[Klaus]

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