Hey everyone, just found this forum, read through half a dozen threads (including stickies).

In the last week of July this year I hit my head and was knocked out unconscious for an unknown amount of time. I hit my head in the the top front left area, just a few cm between the frontal and parietal section and about 1.5 cm above my temporal section. I'm not sure how long I was out on the ground, likely only a few minutes or less; no one was around at the time. I suspect I suffered a double concussion from the fall backwards in addition to my brain bouncing from the front to the back after suddenly stopping.

The day of my injury I struggled to write, remember who I was, and other common things that were generally easy to remember for the next 5 hours or so. Prior going to the walk-in clinic the same day, I continued with my work appointments. At the next work appointment I attended, I struggled to keep my balance and fell into the wall several times, slightly hitting my head a second time, although not that hard. I went to the walk in clinic and struggled to remember my name, address, etc. when filling in the new patient form. For the next day and a half I had a slight head ache, but that was it, or so I thought.

Over the following weekend from my injury (injury occurred on a Thursday, went to work on Friday) my head aches started to get worse. I struggled to text message or dial a phone because my hands were shaking and I kept pressing the wrong keys. I started to feel irritable, things seemed blurry, and I couldn't focus or concentrate. Anything that required any sort of brain strategizing or planning made my head want to blow up (tried playing cards). When ever I used a computer, my head hurt. The next coming days, it got so bad that anything moving on two different planes at the same time gave me head aches (i.e. one object moving front to back and another object left to right both within my sight); any light brighter than a candle gave me huge head aches. I couldn't drive, I couldn't use a computer, all these things gave me head aches to the point of wanting to vomit. I had a constant ringing in my ears. I put myself in a dark room and hid from light.

About day 4 I started feeling very emotional, and on day 5 I remember feeling very emotional, very fearful, upset, as if I was living the last moments of my life. My girlfriend had visited me, and when she left, I broke down in tears because I had this weird emotional feeling as if I was going to die and I just saw her for the last time - this is definitely not how I normally feel, prior to injury I was an emotionally stable person. I called my parents, who drove down and took me to the ER the next morning. The doctor there said to take some time off work and follow up with my family physician.

Then the nightmares started, for the first week I had no dreams at all (day 1 to 7 approximately) however I slept 13-16 hours a day, usually 11-12 hours each night then 2-4 hours during the day during naps. Then around day 7 the nightmares started. I don't usually have nightmares, or at least not ones I remember, more than once a month, if not once every few months. Nonetheless, every night, since day 7 I've had nightmares. They range from death, destruction, planetary annihilation, people screaming at me non stop, my family screaming at me, a lot of the time everyone around me dies in my dreams. Once again, this is not something I normally dream of.

Anyway, I'll stop my wall of text in the next few sentences. I still get severe head aches and it has been one month + one week since I hit my head. I've had a CT scan and it showed normal but my short term memory since I hit my head is garbage and it is frustrating as hell. My girlfriend could tell me she's on her way home from university, then an hour later I'll send her a message asking if she's still at school. It is becoming extremely frustrating because ppl will tell me things and in the next 45 minutes I'll forget, or it will take me a lot of effort to remember, and this is happening all the time - previously ppl would say I have a good memory because I would remember little details such as what someone was wearing, colour of shoes, etc etc days later.

Is my brain screwed? Can I make a full recovery? I haven't been back to work since, work stress also triggers these head aches when previously I would have head aches a few times a year. I was a fit, healthy, 28 year old, and had great health up until I hit my head.