New poster. Scary story
 

Hi. I'm a new poster here. is there a restriction on what I'm allowed to talk about? I want to share how I got my concussion but it's a weird story and I was worried I had two concussions before the first one recovered but I had a negative CT scan so I hope that's a good sign. It will have been 3 months on the 13th of this month. I still have some vision floaters that get worse with anxiety. Eye doctor said eyes were fine and I wouldn't need glasses told him I saw blue floaters and flashing lights. They did a retina scan and said they weren't damaged. I get angry and hit walls sometime since that doctor visit when I think about everything. Notice a few more floaters and sometimes when I close my eyes I see red but that's only happened once and it might have been from a light I was looking at. I hope I get better :( My head aches aren't that bad. Sometimes stress will trigger them but they go away when I don't focus on them. Still sensitive to motion. To much motion causes a tension head ache. They aren't too intense though but I can't exercise or nothing. I had another concussion in my life six years ago but it was mild and I didn't have these symptoms. My dad has actually had 5 concussions but he's almost fifty and doesn't have any problems. Hopefully I'll be ok.

Oh my goodness, you have been through a lot. And your dad has had 5 concussions?

Hello KellyRoberson28: Welcome to NeuroTalk! I'm still new here too! (I'm a more active member on NeuroTalk's sister website: PsychCentral.) I've never been diagnosed as having had concussions. But I'm quite certain I've had a few. I'm an older person & for many years of my life, the seriousness of concussions was not recognized. I've had the floaters you mention. Plus I've also had a detached retina that had to be repaired with a laser. I also have tinnitus (ringing in the ears.) Yes, anger & anxiety certainly can aggravate these sorts of conditions. They do for me. I struggle with both anger & anxiety as well as depression.

After I had my detached retina repaired, the doctor old me I should have my eyes checked once a year in case some additional trouble developed. Thankfully it hasn't. I'm glad, your retinas are intact. Hopefully that will continue to be the case. But you may want to continue to have your eyes checked periodically to make sure everything continues to be okay. I can't say if what you are seeing will go away over time. I still have floaters. And I see little black speckles when I look up at the sky. But, then, I'm an older person. So that may be part of it for me. I wish you well... :hug: :)

Thanks for the replies everyone. Would be happy to see some more tips. The doctor actually said it was a possible concussion but the effects sure feel like one. I still have anger fits where my head will shake sometimes uncontrollable. I hope that doesn't do anything but I've managed to keep the wall hitting and other stuff where I used to break stuff down....I don't do that anymore. I just hope the anger head twitches don't do anything.

Welcome,
We do have a TBI/PCS forum if you haven't found it yet, here is the link to it -
http://www.neurotalk.org/forum92/

has ur neuro ruled these out?
 

occipital neuralgia-easy 30 seconds of fingertip testing sensitivity of areas around the vertabrate of your neck. (I did not know of mine until a neuro actually tested me for it...appx. 21 months after my injury.

search: occipital nerve...and see if any of your symptoms make more sense.

Test to see if your elevated heart rate causing symptoms is the real catalyst or not. Wall squat wearing a hr monitor, then maybe do stationary squats. see if a similiar outcome with similiar heart rates. It took me over a year before hr started to not be as much as a catalyst as it once was. I had diffficulty trying to get above 115 bpm for the first 9 months. some things just take time.

As time passes, if you find yourself having issue with impact vibrations, you may now also suffer from a condition called Intracranial hypotension.

Around our brains we have a fluid called cerebrospinal fluid that works like a cushion for our brains. Sometimes if a person hurts his neck, back or cranium he/she can get a tear in the dura (sack) that contains this cerebrospinal fluid and it can start to leak. This will cause less volume of fluid around his/her brain and lower than normal pressure inside the cranium. This in turn will make the brain more sensitive to vibrations or impacts.

You can check if you are suffering from intracranial hypotension by holding your breath and increase your abdominal pressure (this increases your intracranial pressure momentarily), while you drive over a bump. If this maneuver helps you take the bump, then you know that you are suffering from too low intracranial pressure.

and do not give up. I am 28 months since my injury...and still a long ways to go.

You typically diagnose this with a MRI with contrast of your skull.
It is treatable, but it will typically not go away without treatment.