Welcome rreihart.

Thank you for the replies. I am trying to remain calm and relaxed. Second CT is complete and I'm hoping to hear something tomorrow.

Good luck rreihart.

I also had a heavey CSF leak at time of injury, out of my ear. Since then I've had a trickle that is sometimes stronger than other times. I've also had a scab out out twice in this time: which at first relieved the pressure in my head then made it a whole lot worse.

Your lucky to be seen so fast, although I was given antibiotics as a chest infection settled in after injury I've not had further testing yet.

I'm dubious about tests that look for fluid. After my ovaries were rupturing regularily I'd have tests done. They'd find extra fluid and shrug it off even though it meant I was bleeding internally. Did you have one with the dye? As a CT scan is mostly an xray of skull ect.

I'm sorry you've had to wait so long. I thought it was taking too long for me, but now I see I am fortunate.

I did not have a CT with dye, it wasn't ordered that way. I think the point right now is to check for any skull base fractures and look at my sinuses.

Thanks for the reply.

Wednesday evening I started feeling weakness in my left leg. Sort of like it was going to sleep, but different. When I got up and moved around it felt better. But, I was getting upset. I was still having the salty tasting, watery post-nasal drip as well.

Yesterday, I woke up at 4 AM feeling nauseous, weak and cold. When I checked my temperature, it was only 95.7 and that was rising from bed covered up and wearing clothes. I got a little freaked out and had my wife take me to the ER, fearing something was wrong.

The ER doc basically said nothing was wrong and suggested I try Claritin or Zyrtec for the PND. Diagnosed as post-concussion syndrome.

I went home and took a Claritin and went back to bed. As the day went on, I did feel better. The weakness was better and the Claritin greatly reduced the PND.

This morning, I've felt similar to yesterday. I woke up early (about 4:30 AM) and wasn't as nauseous, but was a little light headed and the salty PND was returning. Feeling a little weak in the legs too.

I went to work today, but remain frustrated. I'm going to move around as much as possible and see if that helps.

I had trouble with this as well for months rreihart, I was waking up with headaches and dizziness in the middle of the night, wasn't able to fall asleep after getting up. I found that it was partially due to lower blood sugar from fasting all night during sleep. I'm almost convinced that one of the symptoms of concussion is extreme sensitivity to lower blood sugar since I never had anything like this before getting my concussion.

What's worked for me is eating yogurt or a small piece of chocolate when I wake up feeling like this in the morning or in the middle of the night. Might be something that might help tone down the severity of your symptoms

How come you had a second CT scan and not an MRI? I don't understand why doctors dismiss the idea of CF leaks out of hand without seeming to investigate them. Changes in CF pressure can make you feel nauseas as spinal tap patients feel it. With plenty of rest things will stabilise I'm sure.