Hello Everyone, just to introduce myself my name is Matt, I am 24 years old.


I received my first concussion from football at age 20. My symptoms were: intense headache, vomiting, nausea, and sleepiness. I was not unconscious and I healed very quickly (in about 1 month I had no more symptoms).

I received my second concussion from snowboarding at age 23. My symptoms were vomiting, nausea, intense head ache, and amnesia. I was unconscious for a very short amount of time (must have only been 5-10 seconds and I have no recollection of the fall, just right before the fall I remember)

It has been one year since my last concussion and I am still not fully healed. The symptoms I am getting right now is reduced memory (I had a very good memory before my second concussion, now I find myself forgetting the names of certain movies etc.) I get head aches while I am at work if it gets too stressful (I work in the finance industry in a contract job I only have 8 weeks left in my contract then I am taking time off until I get better). My head just feels "off" its hard to describe it. My neck is also quite stiff and painful.

I am trying to determine if my brain is still injured or it is now an injury in my neck that is continuing to cause my symptoms or a combination of both. I am starting to think I have occipital neuralgia.

This is my thesis for having occipital neuralgia: My occiptal nerves are quite tender. I have been going to acupuncture. I get accupunture both face up and face down. When i get accupunture when I am face down (so he can put the needles into my neck) sometimes my head does feel quite clear and I feel perfectly fine. Other times it does not seem to help my head very much. I feel like my neck just has alot to do with the symptoms I am still feeling, except it probably does not tie into my reduced memory.

Right now for treatment I am continuing to go to acupuncture three times a week, I am also trying to do light cardio everyday, and taking some supplements.

The supplements I am taking are as follows:
Fish oil, curcumin, pantethine, acetl l carnitine, b12, d3, and b 100 complex.

Basically with this post I wanted to introduce myself to everyone, I lurk around these forums alot. I wanted to talk to someone about how I am feeling, I am pretty depressed about my situation but I understand it could be a whole lot worse (recently me and my girlfriend broke up and my car also got stolen, my car did get recovered though which was good).

I also want to try to understand if it could be just my neck causing my symptoms, or my brain, or both (I think it is a combination of both but I believe my neck is causing a lot of my symptoms).

Does anyone have occiptal neuralgia that has similar symptoms to me? What did you do for treatment?

Well Thanks in advance for the help!