Hi

Name's JayB and I'm fairly new to this forum. Been lurking here for about two weeks and decided to join up.

Little background story:

I had a thaiboxing fight in Thailand the 23rd of December without training. I train sometimes, but not at pro level and usually don't do this, but I was pretty drunk and decided to take a fight against a local guy. Both of us had headgear on and heavy gloves, but I still got my butt whooped and after the fight I felt terrible right away. I didn't lose consciousness but afterwards I was dizzy, nauseous had foggy vision, a blank stare and a massive headache which lasted for 3 weeks. Went to the doctor right away and after doing the whole follow-the-finger thing, she said I had not infact gotten a concussion, claiming that getting a concussion means going unconscious, not being able to control vomiting and being hard to wake up.

Anyway my symptoms started to fade away during the day, and since I was on vacation and thought I hadn't gotten a concussion, I started drinking heavily about 5-6 times afterwards, which I regret to this day. On the morning of the 31st, I really start to feel the symptoms, having glassy eyes, dizzy, having nausea. I go back to sleep and wake up feeling good again. The next day I take a plane ride back home where I just feel awful the whole ride. Coming home, beside the headache I feel good and it continues like this for a week, then finally the concussion symptoms start to kick in, I'm having headaches, dizziness, feeling tired, having a hard time concentrating, trouble with memory, sensitivity to noise and light, feeling of being in a fog.

Fastforward almost 4 months and here I am, I have gotten much better since the first days, but I'm still having symptoms such as hard time concentrating, it feels like I haven't sleept for 2 days when I look at people. Depersonalisation, anxiety, foggy vision sometimes, still sensitive to strong lights and loud noises.

During this time I've really noticed that besides maybe your family, nobody really cares about you and it's a really lonely long road to recovery. This is my first concussion ever, but I still wonder if I'll ever become 100% again.