A site in the UK is devoted to cerebellum survivors but they cover just about every topic.
http://www.stroke-survivors.co.uk/welcome.aspx
Dean

There are balance exercises that you can do that may help... I would ask your Dr. if you could have another round of physical therapy and have them show you things that you can do at home, to get to the next level.

Even if you wanted to make one of the things at home... I remember that it was a board that was about 20" x 20" maybe a little bigger... and on the bottom center you could start out by putting a rolled up towel under it, so you could teeter totter, back and forth or forward or back on it while holding the wall. Standing on a rolled towel while going back and forth and holding onto a wall may help also. In PT they had a small dowel or square piece of wood nailed in the center of the board, then standing on it. They also had one that had a circle piece of wood so you could go in all directions... but with a towel you could start out that way.

Walking up stairs using a railing also helps balance.

Also, those huge exercise balls that you can sit on... lay on the floor and put your legs up on it and just try and balance them while you slightly move your legs back and forth on it. When you get better at that, try sitting on it, while you hold onto a chair, otherwise you'll fall. The next level would be not holding onto anything, and going from side to side.

I don't know if you'll make a full recovery but you will definately get better.

I also had a cerebellum stroke 3 months ago, i am still in therapy st, pt, and ot, to me i am getting worse not better and i dont understand it i do everything they want me to do but i feel like im going backwards instead of forward, Im like you i just dont understand, if any ideas plzzzzz let me know

faith, Just because someone does the therapy does not mean they will immediately get better. Retraining the brain using neuroplasticity may take thousands to million of repetitions to accomplish. Read the book, Stronger after Stroke by Peter Levine for an idea of what needs to be done. his blog is at - http://recoverfromstroke.blogspot.com/ and has great information
Dean

i guess im just grasping at straws, i went from a very independant person to not letting anyone help me to someone that has to rely on a walker to get around and to a person that cant drive and go when they want to. I see where angie had hers last april its been almost a year for her and it sounds to me like shes done everything she was suppose to do, and she still has the same things that im fighting everyday. the silver lining is we are still here and that sure counts for something. I am in therapy 3 times a week and like i said i feel like im getting worse, i wake up eveyday praying that this is the day it all goes away and im me again, in my brain i feel like im a stranger to myself, im not trying to be negative, but all this financially is starting to hit hard, i also had to have a stent put in my heart, 3 days later they had to cath me again, and 9 days later i had my stroke, plus im a diabetic so on a lot of meds. thank you for your response it was greatly appreciated

You might give some thought to Traditional Chinese Medicine therapy. Ruth Lycke, a woman from Iowa, did that and wrote about her experience in a book called Out of the Darkness and Into the Light. The book is pretty good. There's also a movie called 9000 Needles that I heard about that focuses on a stroke survivor who used TCM, but I don't know where it is showing.

Angie I know this is a few years old but I'm a physical therapist. I had a cerebellar stroke last year. I was 30. You might want to check out my blog at www.mycerebellarstrokerecovery.com

The aneurysm and stroke that followed coiling procedure was in my cerebellum. It's been since 2004 and I still can't hammer a nail in straight, same with lightbulbs. I fall a lot! Sometimes when I get up in the A.M. I would like to go ahead and doing any falling downs over with for the day. And the constant spilling drives me nuts. That might just be me and my messed up vision though. I don't really know if things have improved, stayed the same or gotten worse over the years. It took about 5 years to feel like I was as good as I was gonna get. Your diagnosis seems very positive though, and while you'll always have bad days, I'm hoping they get fewer day by day. Good luck!

I had a Pons stroke that went into both the cerebellum and brain stem a little when I was a child. Very rare that I'm still around supposedly. I function and look normal other than a limp. I deal with alot of hidden stuff though. It's like I have a slower cpu. I battle depression a lot. Physical stuff manifests when I'm stressed, ie speech, cordination, brain function, thinking. I don't deal with stress well. I still have issues after 31 years. The hardest thing to deal with has been the emotional issues and that my brain feels like its overloaded.

I've heard that doing as much as you can closer to the stroke is the best. So do as much recovery work as your doctors recommend would be the best. I know it's a chalenge at times but I think that's probably the best time to push yourself. Unless your doctors telling you to take it easy, push yourself to do as much physio as possible, certainly as much as is given to you. I don't think a full recovery is possible from what I've heard but the more work put in closer to the stroke, the easier it might be.

My advice would be to find a good physio that deals with brain injuries and do everything they say and more if it's advisable. Pushing yourself now, if advisable by doctors, will greatly assist you recovering to as much as you can.

Life can change in some amazing ways too because of the changes in the way the brain functions. At the end of the day though I need to tell myself I'm doing the best I can and thats really ok, even if that day is a complete write off.

I recently started going to a stroke support group and it was the best thing i've done in a long time.

Good luck with everything, Jonathan