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Originally Posted by Bright&Dark86
Mark,
Please do not make this thread about something that it is not. I am here to discuss TBI and PCS, not how I do my job.
That being said, I'd like to talk about my symptoms over the past couple of days. They seem to have varied greatly from Monday and Tuesday to today. I know stress has something to do with it. Monday was a pretty low key day but I felt horrible as I mentioned in a previous post. Yesterday I was super busy and my stress level was high. I ended up having a bad headache and mild nausea for about 11 hours straight. I feel like maybe the weather played a part as well. It was so humid and warm that I wonder if that added to the pain. Today was better though. Less humidity and less stress. I still got a headache about half way through the day and it stayed with me but it was mild in comparison to yesterday and Monday. The only new thing I noticed today was that I've started seeing flashing lights again, every time I blink. That's been coming and going though. Does anyone else have this symptom? I saw flashing lights a lot after the concussion I had in August.
I'd really love to just take a sick day and rest since I haven't been able to do that, but we're understaffed again and it never seems like the right time. Maybe next week.
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Hey Bright&Dark. I've been lurking on this site for awhile and just decided to make an account, because so many different descriptions of symptoms resonate with me. I too experience the serious, stress-induced up-and-downs of the headaches, fatigue, and other PCS symptoms. Like Xandar, I worry constantly about bumping my head, even going so far as to always stand up on public transportation (because of the jolts up and down) and constantly be aware of my surroundings and potential risks. Anyways, I would just like to offer my $.02--I truly don't think that any of us hit our heads any more than normal people, we just clue into it so much more. Our threshold for realizing our heads have been bumped becomes so low that EVERYTHING is a sub-concussive impact. I'm not sure how much of this is recovery-induced sensitivity and how much has to do with anxiety, but I've just come to accept that head bumps are a fact of life. I still try to prevent them, but try really hard to take it in stride, even though I just want to scream and destroy things every time it happens.
Not sure if any of that helps, but you're definitely not alone.