I don't know how many of your are uncoordinated/unlucky enough to have any extensive head-injury experience, but I figured I might as well throw this out there. It seems that nobody can really point me in the right direction and I'm just confused =(
I was in a rush to get to class early in January of this year when I apparently slipped and hit my head on the wall and then the floor. I went to class without incident and retreated to my dorm room where I vomited and eventually went to our Student Health Center. When she asked me if I'd hit my head, I couldn't remember, but when I put a hand on the back of my head it came away bloody. She sent me to our athletic department (because I am an athlete the Health Center is not allowed to treat us), which prescribed rest and told me to go to class if I could. I waded through about two weeks of classes with sunglasses on and my head down before I started to feel marginally better.
About a week after I returned to my usual activities (track, classes), I fell off a ski lift on my snowboard and hit my head again.
I didn't think I'd hit hard, but I knew within several minutes that I had given myself another concussion. I went back to school and had a seizure and was still vomiting within the first 24 hours. At this point I was alarmed and I tried to go to the Health Center, only to get lost several feet outside my dorm. Security escorted me to the Health Center which again directed me to the athletic department.
They again prescribed rest and suggested that I avoid classes for a week or so. After three weeks of this I was still having symptoms (and I had missed my final exams), so I sucked it up and finished the semester.
For almost two months after my second fall I was having seizures and regularly getting lost on paths that had been familiar before. I would have crippling headaches that left me curled under my bed and popping Tylenol.
I returned home from school early this month, where my normal doctor ordered skull x-rays to determine the potential source of my continuing symptoms (maybe once a week, depending on my activities). It was then that she discovered that I had fractured my skull and damaged my neck (presumably following the second fall).
I have another appointment tomorrow, and I just don't know what to expect. I thought I did everything right. Nobody told me that I should have seen a neurologist...I was scared about the seizures but they all said it was normal. Does anybody know anything about concussions? What happens now? Will the symptoms ever go away or have I screwed myself over? =(
I was in a rush to get to class early in January of this year when I apparently slipped and hit my head on the wall and then the floor. I went to class without incident and retreated to my dorm room where I vomited and eventually went to our Student Health Center. When she asked me if I'd hit my head, I couldn't remember, but when I put a hand on the back of my head it came away bloody. She sent me to our athletic department (because I am an athlete the Health Center is not allowed to treat us), which prescribed rest and told me to go to class if I could. I waded through about two weeks of classes with sunglasses on and my head down before I started to feel marginally better.
About a week after I returned to my usual activities (track, classes), I fell off a ski lift on my snowboard and hit my head again.
I didn't think I'd hit hard, but I knew within several minutes that I had given myself another concussion. I went back to school and had a seizure and was still vomiting within the first 24 hours. At this point I was alarmed and I tried to go to the Health Center, only to get lost several feet outside my dorm. Security escorted me to the Health Center which again directed me to the athletic department.
They again prescribed rest and suggested that I avoid classes for a week or so. After three weeks of this I was still having symptoms (and I had missed my final exams), so I sucked it up and finished the semester.
For almost two months after my second fall I was having seizures and regularly getting lost on paths that had been familiar before. I would have crippling headaches that left me curled under my bed and popping Tylenol.
I returned home from school early this month, where my normal doctor ordered skull x-rays to determine the potential source of my continuing symptoms (maybe once a week, depending on my activities). It was then that she discovered that I had fractured my skull and damaged my neck (presumably following the second fall).
I have another appointment tomorrow, and I just don't know what to expect. I thought I did everything right. Nobody told me that I should have seen a neurologist...I was scared about the seizures but they all said it was normal. Does anybody know anything about concussions? What happens now? Will the symptoms ever go away or have I screwed myself over? =(