Future hits
 

Hi all,

Fist of all, hi and thanks to everyone on this site for their contributions - those answering the questions helped a lot with my PCS, and those asking them helped me realise I'm not going mad, or making all this up!

This forum is a really useful resource which I'm sure helps a lot of people who find their questions answered without having to comment, as well as it's visible users. It can be such a bizarre condition (eg my symptoms didn't fully emerge until a week after the concussion, I thought I was going mad till I saw on this site that that can happen a lot).

So all my questions about my current condition seem to be answered on other threads at the moment, but I wanted to ask something about the future;

I'd say I've had around 10 concussions in my life, mostly sport related (yeah, that sounds stupid when I write it down). Although I tend to have moderately serious amnesia for a while it has always cleared up in a day or two.

This last one however has given me all those symptoms so well documented in this forum (7 1/2 weeks now) and I wanted to ask whether in people's experience future concussions will now always give me PCS or whether I might go back to getting away with a day of forgetfulness (I preferred it that way!). Once you get PCS once does it then happen every time?

Suffice to say contact sport or indeed any other activity with a remote chance of a head injury are now permanently off the menu, I loved my soccer but this whole experience has been far too horrible to risk repeating. Hopefully my question will be irrelevant as it won't happen again but you never know - would be good to be prepared. I do seem to be getting better, slowly and a bit up and down but am fairly confident I'll get out of this one reasonably unscathed in time.

All the best to you all

I think your question is not worthy of an answer. Nobody can predict how your next concussion will effect you. Since you have survived ten or so concussions, count your blessing and get on with your life. I stopped all contact or risk sports when I was 16. Since then, I have suffered another ten concussions or sub-concussive impacts to my head.

The brain become very sensitive as the PCS survivor ages. Each impact will become more damaging even when they are of a lesser intensity. I can suffer concussion problems now from shaking my head "No." I have taught myself to not shake or even turn my head quickly.

Your brain is speaking to you in loud and clear terms. NO MORE IMPACTS.

Glad to see you are listening to your brain.

Ok sorry if that was a stupid question, just trying to learn more about how this might affect me in the future, I never even heard of PCS till I got it

need to focus on getting better in the here and now anyway

If your brain was a computer that you could never repair would you continue to kick it? I am like Mark who knows. NOTHING IS WORTH THE RISK!

yes, you probably will, and the more you get the worse the reaction could be and the longer lasting. It can also lead to lots of problems when you get older. Just google concussions and football and there is tons of new data coming out.
I don't know about you but I like life and I like at least appearing healthy to those around me. I don't want to keep getting worse or get old and suffer terribly because of my young stupidity. Life is good, why ruin it with unnecessary suffering?