[MVTBI]

Hey Everyone

Woke up this morning feeling great, well, better than usual and that is great. I think due to the weather, it is above freezing today. I feel like there is a major difference with my symptoms anyone else experience this?

To the main question, as I said I was feeling great got up got the kids going nice day etc... Sneezed really hard, as in I thought jeez that really jerked my head around and about an hour later.. having all my old visual symptoms back cant read well light sensitive cant focus and having a hard time looking up.. has anyone else had experience with this?

I was going to filter through the forum to see but as of right now not sure I should compound the visual issues.

Also yesterday had my Neuropsych I am waiting probably for a month to get the results and I will likely share what I can.. it actually felt great to use my brain, although some seemed harder than it should have.. thing is I felt great all night after too. Now this.. frustrating to say the least. Is it possible that from here on I actually have to worry about sneezing!!

Hope everyone is doing well with their recovery over the stressful holidays,

Thanks in advance for any replies

[russiarulez]

I have a similar issue as well where I have setbacks after sneezing of coughing.
The only explanation I've heard so far is that it raises the intracranial pressure messes with your ears.
Other possibilities that I came across in my research is that the intracranial pressure puts pressure on the optical nerves or it has something to do with the neck.
I'm fairly certain that the issue is not in the shaking of the head, as I usually try to support my head when I sneeze or lean it against something so it doesn't jerk, and I still get the same symptoms.
Sometimes when I cough too hard I get a very stiff neck and head pressure/headache for a day and generally feel worse.

[seabass123]

I had this as well for the first 2-3 months, sneezing and coughing even brushing my teeth lol brought on all sorts of symptoms. For me it's one of the things that's luckily subsided with time, hopefully that's the same for you MVTBI.

[MVTBI]

Thanks for the responses! Such a weird thing to happen. So many concussions before and not nearly half the symptoms I have now, I am almost accustom to everything to the point I feel normal, if that makes any sense. Its not until something "lifts" that I realise what I was dealing with or what was impeding me.

Thanks for the help

[ilikepolkadots]

I've had the same symptoms - sneeze, cough, exercise too hard, strain, even bending forward can make my vision go and bring on the symptoms.

I'm seeing an amazing ENT right now who believes my symptoms are cause by a fistula or tear/leak in my left inner ear. He also is curious if I have a CSF leak as my symptoms haven't improved despite hard work in vision and vestibular therapy and meds like huge doses of gabapentin (1800 mgs yikes!).
Everything improves if I lay flat which is why they suspect a leak or tear somewhere.

It might be good for you to get into and ENT and explain all these symptoms. It could be just an inner ear problem.

Does anything make it better after the symptoms begin from the sneeze?

[russiarulez]

I recently had the fistula surgery done on my left ear. Initially it made everything much worse, like going back to my old days going through PCS hell.

I was prescribed diuretics to reduce pressure in ears about a month after the surgery and think they're helping my overall symptoms, or at least make them more consistent/bearable.

Difference with you is that laying down doesn't make my symptoms better.