BruceAllen
06-01-2008, 03:09 AM
I got hit in the head with a tree log on the left side of my head which knocked my head to the right. I didn't lose conciousness, but I did get confussion and blurry vision.
The symptoms became worse after driving for an hour in my not-so-smooth-riding car.
I went to the doctor and they acted like I'd be ok, just get some rest and don't go boxing or playing football. But I soon realized I had to take it much easier than just not playing football or boxing. The smallest jar to my head would cause acute symptoms of pressure in my head, confusion, changes in perception, sensitivity to sound, extreme sleepiness etc.
I took it easy for 4 days and felt almost completely normal, but after driving just one mile the symptoms started returning.
I rested again until I felt recovered, which was a week this time. I drove, and the symptoms returned again.
I rested 2 weeks, drove, and the same thing happened.
This time I rested for over a month and my cognitive abilities seemed to have finally returned to almost normal again. Then my girlfriend came down, and so my head got jarred a little by her, but I didn't get any acute symptoms from those jars; they didn't seem to affect me. But the two nights she spent with me I only got 4 hours of sleep, so I was very behind on sleep. I was so sleepy and couldn't think, and it's now been over a week and I still haven't fully recovered from that. I still feel very sleepy and can't seem to get enough sleep even though I'm sleepying 8-12 hours most nights.
I am feeling better each night, but I still don't feel normal again yet.
I'm hoping that it was just the sleep deprivation and that because I have post concussion syndrome that I just have to get a lot of sleep without getting behind.
I'm hoping that when I try driving my car again in about 4-7 days from now that the symptoms don't start returning to where I have to start all over in my recovery, which takes longer each time.
Can some brain injuries cause the brain to be insanely easy to reinjure even after you've gotten plenty of timeout? Such as maybe the brain fluid level being low, the brain stem being weakened, or just the brain staying swollen for a long time?
I've never noticed the feeling of my brain moving around in my skull on a minor jar before, but now I can. But I've heard other people say that it's normal to be able to feel your brain move around in your skull when you move your head kind of qucikly and that they can feel their brain move too.
The symptoms became worse after driving for an hour in my not-so-smooth-riding car.
I went to the doctor and they acted like I'd be ok, just get some rest and don't go boxing or playing football. But I soon realized I had to take it much easier than just not playing football or boxing. The smallest jar to my head would cause acute symptoms of pressure in my head, confusion, changes in perception, sensitivity to sound, extreme sleepiness etc.
I took it easy for 4 days and felt almost completely normal, but after driving just one mile the symptoms started returning.
I rested again until I felt recovered, which was a week this time. I drove, and the symptoms returned again.
I rested 2 weeks, drove, and the same thing happened.
This time I rested for over a month and my cognitive abilities seemed to have finally returned to almost normal again. Then my girlfriend came down, and so my head got jarred a little by her, but I didn't get any acute symptoms from those jars; they didn't seem to affect me. But the two nights she spent with me I only got 4 hours of sleep, so I was very behind on sleep. I was so sleepy and couldn't think, and it's now been over a week and I still haven't fully recovered from that. I still feel very sleepy and can't seem to get enough sleep even though I'm sleepying 8-12 hours most nights.
I am feeling better each night, but I still don't feel normal again yet.
I'm hoping that it was just the sleep deprivation and that because I have post concussion syndrome that I just have to get a lot of sleep without getting behind.
I'm hoping that when I try driving my car again in about 4-7 days from now that the symptoms don't start returning to where I have to start all over in my recovery, which takes longer each time.
Can some brain injuries cause the brain to be insanely easy to reinjure even after you've gotten plenty of timeout? Such as maybe the brain fluid level being low, the brain stem being weakened, or just the brain staying swollen for a long time?
I've never noticed the feeling of my brain moving around in my skull on a minor jar before, but now I can. But I've heard other people say that it's normal to be able to feel your brain move around in your skull when you move your head kind of qucikly and that they can feel their brain move too.