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Who Diagnoses PCS?

I suffered two concussions last year, but it never seemed to go away. After research on WebMD and other websites (before I found this one), I diagnosed myself with the syndrome. Do general doctors make these kinds of decisions? Or is it a self-evaluation like I did?

My experience is that you need to see a neurologist for proper testing and diagnosis.

Hi and welcome to NeuroTalk. PCS is problematic for doctors to diagnose medically since mTBI will often not show up on a CT or MRI. I agree with Shez, a neurologist would be best; I'd inquire whether they do a lot with work with mTBI patients, as there has been varying degrees of satisfaction from NT members in regards to diagnosis and treatment from neurologists.

Tell us a little bit more on which symptoms are presenting, and we can better support your question based on the collective experiences of the forum contributors.

Meanwhile hopefully this link will be helpful.

http://www.brainline.org/landing_pag...iagnosing.html

Best to you.

Neurologist /movement disorder specialist

Hi,
I went undiagnosed for years. I was going to a pain specialist for years for chronic pain and migraine headaches. I kept mentioning these other problems and the fact that I had passed out and hit my head and have had at least 5 concussions before being in the MVA that disabled me totally. It was not until I went to a neurologist / movement disorder specialist that I got a full diagnosis.
Yes I have chronic pain but it is presenting in my body in this way because of the traumatic brain injury / post concussive syndrome. I am in the middle of having neuropsychological testing done which should give me more information and help on what kind of treatment would be beneficial to me at this point. I also had an MRI recently which does show some problems. I understand that the MRI does not always show any problems. I would definately go to a neurologist.
These are neurological symptoms that we have and that is the kind of specialist diagnoses the problem.
Good luck. Hope you get feeling better soon.
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