First time posting, thanks in advance for reading my long, scattered post -

Frustrated with ongoing symptoms, I got on google today and came across this site. I don’t really know where to begin and I’m not sure what I’m looking for by making a post.
This is all new to me and I don’t know what I’m suppose to do anymore, I thought by now, I would be back to work and feeling my self again. That doesn’t seem to be the case.

A little about what happened
I’m a 26 year old female, I fell in an icy parking lot and woke up on my back. When I opened my eyes a woman was above me on the phone calling an ambulance. I was confused, my ear was ringing and my head was incredibly sore.

I was taken to the emergency room, given something through an IV for nausea and morphine for my headache and sore back. The doctor told me that the MRI looked good and that I had a concussion. She gave me some sheets on concussions, and I wast told to rest, take advil, minimize phone/TV/computer and to visit my family doctor in one week. The advil was not touching the headache at all so I started taking some Tylenol 3’s to tide me over until I got to see my family doctor. The family doctor told me all my symptoms were normal, continue to rest , prescribed perocetes for my constant headaches and I was told to come back in one week. I went back after another week had passed, described my symptoms and was told that I have post concussion syndrome. Again I left the doctor with more percolates for the non stop headaches, was told to rest more, no stress, continue wearing ear plugs whenever necessary and was told to come back in another week. Each time I’m told this is normal and that it takes time.

I’m so frustrated with the headaches all day, the foggy/slow feeling, the random dizziness, the exhaustion, not being able to multi task, the heightened sounds, the emotions/crying, being agitated,(Wouldn’t everyone feel agitated if they had a headache all day??) , not feeling coordinated, all of this isn’t NORMAL to me.

I feel helpless, useless and wish there was something more I could be doing. When I actually do stuff, dishes, maybe some laundry, baking some cookies, going to the store, I’m tired afterward. Sometimes I’ll take a nap. The following morning, after focusing on decorating some cookies, I woke up with a pounding headache. Worse than the previous morning. Would it be fair to assume it was from over concentrating while simply baking? I thought it was calming. I’m trying to learn what sets off these headaches, these overwhelming feelings...

Rest just doesn’t seem like a good enough answer to me anymore

Today was eventful - I went ahead with a manicure appointment that I had booked weeks ago. Right away I felt like I wanted to be back at home. A baby was crying, doors slamming, people entering in and out of the building, multiple people talking/laughing throughout the hallway. I felt anxious, my heart was beating faster, my eyes started to well up with tears, my head throbbed from my headache, I felt overwhelmed. I kept it together throughout the appointment for the most part (I cried a bit when my nail tech asked how I’ve been feeling) but I made it through and dealt with the loud electric nail file sounds and the vacuum sounds from the dust vents.
After a two hour appointment, I got home, took a percocet for my insane headache and went to sleep for five hours, right in the middle of the day. I was so exhausted

Before this concussion I had a busy life, fast paced job, loved going out and doing things, and It’s a struggle to decide every time to stay home because I know going out to the grocery store,out for dinner etc will be too overwhelming.

(Words I’m sure my family, boyfriend and friends have become annoyed with - “It will be to overwhelming”, “it was too much”, “I have such a bad headache”)

My family and my boyfriend have been as supportive as they can be, but I’m sure they’re equally worn out, dealing with my emotions and irritability. I don’t want to be a bourdon or a bother anymore. I use to be so independent and I feel like a bunch of that has been taken away from me. Everyday someone says “Feeling better today? Feeling better than yesterday? “. Every day I wake up feeling like ****, foggy, headache, just not my self at all. I desperately want to feel like my self again

I know some of these questions won’t have an answer, but I’d love some insight

- Why am I still having these symptoms 16 days after hitting my head?
- Any thoughts on the pills I’m taking for the headaches?
- Is there anything other than rest that I can do to help the seemingly slooooooow recovery process?
- Should I put my self in those overwhelming uncomfortable situations, like going for a manicure, going to the grocery store etc? Is it best to just do these normal every day things?
- How can I go for dinner with my family, and focus on the conversations happening? I’ve tried ear plugs to dull out the sound
- What can I do to help that overwhelming feeling? How long do most people feel that for?
- I’ll admit, I’m sad, I get down on my self and my situation, I’m bored (especially going from a busy lifestyle to this…)I’m frustrated with this concussion. I’m trying to stay positive, but some days its hard


Thank you for listening,