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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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To me, the first most important thing is not getting another concussion, and the second is to not be depressed.
No matter how much rest I have gotten, I do not get better, so I would rather just not be depressed about the headache. 4 weeks of rest is a very long time, and maybe it would be good for him to go back to school and distracted from his pain. I would say take him to a neurologist who specializes in migraines and then if that doc says its OK, let him go back to school, but not to sports. The other thing is if he has trouble studying, books on tape helped me a lot.
Each person is different with how much they can handle, but the main thing for me was not to be depressed.
Another thing that helped me was to realize that I could be better next week, but if I was not better in a year, that was OK too. There is a lot of good to be gained from this sort of injury, you can learn a lot of compassion and patience for other people who are in pain, and you learn how to ask for help.
It is very scary at times because I feel like I may never get any better, and I got my first concussion when I was 19 and now I am 24, but I just have to keep realizing that my family and friends still love me as I am and that I can still live a very full life, even if it is a different life than I imagined for myself before the accident.
I am not an example of what one concussion can do, because I have had at least 4 over 3.5 years, and it has been only a year and a half since my last concussion, so do not get depressed by the length of time this has taken me, but I am a warning to those who think it is not a big deal to get another concussion.
Good Luck!
In Christ,
~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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