My daughter 13 years had her 4 th concussion 8 weeks ago. She is staying home and resting she had been seen by her pediatrician, physicist and neurologist specializing in concussion, she also had MRI ( negative)
Her symptoms; constant 24/7 low grade headache which is worsen if physically or mentally active or if expose to noise or light. She has great long and short term memory and no balance or dizziness issue (was tested ), her neck is fine
We tried anti migraine abortive medication and amandatine with no success and discontinue and she is on low dose of beta blocker for about 4 weeks now
She is resting and home and attempts to go to school resulted set backs it is too noisy for her. She can not go to church for longer then 20 minutes - singing in high pitch increase her headache, flipping light switch when it is dark increase her headache loud conversation at the dinner table increase her headache ( we have 4 years old who speaks loud) walking longer then 10 minutes increase her headache. She lays down in dark room her headache goes down to low grade where she can function as described below .


She is at home listening to audiobooks (she knows and red before several times), just resting laying down in dark room, play with our dog, and walks a little outside. She sleeps well 12 hours a night and has regular sleeping schedule, she was reading a lot at the beginning of her recovery and we made her stop as we heard that reading is not good for her, although it did not seem to increase her low grade headache

We decided we just let her rest not pushing her to do anything.
She takes b50, b12 1000mg fish oil 2000mg magnesium 400 mg cucurmine and q10
We decided to continue with this strategy until she gets better.

We don't want to start antidepressants for headache she is vey sensitive and all meds she tried so far make her vey sleepy and absent also we worry about withdraw effect later and side effects which maybe worst than her current headache. She also wants to wait it out and dose not want to try more headaches meds. Her last app with neurologist was 4 weeks ago. I don't see the point of taking her back unless her condition will get worse or we wanted to try some more medications.

Can she read or if so for how long ? Can she watch Tv?

She is in good spirit and not anxious or depressed , just understand she needs time to heal.

I am very worry since I don't see improvement, but don't show it to her. Thinking about hbot and acupuncture , but worry that that may increase her headache and I don't have solution for it.
Do we have right strategy ?
Form what I read on this forum and on line rest and low stress is the best strategy and only thing which truly will help her recovery. Masking symptoms, which are not terrible May lead her doing more things and pay the price of set back.
Do I miss something important.
Thanks
Anna