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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 162
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Join Date: Jun 2010
Location: USA
Posts: 162
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I hit my head for the first time a little over 4 years ago and have had a headache 24/7 since that time. For months after each time I hit my head (I have hit it at least 4 times seriously since the original concussion) I had intense migraine symptoms which after about 4-6 months dissipate into a dull constant headache which flares at the slightest prompting. My neurologist said that medicine does not know why, but if you have a relative, even a distant one, who has migraines, it often happens that when you get a bad enough concussion, especially if you black out, the migraine gene which might have remained silent all of your life decides that it wants to attack. And then because you are suffering from the pain of the injury for a little while at first, the migraine realizes that it can be active all the time. He said that this has happened often enough that doctors are no longer surprised when it does happen, but they cannot explain it. So, my PCS has turned into a migraine, which I must say is a heck of a lot easier to explain to people and it is much easier for people to believe that I have a migraine than that I have PCS for 4 years.
Good Luck All!
Live Long and Prosper!
In Christ,
Margarite
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Fell off a horse in late winter of 2009 blacked out for a couple seconds, had amnesia for 10 hours (still don't remember this time), had 2 CT scans, 2 MRI's, 1 MRA all negative. Since the first concussion I have continually knocked my head into different things purely by accident or from being stupid. These many concussions over a short period of time have caused
constant migraines, nausea, and dizziness/lack of balance.
Migraine triggers are:
light sensitivity (especially to florescent or bright lights)
sound sensitivity (especially to high pitched or loud sounds)
temperature sensitivity (especially to cold or extreme heat)
activity (especially if breathing increases or head is jostled)
pressure on head (sinuses, hats, headbands, sunglasses, pony-tails)
lacks or quality (food, sleep, water)
tension (stress, tight muscles, tired eyes, sickness)
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