Hey Travis, i hope that you get some answers. did they give you any mental exercises to do? perhaps it will take a little time for the part of the brain that deals with vision to heal.

hang in there

Nah, not at all. They gave me Klonopin to deal with the anxiety attacks but it doesnt help my vision at all and it usually just sedates me to where I dont care about anything. Thanks for the post.

Travis- if you're still around, have you been back to see another neurologist? I really hope you get this figured out.

I was diagnosed with post concussion syndrome about 2 and a half months ago after being struck by a ball in the head from close range. I had the same kinds of symptoms as everyone else it seems but i haven't taken anything towards it. my doctor has told me to stay positive and forget about it but it's hard when you're struck down with anxiety attacks and headaches every once in a while for no reason. Some of the symptoms are starting to go but the emotional ones are still there, what could i do to treat this. Please,anyone let me know thank you.

abu44b:
I also had a concussion 3 weeks ago. Experienced the same things - headaches, anxiety (which makes the headaches much worse; like a negative spiral), and feeling spaced out.

EFT (Emotional Freedom Technique) really helps with the emotional issues. In fact, it pretty much removes them. I notice when the emotional issues are dealt with, the physical symptoms go away faster. Try it - "tap" your concerns that cause your anxiety attacks or just fears regarding your condition. A major one for me was the fear that any physical exertion that I went though (like driving a car) made my condition worse and now its gonna be harder to recover. In my experience its the anxiety that makes the symptoms worse not the actual car driving or buzzing on a trumpet mouthpiece. Set it up as "Even though I feel that driving that car made my condition worse" or "even though I feel that i wont ever be the way i was before" in the setup statement, give it some time and see if the PCS symptoms subside.

Hi,

I suffered a mild closed head injury which left a cut on the upper left side of my head after a fall on new years day. The reason I fell is because I'm diabetic and I had too much to drink the night before and it lowered my sugar levels the next day. 2 days after the incident I started to feel different, hard to explain like a feeling I hadn't felt since a toddler in the 1970's, feeling nauseas, disorientated, mild tinnitus, restlessness, sleeping problems (which have resolved) though I still dont have as much energy as I did prior to the accident, I did have loss of apetite but that's back to normal now, anxiety and worst of all depression, thinking it's day 12 and so on am I going to get better. I've been back to the hospital where I was taken too, but they fobbed me off saying g oback to your GP if you want a scan or MRI, the gp's wouldn't refer me saying the injury was too minor give it time. This has dragged on till now, only last week when I went back to my old GP after being a patient there for nearly 30 years, I went there because I had a pain in my rigth ear which amplified my tinnitus even though my tinnitus had reduced in volume over the months, she gave me some ear,nose and eyes drops and said it was inflammed. I hinted it's just as well treating the symptoms what about the cause and I asked for an MRI, again they refused. 2 days later after feeling angry and frustrated I have since registered with another doctor just a couple of miles away. I have been trying endless alternative therapies over the months, the most recent is cosmodic therapy/scenar(look it up on the internet)it feels as though it's helped or is it the bodies natural healing process. The thing what annoys me the most is that I haven't even had a formal diagnosis yet. Hope my visit to my new gp on thursday will prove otherwise. We all know how awful PSC can be, well those who have experienced it. In a way I am a more calmer driver, but I want my old self back. I'm getting concerned and impatient. Do or did any of you get noise sensitivity or tinnitus?

Sounds like a bad fall Billy. The noise sensitivity took about a week to go away, might take longer for you but in my experience it goes away. I also had the "I want my old self back" problem with many other concerns and my since my concussion was more than 4 months ago, I now realize now that the lasting disorientation/spacing out/not feeling like oneself is because of the anxiety, not the concussion. My anxiety drove me to panic attacks and depersonalization (didn't know it was anxiety at the time) and now a head hitting phobia... all because I was mistaking the anxiety symptoms as worsening concussion symptoms. I would suggest trying to move through the anxiety and let your body heal on its own instead of ruminating because if you do, the spacing out and anxiety will get worse and will lead to something which feels a LOT worse than a PCS headache, then you might end up with PTSD and a chronic phobic anxiety. I understand its scary to let go of the anxiety because of issues like "What is somethihng goes wrong" or "I needto be concerned to monitor my condition" but all of these will do more harm than good in the end. With a head injury there can many many concerns - worsening intellect, making the damage worse, SIS, emotional problems, becoming a different person, etc. All these worries will amplify the anxiety subtly and lead to bad anxiety symptoms which can be mistaking for something wrong with the head. EFT can really help from everything to feeling like something is off, to inacceptance of the head injury, fear of the future, etc everything that comes to mind tap on it, itll speed up the healing process as well.

I just had my concussion 3 weeks ago. It happended during a baseball game when i was sliding into 2nd base and got hit in the head. Even though i had a helmet on it didnt stop the concussion which is my 1st problem how could it happen when im wearing it? This is my 3rd concussion all from baseballs to the head previous 2 w/o helmets on. The 1st wasnt serious and was when i was a child and the 2nd more serius as i threw up from it, 3 yrs ago. As you guys feals more worried and anxiety about it happening it again, i do to. I feel so stressed out about it. But also i notice ive been feeling a lot more depressed from not knowing when or if im going to get bettter, i mean im 16 and an honors student and i just dont know where to turn to. The symmptoms ive been feeling are at 1st constant headache, dizziness, coulnt sleep, fatigued. Now little headache sleepping more, but still feel really tired. Not to mention w/ all the emotional crap ive been dealing w/.Please post your thoughts and opoinions.

JT5493, don't be worried, listen to my story--

I was 16, a sophomore, i lettered in football and baseball my freshman an sophomore years! i was i good athlete.and good student, 3.9 gpa.

my freshman year basketball season got a pick set on me and bounced my head off the floor like a rubber ball. this was my first concussion i suffered. the following football season its two a days, i get blind sighted by a lineman, i was linebacker, this was concussion number two.

now it was known to me that if you get 3 concussions in a year you are done with contact sports, forever. so i took two months off i had no more symptoms so i started working out again and by week 6 that year i was playing on friday nights again.

idk what happened but i dont remember week 7 through 10. i knew something wasn't right. i had a headache that wouldn't stop. this is when i had to make to decision to give up football and tell the trainer.

that spring after baseball season ended, the night before we had won out tounry, i was out at my girl friends, got a horrible headache and had to go home. on my way home that night i had a stroke...didnt move for a week. my injuries were a traumatic brain injury, internal bleeding, 3 skull fractures the list goes on and on. i was in the hospital for 3 months.

all of this very sad yes, there were many sad things along the way. i am in college now. i graduated top ten of my class and just got all A's in my first grade card.

my advise to everyone-- do not take concussions lightly. do not think oh this kid is just preachin it won't happen to me. trust me it does i was a stud,i dated the homecoming queen as a sophomore.trust me i know how you feel. be very careful. you dont want to end up waking up and not being able to move. take time off give your brain time to rest and heal.