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Join Date: Apr 2014
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Join Date: Apr 2014
Posts: 214
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It just seems to me that slight neck strain and startle wouldn't persist for months and cause a relapse in other visual symptoms as well, especially when emotionally I feel like I bounced back fairly quickly relative to other bumps I've had. It was a heavy water balloon, and my head hit it pretty fast. I get that it sounds ridiculous, and most of me believes it is ridiculous, but my subjective experience suggests that maybe something else happened.
The headache where he tapped is a little worse today, but not too bad, so that's good. It did feel like a pretty hard tap, but I'm doing a decent job not getting too caught up in negative thinking. I'm so frustrated by these practitioners who aren't careful when I'm literally putting my head into their hands!
The NUCCA chiro doesn't really do much below C-1/C-2. I've just started seeing another chiropractor, not for adjustments, but for active release massage, initially just for my running-related hamstring injury that predates the concussion, but he found somethings in the neck/shoulders he thinks he can help. I'm somewhat hopeful, he did a better job explaining and showing all the various things wrong with my body than any other practitioner I've talked to.
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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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