On Monday I was being seen by a doctor for my lower back pain and as I was starting to sit up from the table, he gave me his hand to help me up. Since I had been talking to him about my bad neck issues, I thought that he would help me up slowly but he pulled pretty hard and quickly. I was a ragdoll for a second and my neck went back in a whiplash like motion.

I had a lot of upper back pain immediately and then a bit later there was a significant change in my headaches and a bunch of my other symptoms.

The increase in symptoms sucks, but the hardest part is dealing with the anxiety that this is more than just a temporary aggravation of things. After 3 nights of sleep, I've seen no change. Usually I feel a lot better in the mornings.

At what point does one consider that they've had another concussive type incident or that the event may have caused a longer term increase in symptoms and length of recovery?

Thanks

I'm no expert but to me it sounds more like a neck issue than reagravating a concussion (don't know if that's important to you but I know that for me it helps my anxiety tremendously if I think it's neck related rather than causing more damage to your brain). Maybe try and relax and treat your neck and I'd say don't stress over this too much.

For me personally I try to take a wider perspective on my symptoms and how I'm feeling so instead of monitoring myself day to day(which fluctuates a lot), I compare myself to how I was doing say 2weeks or a month ago. If I'm at the very least not worse than I was a month ago I know that im probably going in the right direction. I probably have something at least 10 times per day that Im pretty sure wouldn't damage my brain (stepping too hard, bumby metro, stressful event) but causes my symptoms to flare up even just momentarily. If I stopped every time something like this happened I'd never make it through the day.

Don't really know where I'm going here but try not to label what happened and just treat the symptoms and I'm sure you'll get back to normal soon. And if you really wanna label it I'd personally say it was just irratating your neck a bit rather then your brain.

That's really helpful, thanks. It's the same for me. Interpreting it as something to do with just my neck is so much less anxiety producing than interpreting it as another injury to the brain.

Ya I totally get what you're saying. I have a bunch of little flare ups as well. It's just so difficult when a flareup lasts multiple days like this and has increased the symptoms and especially the debilitation that the symptoms cause.

Thanks for the support

No problem, we're both going through setbacks we need to support each other. Just take it easy, don't worry about the symptoms too much and you'll get better. Are you a student also?

Ya the mutual support is nice.

I've been out of school for a number of years but still a student in some senses. Studying piano and literature. How about you?

Oh nice, and yah I'm a student in college currently trying to juggle pcs and going to school. How did you injure yourself if you don't mind me asking?