I have also found that doctors are pretty ignorant about head injuries. Except for neurologists. As for the ibuprofen, I had heard that sort of thing before even back in 2000 when I got my first injury. So I studiously avoided any pain killer medication for at least the first few months post-injury. I have found that the *only* thing that has helped the weird sort of headaches (which were sort of like migraines except they covered my whole head) which I sensed were due to the injury, was narcotics. Luckily I had a very open minded doctor who was willing to prescribe oxycodone or percocet for the head pain and it worked. It was the only thing that did. I tried everything else, including migraine medications and they did absolutely nothing. But just try to get most doctors to prescribe narcotics for any reason. It's almost impossible. They are totally paranoid, probably at least in part due to the drug insanity of this country, with the DEA ready to pounce on them for the tiniest detail and revoke their license to practice medicine. So that keeps them paranoid. Why should they take even the most miniscule risk of losing their medical license? I mean, it's not their pain. They probably don't even know you.