After 4 months, the symptoms that I'm dealing with are headaches, generally daily for the majority of the day. I've had headaches of differing severity since day one of the concussion. They tried Tylenol w/ codeine in the hospital, then elevated to dilaudid and ibuprofen. After twelve days inpatient, they sent me home with a script for those and told me to follow with my GP. After a follow up at 3 1/2 weeks with the neurologist that treated me inpatient, I was referred to a concussion specialist neurologist. He stopped those drugs and told me to take just Tylenol and prescribed Depakote as a prophylactic for the headaches. I did two runs of prednisone of increasing dosages. Neuro was concerned about "rebound" headaches fron so much pain killers. They helped somewhat at the start, but didn't last. He then prescribed Tramadol and amiltrityline. He then told me he thought the rebound headaches were the true cause. I haven't taken any pain killers of any kind for over a month. I have headaches everyday. Generally severity increases the more I try to do. Sometimes they get worse for seemingly no reason.
I also have focus / concentration problems, short term memory problems, am easily distracted and can't seem to complete tasks. I get easily irritated and my emotions are not always as controlled as I would like. I have sensitivity to bright light and get easily overwhelmed by too much information or crowds.