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Concussions - had one? (1 Viewer)

captain_amazing

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A few Sundays ago, I'm cleaning around my house and toss a bunch of crap on the second step of my this floor stairway to store in the attic. Being too lazy to grab some of it on my way up to watch the Pats lose, I hopped over it. At the end of the game, on my way down, I attempt to leap over the crap on the second step and end up smacking the top of my head on the top of the door jam. I immediately felt lost and a bit confused as to what happened, and stumbled the rest of the way down the stairs to my wife, who laughed and yelled at me at the same time for being a clumsy idiot. The rest of the night felt really strange, but I felt OK at the end and went to bed.

Got to work the next day, and everything very rapidly went downhill. I couldn't concentrate at anything on my computer monitor, was walking very slow (I'm a fast walker normally), was using the hand rail like I was 80 going up and down the stairs, and couldn't focus on doing the simplest task. I went to see my boss who quickly gave me a startled look, staring right into my eyes, as they apparently were very glassy. I told her what happened and she said I should go see my doctor, which I did.

Fast forward - I was diagnosed with a mild concussion and was asked to take a week off of work. I ended up taking two and a half days off, plus two more half days, before I started feeling normal again.

I had never had a concussion before, despite playing sports nearly my whole life, and did not realize how messed up it really is. Back to 100% a few days ago.

Anyone else had one? What was your experience like?

 
captain_amazing said:
A few Sundays ago, I'm cleaning around my house and toss a bunch of crap on the second step of my this floor stairway to store in the attic. Being too lazy to grab some of it on my way up to watch the Pats lose, I hopped over it. At the end of the game, on my way down, I attempt to leap over the crap on the second step and end up smacking the top of my head on the top of the door jam. I immediately felt lost and a bit confused as to what happened, and stumbled the rest of the way down the stairs to my wife, who laughed and yelled at me at the same time for being a clumsy idiot. The rest of the night felt really strange, but I felt OK at the end and went to bed.

Got to work the next day, and everything very rapidly went downhill. I couldn't concentrate at anything on my computer monitor, was walking very slow (I'm a fast walker normally), was using the hand rail like I was 80 going up and down the stairs, and couldn't focus on doing the simplest task. I went to see my boss who quickly gave me a startled look, staring right into my eyes, as they apparently were very glassy. I told her what happened and she said I should go see my doctor, which I did.

Fast forward - I was diagnosed with a mild concussion and was asked to take a week off of work. I ended up taking two and a half days off, plus two more half days, before I started feeling normal again.

I had never had a concussion before, despite playing sports nearly my whole life, and did not realize how messed up it really is. Back to 100% a few days ago.

Anyone else had one? What was your experience like?
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Never had one but had a GB in college that did. He had to take a medical leave for the rest of the year and wasn't better until at least 7mths later. Was scary to see him try and function. No short term memory, couldn't concentrate, glassy eyed all the time.

 
I had one as a kid but bounced back within a week or so. The two or three nights of my mom waking me up every two hours weren't great and my short term memory was shot for a bit. That's all I really remember about it other than how I got it (which I know only through stories told to me).

I think I turned out alright but people who know me IRL dispute that claim.

 
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captain_amazing said:
Anyone else had one? What was your experience like?
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I was mugged leaving a sports bar about six years ago, was knocked unconscious and awoke in the E.R. Experienced traumatic amnesia over the mugging itself and remember nothing about it to this day (which may be for the best).

My short term memory, which is normally excellent, was messed up for about a month. But no after effects beyond that and no long term effects that I am aware of (and none that have been mentioned by friends or family).

 
Hawks64 said:
captain_amazing said:
A few Sundays ago, I'm cleaning around my house and toss a bunch of crap on the second step of my this floor stairway to store in the attic. Being too lazy to grab some of it on my way up to watch the Pats lose, I hopped over it. At the end of the game, on my way down, I attempt to leap over the crap on the second step and end up smacking the top of my head on the top of the door jam. I immediately felt lost and a bit confused as to what happened, and stumbled the rest of the way down the stairs to my wife, who laughed and yelled at me at the same time for being a clumsy idiot. The rest of the night felt really strange, but I felt OK at the end and went to bed.

Got to work the next day, and everything very rapidly went downhill. I couldn't concentrate at anything on my computer monitor, was walking very slow (I'm a fast walker normally), was using the hand rail like I was 80 going up and down the stairs, and couldn't focus on doing the simplest task. I went to see my boss who quickly gave me a startled look, staring right into my eyes, as they apparently were very glassy. I told her what happened and she said I should go see my doctor, which I did.

Fast forward - I was diagnosed with a mild concussion and was asked to take a week off of work. I ended up taking two and a half days off, plus two more half days, before I started feeling normal again.

I had never had a concussion before, despite playing sports nearly my whole life, and did not realize how messed up it really is. Back to 100% a few days ago.

