Glad to hear you feel better again. I'm using your thread to tell my story because I'm also "yet another PCS sufferer", because talking and sharing experience is helpful and because I'm currently also looking for "ideas" on how to deal with my current situation.

It started in November 2012 when I got a hit towards my head during ice hockey. I was NOT unconscious but I felt quite some pressure in my head. Because it didn't disappear after a few days, I went to the medic and he said it's "just a contusion toward the head". He never said it's a concussion. So it was like "half a week no sports and if symptoms are gone, you can start again".

"Symptoms gone" was relative to me at this time. So I didn't want to miss the next season game on Tuesday (hit was on Saturday) and played the game. Looking back at it, it really was a bad idea BUT the medic also should have warned me a lot more. Anyway, in the night after the game, I had to vomit and it now probably really was a concussion. I for sure did not rest enough and it was an up and down for quite a while. I stuck on the "Return to Play" plan afterwards but again, "some pressure" didn't feel like symptoms. I didn't feel dizzy. However, my reaction was "worse" and when I tried a practice again 3 weeks later, I had a collision with another player (my front head/helmet to his back head/helmet). It felt like an electronic shock going through my brain. The next couple of days, I had to lie in bed (TV was way too much, over-sensitive for sounds and things like this). From then on, it was a constant battle to train my brain again to get used to liabilty. It was no problem to watch TV again and to work after a while, but a high heart rate (sports) was still a problem. After a year, I was still not able to play hockey even though I tried a lot of things (Osteopathy, Cranio Sacral). The thing that really helped me was when a friend of mine (who also had a concussion) told me that injury from the concussion has healed and that I simply have to strain the head again. So I just started to play again without think "Oh my god, hopefully my heart rate wasn't to high/hopefully I won't wake up in the middle of the night" or whatever. After 1,5 years, I felt normal again and I was able to play.

However, end of August 2015, I was tripped in ice hockey and I felt onto the cage of my helmet. It wasn't a hard touch but when I drove home, I noticed "the head doesn't feel normal again". Having had the experience from my last concussion, it was obviously that I called in sick in the office. I stayed in bed for 3 days, calm. After a week, the symptoms were gone and I started with light fitness (10 min indoor cycle, light weights) again. It always took me around a week to reach the next step. After 7 weeks, I was back to normal again.

Then, on December 12th, 2015, I had another season game. While scoring a goal, I was tripped by the goali and I felt out of the turn onto my pants. I didn't think anything about it, but players were asking me if I feel ok about my head. You can imagine...symptoms started a couple of minutes later and some hours later, I had glassy eyes and I felt like I need to go to bed. Symptoms were gone after 4 days, but it took me another 7 months to be able to do full sports again. At this time, it was clear to me that I need to stop playing ice hockey.

During summer (July 16), I went playing roller hockey. Less speed, no contact, playing as a defender to stay out of trouble. But again, when I saw the puck laying free aside the already beaten goali, I simply had to go for it. But the goalkeeper didnt' see me, made a movement with his leg and he hit my skates. This resultet in doing a somersault. I landed on my arms. A few minutes later, I noticed that I need to stop playing. Glassy eyes again and I felt like "in a different movie". Obviously another concussion (or PCS).

I simply had to admit that my brain doesn't suffer "hits" in any way. Symptoms were gone after 9 days, but you know the story - again a long way until I was able to suffer a high heart rate.

But things went worse after that. In October 2016, I only felt on my left knee. Again, the symptoms (glassy eyes, pressure, headache). Took me 11 days to get rid of the symptoms (but I didn't call in sick this time). I anyway always tried to keep the positive thinking which seems very important. I knew from the past that the symptoms go away again even though it's very frustrating and annoying to start from zero (I really like to do sports).

February 2017, something "new". I had to do an emergency brake in my car at the cross-roads. But I was already at very low speed, maybe 15 km/h. After that, I started to feel my head again. I told myself "no, this is no concussion. Nothing happened" (maybe it's sort of a whiplahs) but I've got the symptoms again. I even had to lie down again in the after-noon. I had symptoms for about 18 days.

Another 6 weeks later (March, 18th 2017), I braked normally in my car, but my brain probably thought "that's too much". So I lift the foot and pressed the brake again, most probably resulting in a short jerky movement. That's when I decided to go to the medic again. It's just no fun like this and I feel very limited now. The first day I took the train to work, but the braking and shaking in there also felt like "danger". The first couple of days I probably felt depressive and there was sort of a fear.

The medic said "PCS" (never heard of that before) - and of course "it's difficult to cure". Now it's said "Osteopahty again to bring back trust in your body" or another thing could be going to a psychologist or doing acupuncture.

Anyway, the symptoms seemed to have gone mid of April and I started yet again with 10 minutes of indoor cycle. So it seemed to go up again. Yesterday then, after driving to the office, I suddenly noticed that I'm starting to feel bad again (slightly glassy eyes, pressure...). Until today, I have no clue if it was because of braking in the car (but I didn't notice anything when I braked - normally I notice it right at the incident) or if it was because I did some (very light) weight lifting the day before. Of course, it was a psychological stress. You start to think if you should not drive the car anymore and things like this. But I have to unless I'd move clsoe to the office. But it's no real solution because living in anxiety isn't the key. Before, it was frustrating but "no big deal". I knew it will get better and I also knew "I should not take a hard impact". But now, slight impact start the PCS. Today, I feel better again, but still some pressure. So maybe it really was due to the weight lifting. But it simply feels like my brain doesn't come to a rest anymore. As soon as I'm at the next step up, I get another fall-back. Having had 5 concussions (or PCS) within 15 months is an anxious development.

So now I found this site and I simply thought it might be worth sharing my thoughts with other people. With every new fall-back, things seem to get worse and sometimes I just feel like "I'm not myself anymore". So I really need a way to get out of this downward spiral.

Sorry for the long story and thanks for reading. Hopefully somebody can lead me the way to get out of this. Life quality simply decreased a lot. In my case, time would also be the cure, BUT only if I wouldn't have a fall-back all the time again.