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Join Date: Apr 2014
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I experienced something sort of similar recently while biking. I've recently upped my excercise considerably, from 45 minutes on a stationary bike, to up to 90 minutes biking outside on a road bike. I used to be a big runner (ran xc and track in HS, college, and post-collegiately until a hamstring injury about 6 months before the concussion) and it has felt amazing to move through space fast again, and exercise outside.
When I first started biking, I'd be really careful and focus on how I'd feel a bump in my head. But after a while, and as a ride progresses, I sort of get in a happy zone of being in the moment, still being careful to not hit big potholes, but just enjoying exercising, and I don't feel the bumps as much as I did early on.
So yeah, I think a lot of it is probably in our heads.
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26 year-old PhD student in evolutionary biology, slipped on ice in Feb 2014 while clipping my fingernails and walking to save time (dumbest reason for PCS ever?). Initially just had headaches and didn't feel quite right, but a minor head bump 5 days later started a downward spiral of anxiety, depression, insomnia and fatigue. Had trouble concentrating on reading/looking at screens
April 2014 - did exertion test, passed, started exercising and doing more, but didn't feel much better.
May 2014 - Went on backpacking trip OK'd by doctor, trip itself went fine, but felt worse a few days after getting back, more difficulty concentrating, worse headaches.
June 2014 - Bumped head on ceiling walking slowly down stairs, no immediate symptoms, but caused worsening headahces, more difficulty concentrating and looking at screens. Have not felt as good as I did before this since this bump.
December 2014 - after feeling relatively better I went xc skiing and fell but didn't hit my head (something my psychologist who specializes in brain injuries told me he hoped would happen so I saw it was OK), felt worse
Feb 2015 - back in grad school, light teaching load and some research, nowhere close to operating at my full capacity. Still have constant headaches, difficulty reading/looking at screens, mild anxiety and depression, and just not feeling like my normal sharp self.
Trying, but struggling, to believe that I'll get back to my old self, or at least get close.
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