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Old 11-21-2007, 12:46 PM #1
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Default Concussion - 7 months after

7 months ago i was assaulted and suffered a concussion and was unconcious for around 4/5minutes. I visited a&e and was let home after being examined by a doctor. I suffered all the common syptoms such as sleepiness, headache, dizziness, vomiting etc and was told that these will clear up in most cases within a few days.
After, 3 weeks had passed, some of my symptoms remained the same and the headaches were worse than they had been at first so i visited my G.P who prescribed me painkillers and amitripylene that would help with sleep in meantime until they started helping with the pain aswell.
Now, 7 months on my headaches are so severe its debilitating me! I'm off work at the moment and have been for almost 2 months. Im never away from the doctors and they keep giving me stronger and stronger doses of all these things and not much is helping. I'm due for a CT scan next week.
The headaches are always there but when the get really bad i'm crying with them, it feels like my head is going to explode as its that tight..its mostly the top of my head that gets the worst.
Has anybody else been in this situation or know anybody who has. What could be wrong with me? Maybe it isn't related to th concussion i don't know.
I'm desperate for help, i'm very frightened now!

Thanks for reading, any comments at all are welcome.
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Old 11-21-2007, 01:21 PM #2
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Hi, I'm so sorry about your assault. I was hit by a car while riding my bike six month ago and am still suffering from headaches every day. Sounds very much like you have post-concussion syndrome. Besides the headaches, I still feel somewhat dizzy or more spacy - really hard to describe. I also had the extreme head pressure and tension. Like others on this forum I have not really found anything that helps much. I take Fioricet for headaches, but it should not be taken long-term. Please remember that the head pain is not life-threatening, but I know it is debilitating. My life has been on hold since mid-May.

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Old 11-21-2007, 01:27 PM #3
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I get severe pressure and tension aswell.
Ive also noticed my eyes feeling weak at times as if their struggling to focus almost.
Im on cocodamol, tramadol although it doent agree with me, migraine treatment and amitriptylene. Im concerned about taking all these daily although i need them to take at least the edge of the pain but the dr doesnt seem to be interested in finding the true root cause hes quite happy to cover my symptoms up instead. Its been so long now and the longer its being left the worse im getting.
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I know what you mean, my neurologist told me to look on the internet when I ask him some questions. I was given Neurontin, which only made things worse and Topamax, which I am afraid to take now. What kind of migraine meds are you on? I read where some cause eye problems.
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Their called Tolfenamic acid 200mg rapid tabs, take one every 12hours. its not preventative you take them as the headaches starting, have you heard of them?
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Okay, I'm going to say something first. Sissy if you haven't tried
the topamax. You might want to give it a try. Because its one of
the best medicines for getting migraines undercontrol. I've had
migraines since I was very young. And I'm now 49.

I've been on topamax, at my request for about 4 years now I believe.

Its controlled my migraines pretty good. I took a pretty good dose, till
this year. When I started having high blood pressure and needed to go
down on the topamax because it makes me foggy. But the veraplamin
also is migraine prevention. So they are doubled.

Very well controlled migraines most of time.

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I'm sorry to hear about the traumatic way in that you received the concussion. I'd imagine that this harmed you in psychological ways as well as physically.

I'm just over five months out from my concussion and am still going through the battery of tests. Today I had a brain MRI to see if there is anything besides the concussion causing my symptoms.

As someone who was plagued for years with migraines, I feel very bad for you. I'm so thankful that headaches are NOT a part of my post concussion symptoms because I find them to be debilitating. I can at least work with the crazy symptoms I'm having- but headaches make working all but impossible.

I don't have any answers for you, but just wanted to let you know that I care.

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Default concussion 7 months after

Thank you very much for your really nice comment. Its good to know that there are genuine people out there!
My CT scan is organised for thursday, this will be my first scan since i was assaulted back 7 months ago!!

I wonder if you could help me with this... I saw a doctor on on occasion only, just a month or so ago. She said to me that if ever the case be im getting sent for a scan to deny a CT scan and push for an MRI only as this has tendency to trigger off cancer in people my age group?!
I'm a week or so of 20 years old?

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Thank you for your really nice comment. Its good to know there are genuine caring people out there who are willing to listen and share stories.
I have a CT scan organised for thursday, it'll be my first one since i got assaulted 7 months ago.

I wonder if anyone could help me with this though... I saw a doctor on one occasion about a month or so ago and she told me that if ever the case be that my regular doctor should want me to go for a scan that i shouldn't agree to a CT scan as this has a tendency to trigger off cancer in my afe group?!
Im a week or so off 20?!
Anyone know if this is true? If so how big/small the risk is?

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what nationality are you? Some of your lingo is throwing me off.

Im dont know what an afe is, but ive never heard of cat scans increasing the risk of cancer. That doesnt mean it doesnt. I just havent heard that it will. I hope not as ive had 3 at this point.

If your british, maybe your doc is trying to cut down on national health services spending? idk, im going to go lay down.
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