What To Do If You Think You Have Had a Concussion?

i was walking my dog and there were three dogs walking passed us and I had to hold him down because they where trying to go after him, and he popped my jaw closed with the back of his head, it stunned me a little and I had to check to see if I still had all my teeth but ever since then I get random pains on my left side of my head... It's just that, no other signs. And the pain doesn't stay, it's there and gone in an instant, but it happens frequently. Nothing really triggers it. If I take pain killers it'll go away but come back after the meds go away.

Well I play football currently (I'm only in 8th grade so usually nothing bad like a brain injury happens) and during today's practice I had a few hard hits like when my head hit the ground a few times but the one that made me have to take a breath was a collision with a linebacker, I told the coaches that my head hurt a few plays after they asked if it was a concussion and at first all I did was say I don't think so. They asked again and I said no. Later after practice I came home and felt tired and really pukey I was gonna take a shower but I couldn't stand because my feet hurt so I took a bath, during the bath I fell asleep and woke up about a half an hour later. Now I'm looking up the symptoms and as I'm reading them I'm realizing how I forgot to do anything in the bath besides sleep and I'm laying in a dark room with a bowl next to me in case I puke. Please help me, I have no idea what to do.

Wow.  I lost consciousness, had a seizure and suffered amnesia when I fell off my bicycle 35 years ago.  I haven't thought to tell any physicians.  I don't see what good it would do now...  I do suffer from depression and anxiety which developed in the years shortly after, and I take medication for that along with Nuvigil which helps my overall functioning immensely.

I have had 10+ concussions from low speed impact car accidents, falling, hitting a refrigerator, someone dropping their suitcase on me etc. over the years. After my last one I couldn't understand anything I tried to read. I found a clinic that provides hyperbaric oxygen treatments & went for 10 sessions. By the 8th treatment I could read, follow conversations, sleep comfortably, headache was gone, could type & felt more energetic. Read "the Oxygen Revolution, " by Paul Harch M.D. and find out what kind of healing is possible for yourself- regardless of how old your injuries are.

Very helpful. Thank u

My boyfriend hit me hard in the head. The next day I was dizzy, sleepy, slurring my words. This is the second time he has done this. The first time I felt even worst. I was even scared to drive. Can you get a concussion if you get hit in the head hard enough??

I fell in my home and broke my toe and hit my head. I went to the urgent care. They x-rayed my toe, but didn't want to hear anything about my head. I had a low grade headache, but no bleeding and no lump. I never lost consciousness. The doctor sort of berated me for wanting him to look at me, and tell me what to do about my head injury. Next day I'm feeling a little more confused and foggy, but I still have my memory and my pupils look normal, no vomiting, but I am a little cranky. Hard to know what to do when the doctors make fun of you for wanting advice you're told to get in this sort of situation.

Folks, a lot of you here have had concussions of varying degrees of severity. If your TBI was long ago, there's not much you can do. If it was recent, go to the doctor, just to make sure you have no bleeding or blood clots forming. These events may have no symptoms but could be progressive and could cause death within a few days. Your brain is fragile and just a moderate amount of it banging up against the cranial wall can injure tissue and blood vessels, helmet or no helmet. Please take this seriously.  

I hit my head snowboarding  and went to the doctors the next day and the doctors didn't do anything about it and then i went to the hospital on two days after i hit my head and after my headaches and vision got worse. The hospital didn't do a MRI or CT scan they just told me i have a concussion. Like who knows if i have anything wrong with my brain. It was so stupid and now i will never know if i have anything wrong with my head 

I am fourteen and have had two concussions which were two months apart. first one was in july and was a grade 3 concussion and second one was in september and was a grade one concussion. i am still not allowed to play sports. It is a bad excuse to get out of school!

Find an osteopath who does cranio sacral therapy . I was hit by a car when I was cycling and had a concussion . After just the first session the confusion and disorientation and vision problems improved . After the second session the dizziness was gone. The bones in the skull are gently repositioned Fabulous therapy

Can your eyes still be blurry if u have a concussion? But now show on ct or mri

I've gotten two concussions in my life but I don't remember exactly how they happened. The first one was when I was six, I was swinging and I remember going very high before I blacked out. When I woke up I was being carried inside and I last consciousness a few more times after that because the pain in my head was so severe and eventually I vomited. My parents figured it wasn't really a concussion and never took me to the doctor. It wasn't until years later when I got another concussion (from falling and heading my head against the bottom of an empty pool) and I complained of chronic headaches and memory loss that they finally took me to see someone. Now I get a nasty headache almost every week and my long term memory is much worse than it used to be. Make sure to get yourself checked out if you get a head injury because the after effects can last for years, if not indefinitely.

I was involved in a car accident as a passenger back in 1987. A drunk driver broadsided our four door car. The rear passenger door buckled and my first reaction was turning my body to the left to get out of the seat. My head went into the windshield and left a round spidered circle. I was knocked out but had came back as the car was in a spin for a ditch. The car went through a barbed wire fence into a farmers field. Although shaken up I did not go to the hospital at age 11. The following days I had headache and nausea and slept straight for two days. I was a kid and felt invincible up to that point. Then fear started to take over. My outlet was sports and I wasn't going to let fear take me over. But the fogginess and confusion still persisted for months later and a loss of short term memory. Long term memory became excellent to almost supernatural. Years later I had CT scans and mRI scans done. Nothing showed. After high school I quit sports altogether then noticed how much has changed since with mood, emotions, and irritability. There are long term effects that need to be recognized with concussions and I hope someone does studies on this.

My husband fell forward on concrete at work. He softened the head blow with his arms. A man ran up to help and kicked him in the temple with a steel toe shoe. He was trying to help. I believe he had a concussion. Sleeping a lot, memory issues, or just didn't make sense! I have never delt with this. And he is pron to blood clots. After over 2 weeks he is better. Neck and head still hurting. He also broke his toe and still made him work!

Sounds like some people on here have had or have concussions, I"m not a doctor only someone suffering with a concussion.  To answer the questions as to why they haven't gone to the emergency room or doctor or whatever, with my concussion I've found, I have needed someone to tell me what to do, for some reason I wasn't able to make the decision for myself.  Part of myself kept thinking I was making a big deal out of nothing etc and part of me knew I should see a doctor but until someone told me to make an appointment, I was unable.  Anyway, if you think you may have a concussion go see the doctor and tell him how you are feeling.  I was in a car accident, I had not visible injuries and no one thought to ask the right questions regarding concussion, I thought I was fine, just in shock maybe, but I wasn't.  So call!
 

Get a ct scan, make sure theres no bleeding. And rest, stay out of gym.

Jesus people, yes you have a concussion. I've had several and all of your symptoms sound much worse than what I was experiencing, or on par with the worst one.

Go to the doctor right away, even if you're feeling mostly better. Its your brain - you will be sorry you took extra precaution. Please see a doc.

I am 12 and got a one when playing soccer. The doc said I would be able to play in a week or so but after a week I was still not feeling good so my mom took me agian and they ened up saying I wasn't aloud in loud places so I couldn't do anything or be around anything that is really loud.

I am 29 years old and I crashed a dirt bike going over a 9th jump and Landed on my head. I knocked myself completely out. I woke up 17 hours later in a hospital. CT scan was normal. Good thing I was wearing a good helmet and my neck brace or my neck would be broken for sure. 2 weeks later I still have symptoms. Doctors say it's normal. Takes a while for the Brain to heal up!