Thanks for the responses. I have a general question about all these bump-induced setbacks - is it just my anxiety, or do these bumps acutally cause some (likely minimal) damage, and if they do, is there a cumulative effect of them? Cumulatively I've had 6 or 7 of these jolts/head bumps over the course of the past 6 months (my anniversary is tomorrow...). I understand that these don't constitute a concussion if they aren't accompanied by immediate new symptoms (other than a headache). None of the bumps have done this, except for some dizziness when lying down and closing my eyes (which continues) about an hour after bumping my head on the ceiling in June.

I understand that likely for most of these it's my anxiety about them, rather than the bump itself, that's holding me back. My concussion specialist told me that I likely am more susceptible to injury, and these bumps/jolts might be causing some physiological damage/response, but it's not permanent.

I'm not super anxious about this most recent slip on the stairs, just really down about it because I had a string of good days. I haven't really had an increase in headaches from it, but screen time and reading seem to cause a headache/frazzled out feeling sooner than they were before the slip, and I generally feel more tired and slowed down, and bouts of dizziness when lying down seem to be longer than they were before too.