery and depressed because of the pain and discomfort they feel.

Emotional suffering may sometimes make it harder to sleep, but may also cause people to sleep much more than they did before the crash.

Trauma-Induced Migraine Headaches

Intense trauma, such as from a car crash, could cause people to experience migraine headaches. Some people who experience migraines feel intense sensitivity to light and noise. This often causes them to spend a lot of time in a dark and quiet bedroom, which can result in excessive sleeping.

Migraines can also be a symptom of a traumatic brain injury, similar to a concussion.

How Long to Wait to Sleep After a Car Crash

For the most part, it is perfectly safe to go to sleep after a car crash. In fact, sleep is an essential aspect of your recovery. Your body and your brain both need sleep to help recover from the trauma of the crash.

You may have heard stories about people going to sleep after a car crash and never waking up. They died because of a traumatic brain injury, likely due to a severe concussion or bleeding in the brain. That is why it is so important to seek immediate medical care right after a crash. With any serious injury, early diagnosis and treatment can be a critical factor in how well you recover.

You should also go back to the ER if you continue to feel fatigued, experience new symptoms or have any other reason to suspect a brain injury. In fact, even if you do not suspect a brain injury, you need to be evaluated by qualified medical professionals to determine the severity of the injuries you suffered.

How Long Could Fatigue Last After a Crash?

It is normal to feel fatigued for a couple of days after a crash. However, you should be concerned if you continue to feel exhausted for more than a few days. If you are sleeping much more than usual and you feel more tired than normal, you need to see a doctor right away.

What Should I Do if I am Experiencing Extreme Fatigue After a Car Crash?

Too often, crash victims do not err on the side of caution and wait too long to seek medical treatment. They ignore symptoms or they think these symptoms will resolve themselves over time.

However, if you are feeling excessively fatigued, you need to go to the doctor right away, so he or she can identify and diagnose your injuries. Be sure to report all the symptoms you are experiencing, including your excessive fatigue or sleeping.

If you wait to seek treatment you may be allowing a brain injury to get much worse and potentially become life-threatening. Waiting also makes it harder to connect your symptoms to the crash. If you seek treatment sooner rather than later, it helps to show that your symptoms are connected to the accident.

Make sure to follow through with your medical treatment. You may need to attend multiple follow-up appointments to monitor your condition. You may also need to get an MRI or CT scan to get a better understanding of your injuries.

Your next step is to seek help from an experienced attorney. Recovering full compensation for a serious injury is a lot more difficult without an attorney.

Victims often underestimate the cost of medical treatment for a car crash injury. If you have a brain injury, you might need treatment for a long period of time. There may be long-term or even permanent consequences that require ongoing medical interventions.

Contact TSR Injury Law For Post-Crash Legal Help

Need legal help after a car crash caused by another driver?

Many crash victims think they can handle the process on their own, but they often end up recovering much less compensation than they need. Call TSR today to learn about the benefits of hiring an attorney after a car crash. We have been representing crash victims in Minnesota for decades and have obtained millions on their behalf.

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