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Old 10-27-2016, 01:28 PM
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Default Potential Subconcussive Impact with Symptoms?

Hey all,

So I've only ever had one diagnosed concussion, but I've had anxiety related to concussions and brain health for a while, so I'm on a vitamin regiment and am very protective of my brain.

That being said, I had an incident yesterday that I don't think could possible qualify as a concussion, but I experienced symptoms, and I'm concerned whether they could indicate a concussion even with the low impact forces.

Basically what happened is that I was doing sit ups on a hardwood floor. My hands were behind my head, and as I was finishing up, I misjudged the location of my head relative to the floor, and thumped my head. Now I wasn't moving fast, probably at a rate of about 1 or 2 feet per second. Also, because my hands were behind my head, the impact wasn't direct, my fingers hit the ground, and my head stopped with my fingers. So all in all, the forces involved were not large at all. I've read that concussions need 60Gs of force, and I don't think I was close to that threshold.

However, I'm worried because I began to feel nauseous a few minutes later. Now I don't know if the nausea was from anxiety or the impact, so I'm wondering is it even possible for an impact of such low force to produce symptoms? And now this morning I've felt foggy, and again, I'm not sure if anxiety or the impact is to blame...

I'm just curious if this sounds like a case of my anxiety getting the better of me or if it sounds like physical effects of the impact?
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