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I am 3 months post concussion. I was hit in the head by a baseball at my sons baseball game....

3 months later I still am having difficulties returning to exercise. I went to the neuro 2 days after being hit because my husband did not think it was a big deal... Little did we know I had sustained a concussion. I had an MRI of head, MRI of neck, VNG, sonogram of arteries to head and thru neck... Ears checked.. EEG the whole 9 yards...

Concluded That I was fine except for the post concussion.... Symptoms at the time were: Headache, noise sensitivity, inability to concentrate, foggy head, inability to tolerate annoying people (lol)sore neck, strained eye sight (in one eye) chronic fatigue...and very moody... And major sleeping disturbances.. Meaning stay up late sleep during day... I try to sleep at night but I feel like I cant get into a deep sleep... I don't know if it because I have anxiety that I may have brain bleeding or a blood clot and the Dr.'s missed it... Irrational thought I know.

A majority of my symptoms have decreased other than my anxiety and inability to tolerate exercise... which may very well go hand and hand for me..
Before the accident I was a gym junkie.. 6 days per week with out fail... Doing abnormally high impact exercise... to nothing is horrible for me...

I have gained 12 lbs and am trying to lose it but without exercise well... its kind of hard... I have tried to increase exercise and I am fine while doing it... but later on wow..... Fatigue... anxiety...neck pain...headache head feels tight and numb and a horrible night sleep leading me into sleeping in the whole next day... Example: I took a yoga class... did fine doing it.. felt great.. Later that night I felt like I did not sleep alright... The next morning I was exhausted and went back into bed for 5 more hours getting out of bed at 12PM.... Mind you I have never ever ever slept in unless I was deathly ill... the week before I went on the EFX machine did it for 40 mint... barely broke a sweat... same thing that night sleeplessness = sleeping the whole next day... Tight head feeling, being strangled by the back of the neck pain...horrible horrible neck pain...

Went to a new neuro for a second opinion and he suggest I go for a Psy. evaluation and wanted me to talk Zoloft..... I left there feeling worse than before... Look I get I maybe alittle depressed considering my drastic life style change of course I am upset... But a Psy evaluation .. My sleep all day is not because I am depressed. believe me I am physically exhausted ... Did I over do it doing those mundane exercises .. How about they check if something maybe going wrong with the initial problem my head..Maybe my exercise is exasperating it.... I dunno ...

But I refused to Zoloft ... I can not take it... I am so afraid of those type of drugs.... I think that would make my anxiety worse..... Any advice would help tremendously.... I know there is a lot to digest here...Sorry for its length...Do you think acupuncture would help... Oh and one more weird thing... My hair is thinning out... I have always had abnormally thick hair and it beginning to get thinner... oh and another strange thing... I randomly get freezing cold all over my body.... strange right..