I would guess you're sitting in my boat and we're both floating down poopy creek with nary a paddle between us.

I was diagnosed a little over a year ago with TBI from multiple concussions. The Neurologist figures I've had between 12-15 in my lifetime.

In all my reading on the subject, there seems to be a consensus that each concussion, no matter how inconsequential, does damage to the brain. The good news is that with proper care and plenty of non-brain activity rest, most people will recover as the brain has ways of re-routing signals. Some people, however, have a lifetime of minor symptoms from just one.

Unfortunately, once you get to about the 3rd, your brain starts to lose the ability to re-route. At some point, the symptoms do become more permanent.

I read a study about an MRI technique called DTI. This imaging tracks the movement of the brain fluid or white matter. The testing is still in a research mode but the conclusion of one particular study I read talked about people, like me and you, with multiple concussions, having recurring symptoms. Meaning that symptoms will vary and will come and go.

For me, last year, my memory was so bad that my wife would cry because I had no memory of a trip we had taken the year before. We spent one entire week in So California in a condo right on the beach. No matter what she said to help me remember, my mind could not reach back and find a memory.

Well, my memory is much better now but other symptoms that I have had before are back. Dizziness, balance issues, headaches, etc. that were much more mild are back.

The study indicated that the white matter will actually move about the affected areas of the brain and help restore some of the damaged functions. But at some point, it will move to a different damaged area causing a different symptom to get better but the other symptoms will return.

I hope I'm making sense. I read the article online and haven't been able to find it since. I was looking again tonight when I came across this forum. If I find the link, I'll post it.

Good luck.