Posted by greenbean9396

Hello, I'm here today to talk about my concussion, hopefully to get some comfort of some sort, as I've been really down about it, even though it happened a year and a half ago. In 2010, in i believe was October, I was in gym class and was playing some 2-hand touch football.

By accident, one of the kids knocked me over while I had the ball, I went down, and hit the back of my head, ( the ground was frozen/cold because I live in Connecticut), but i didn't black out or anything. Anyways, about a class later, I got an excruciating migraine and went home.

For about a week, i was constantly vomiting until I went to the doctors, There the doctor and my mother found out they i slammed my head (because i didn't think that was the problem) And the doctor told us to instantly go to the Hospital and get a MRI. I got the MRI, and i had no internal bleeding, so they said i had a concussion.

At that point, I was pretty dizzy, vomiting on a daily basis, still had the migraine, constantly tired, couldn't concentrate and such. Soon after, I had a concussion head doctor person talk to me and my mother and I came back to school with a list of accommodations for my teachers.

At that point, I had stopped throwing up, but I had trouble concentrating, trouble with my speech, the ability to produce words, and still had constant headaches also my grades were lowering by a lot (A student). To this day, I'm still having those symptoms : I've had a headache since the day I had my concussion, so a year and a half just about...still have trouble with speech, ability to produce words, concentrate, it takes me 2x 3x the amount of time on homework...

And my biggest problem with this is that, With a recent 4hr test with a concussion specialist, my symptoms are getting worse, and I've noticed that too. But, with a new year of school(about halfway into it), i have even a longer accommodation list from last year, but because people can't see that I have this injury, i'm so insecure about it and want almost know one to know, and I feel like my teachers don't believe me when looking at me.

My symptoms come up in class a lot. But, lately some of my teacher haven't been following my accommodations given by the doctor, and my parents have been in the school several times about this. But...i just hate when the kids look at me and think..."WHATS WRONG WITH YOU?" you seem fine...it makes me feel..idk..

greenbean9396

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