Update after my concussion 3.5 months ago
 

Hi everyone,

Thought I'd sign in and give you all an update after my concussion that I had 3 and a half months ago at a party when I got rugby tackled whilst drunk.

In my first post, I mentioned that the doctors had drugged me up on anti anxiety and anti depressant medications because they diagnosed me with anxiety and depression, well I have never believed this and I took those drugs for 1 month and they made no difference what so ever, they didn't even take the edge off of my symptoms.

So to me that proves that I do not have an anxiety or depression disorder, also before this party where I got the concussion, I have never suffered from anxiety or depression in my life, just a little OCD.

Also I had a CT scan which was normal, so they said it couldn't be a concussion, well that's rubbish, concussions don't show in scans and the only thing that was different at the party where I drank alcohol was I got rugby tackled, I had drank alcohol about 5 times before and never had these kind of symptoms, so to me it has to be post concussion syndrome that I have now.



Well here I am now 3 and a half months down the line, I havn't took my anxiety or depression medication for 2 days now, and I must say I feel better for it, the headaches seems to have gone now by about 50%.

What I am left with now is this strange kind of confusion, its like I ask myself what has happened these past 3 months, and to be honest I don't even know. It's like my body has been on some kind of auto pilot, it has functioned without me being here, it's like the past 3 months I have been in some kind of dream state, it's all just a blur.

Even now I still don't feel my normal self, I feel very confused, maybe like a mental fog, and I'm having these non stop eye floaters, when I'm indoors I never see them, but as soon as I got outside and look at the sky, my vision is full of floaters. Also I still have these headaches / migraines but they are nowhere near as bad but always constantly there.

So basically the symptoms I still have are:

Eye floaters when outside
A strange kind of confusion like my body is still in auto pilot
Headaches / migraines
Short term memory problems and even some long term memory problems

The number 1 symptom which I hate is the confusion feeling. I feel like each second is hard to live, I can't relax in front of TV or with friends.

I just still don't feel like before.

The way I look at it, is all my symptoms came on progressively weeks after the concussion. It hasn't got any worse, but it has got a little bit better.

So I think I'm still in this for at least another 2-3 months but who knows, lol.

Thanks for everyones help and reading this :)

The floaters are real but not new. Your concussion has left your brain unable to ignore or filter out things like eye floaters. It would normally be considered an anxiety disorder. They have always been there just now you see them and can't get your mind to ignore them.

The same problem is common with tinnitus. The tinnitus make be new but to make it much worse, the brain can not ignore or filter out the sound sensation.

You need an extended period of quiet rest. Quiet rest is the only known therapy for the cognitive and memory based symptoms. It will also help with the head aches.