Hi, you came to a good place to learn about your condition and get some valuable insight.


Signs and symptoms of concussion can be delayed and can take hours to days to become apparent. Symptoms showing 2 days after hitting your head are thought to still be due to concussion, rather than post concussion syndrome.

Being only 12 days in, you still have plenty of time to recover with use of appropriate rest. Post concussion syndrome can persistently last months to years, but being still early on in your recovery, please don't become used to the idea that you have PCS or expect to have PCS because it is likely that you will improve.

You need to prevent yourself as much anxiety as possible, this will only make your recovery harder. You still have a good time frame to let your brain heal as much as possible, which means not going back to work yet and limiting/avoiding auditory and sensory stimulation as much as you can.

The neurologist is not saying your speech issues are all in your head. She's proposing that they are still organic in nature and that she is hopeful they will get better as you heal.

You need to give yourself as much cognitive rest as possible. I suggest you go to a GP who can write out a doctor's certificate for you for more time off work. Remember, no matter how much rest you get, your symptoms can relapse or get worse if you put yourself under any amount of stress, so make sure to grant yourself some more time off. Friday is far too soon.

- Yours.