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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 162
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 162
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Originally Posted by paty123
Thank you, Mark. You don' t know how great it is to hear from you. It sounds like you know your stuff.
Yes, my symptoms are mild. I don't feel dazed as much anymore (the first week felt awful, very foggy and then it would clear up in the middle of the day.) unless I am anxiety ridden I guess. The mild twinges of headache don't hurt much but I did get headaches that are at a level 6 out of 10, but that has only been about 3 times since the concussion.
So if there was anything internal I would know by now? I am in my 30's, healthy and have never had any medical issues. For this reason, the doctor did not suggest a CT scan and promised I was not bleeding and did not have blood clot. I keep having images of me walking around and having a seizure at some point. My anxiety symptoms confuse me with the concussion symptoms. I started Zoloft this weekend, very low dose. Hopefully that helps. I also got a massage for my neck, I hold all my stress there so maybe that will help with the headaches.
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I would say ask your doc, this isn't something to play around with or take some info off the internet. People do die from concussions, and a CT can just make sure that you most likely will not die. It also brought me a lot of peace to know that this weird stuff that was going on with my body was not some signal of something worse that I was just ignoring.
One time of radiation won't kill you, but avoiding it could.
Good Luck!
~Margarite
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Fell off a horse in late winter of 2009 blacked out for a couple seconds, had amnesia for 10 hours (still don't remember this time), had 2 CT scans, 2 MRI's, 1 MRA all negative. Since the first concussion I have continually knocked my head into different things purely by accident or from being stupid. These many concussions over a short period of time have caused
constant migraines, nausea, and dizziness/lack of balance.
Migraine triggers are:
light sensitivity (especially to florescent or bright lights)
sound sensitivity (especially to high pitched or loud sounds)
temperature sensitivity (especially to cold or extreme heat)
activity (especially if breathing increases or head is jostled)
pressure on head (sinuses, hats, headbands, sunglasses, pony-tails)
lacks or quality (food, sleep, water)
tension (stress, tight muscles, tired eyes, sickness)
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