Hey, my names Matthew and I just want to explain my story briefly.

I use to be involved with a lot of sports: football, soccer, hockey, boxing. I'd always get hit in the head with no problem at all but on April 8th 2014, I got a knee to the head in a hockey game and I could literally feel my brain shake in my head. I had a persisting headache, sensitivity to light and noise, I couldn't shake my head and I just wouldn't feel right. I was diagnosed with a mild concussion and I was out of school for 6 weeks and my overall academic average dropped 7%. My symptoms weren't as bad as some of the other people on this forum but it was still a pain.

By the beginning of May I felt perfectly fine, got back into soccer but then I header'd the ball in soccer and all my symptoms came back but only for about 10 days and then I was fine. Ever since then, whenever I get blows to the head that wouldn't have normally affected me before April 2014 (friendly slaps to the head, bumping my head on a cabinet, light elbows to the head in basketball just to name a couple...) I feel the concussion symptoms I previously had for roughly a week and a half. I'm 3 months away from graduating high school, I've already been accepted to university but I can't live the life I use to and I feel like a shell of my former self. I can't engage in the sports that I use to love playing, I can't even focus on bodybuilding or overall fitness because I can't go a month without getting in the head so I can't make consistent gains.

Why I'm here is because it's been 11 months and I've seen numerous doctors (Pediatricians, Physicians, Sports Medicine Specialists) but all they recommended to me was to rest up and avoid getting in the head. Obviously that is helpful but I've read numerous stories here with people with similar situations to me. How can I reduce this hyper-sensitivity to my head so I can live the life I use to be able to?