I suffered a concussion on Jan. 3rd of this year. I was trying to open my car door which was frozen shut. I was pulling on the handle when all of a sudden my feet started slipping on the ice, and then all of a sudden the door flung open and I fell back and I hit the mirror of the pickup behind me with the back of my head.
I remember seeing stars and the next thing I know I was sitting in the snow and my mom trying to help me up. I had a slight headache, little dizziness, big lump on the back of my head and I felt little nauseous. I got back in the house and laid down, but my sister's fiance said that I needed to go to Urgent Care.
The doctor there did an exam and CT Scan, she said that everything was normal and that I just had a concussion and that I should go home and rest and take tylenol for my headache, then follow-up with my regular doctor.
A couple days later I developed real bad dizziness, unsteadiness, and real bad headache. A week later when I went to see my own doctor then I developed ringing in my ears, light headedness, light and noise sensitivity and nausea. So she put me on pills for the nausea, headache and sent me over to see a neurologist that day.
The neurologist gave me some IV medicine for the headache, which helped but couple days later it came back again.
I am going to be starting physical therapy for my neck next week to see if that will help, because ever since my accident my neck has been bothering me too. I keep asking my doctor's why I'm not getting better and they now told me that I now have Post Concussion Syndrome.
I don't care if its concussion or pcs, I just want to know how long it's going to last and when will it go away. They don't have any answers for me every time I ask them, except that it takes time for a injury to the brain to heal no matter how bad the injury was. That is'nt the answer that I'm looking for.
I can't drive my car, go to the mall or Walmart, or even work at my job right now. I"m afraid to even walk down my stairs in my condo because of my dizziness and the fear of falling down them.
I'm just getting so frustrated and upset right now, and just feel so alone because I feel like my doctor's are giving up on me, because they don't know how to help me or treat me anymore.
If anyone is going through the same thing that I am or has any answers for me Please let me know!!!