Anyone else had one? What was your experience like?
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Never had one but had a GB in college that did. He had to take a medical leave for the rest of the year and wasn't better until at least 7mths later. Was scary to see him try and function. No short term memory, couldn't concentrate, glassy eyed all the time.
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My doc said that I could feel better in a few days or a few months, which freaked me a out. Thankfully, I was on the spectrum of the former.
 
A couple playing football and one doing almost exactly how you described.

I bounced back quickly, no long lasting effects. :oldunsure:

 
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squistion said:
captain_amazing said:
Anyone else had one? What was your experience like?
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I was mugged leaving a sports bar about six years ago, was knocked unconscious and awoke in the E.R. Experienced traumatic amnesia over the mugging itself and remember nothing about it to this day (which may be for the best).

My short term memory, which is normally excellent, was messed up for about a month. But no after effects beyond that and no long term effects that I am aware of (and none that have been mentioned by friends or family).
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Yikes. I was a vomit or unconscious event away from them calling an MRI, which would've sucked. I was telling everyone I wished I had a better story - I play enough sports where I could've had some great story to tell. But I guess I'm fortunate to not have something like yours - that's rough man.

 
A few is a kid that I had no problems recovering from. At least that I can remember.

As an adult I took a thrown softball to the side of my head that knocked me unconscious for a second or two. That one knocked me for quite a loop. I only missed a day or two of work but I actually had some speech problems for a few weeks. That was kind of scary. It was probably about 4 months until I actually felt 100% normal again.

 
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Freakiest thing is not having your facilities at 100%. It was similar to being really stoned, but not enjoyable.
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Few years back I took an elbow to the back of the head fighting for a rebound in a bball game.. clean out like a switch.

Took about a month to feel like myself again. I was nauseous for a day or two.

 
None diagnosed at the time. Looking back, I think I probably had 2 as a kid. Knocked myself silly on the blacktop playing basketball at recess in 5th grade. Another one probably my freshman year of HS. Nobody cared back then.

My younger brother was a pretty high level HS and college lacrosse player. He picked up concussion #3 a little over a year ago. My parents are very glad he's done playing competitively now. (graduated college). He still plays pickup and some tournaments but its nowhere near as physical. His high school teammate (Who was supposed to be a college teammate) got one right after they got to school and they never allowed him to play again.

 
I was playing soccer, went up for a flick header, and bashed the back of my skull into the defender behind me, who was going for a strong nodding header the other direction.

I landed with the side of my head on the ground, and my vision was swinging back and forth wildly, and I couldn't move anything in my body. The vision swings lessened each swing like a damped sine wave https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damped_sine_wave. As the swings lessened, I could tell that I was looking at my arm and hand on the ground, but couldn't move it. When the vision stopped swinging (point 5 in the picture), my hand finally moved, and I was able to move everything. That was probably around a 3-5 second episode, but it felt like a couple of minutes at the time - it scared the hell out of me.

I got some stitches, but don't remember any light sensitivity or headaches.

 
I've had three. One where I was out for a few minutes and didn't know my name for several hours. It's impossible to know if they resulted any long-term damage. At least without having a doctor try and figure it out. Not much point to that though.

 
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Yikes. I was a vomit or unconscious event away from them calling an MRI, which would've sucked.I was telling everyone I wished I had a better story - I play enough sports where I could've had some great story to tell. But I guess I'm fortunate to not have something like yours - that's rough man.
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I am not complaining. Consider myself one of the luckiest people alive. I could have been killed, suffered permanent brain damage, been paralyzed or had some other really nasty long term consequences. I am grateful I came out of it relatively unscathed.

 
Had one at 17, while playing summer league legion baseball. I was at bat wearing a helmet and the pitcher was a high school teammate of mine (that was a little wild). Anyway, the pitch hit me in the back of the helmet, and I never blacked out, but they took me out of the game for a pinch runner. I vomited in the dugout soon after and that's when one of player's mom, who was a nurse, recognized the symptoms immediately and sent me home.

I wish that was the end of the story, but after a couple of days at home resting, I couldn't shake the symptoms and was then hospitalized for several days of observation. While the post-concussion testing in the hospital wasn't that bad, the worst part about it was a nurse would wake me up every couple of hours and ask me stupid questions like, "What yr is it?"....."Who is the president?". I know they were checking on me, but still was a pain cause all I wanted to do was sleep it off.

 
I have had many. The last one seemed mild when it happened, but I feel like I still haven't recovered fully six month later.

 
I took a softball in the face 10 or so years back. I am told that I argued profusely with my team whether I could play or not (my nose was pointing sideways) then drove myself to the ER. I don't really remember any of it. I did have a headache for two days or so but nothing long lasting. The doc resetting my nose two weeks later was the worst pain I have ever felt. Oh and the two black eyes for weeks was pretty cool as well. :banned: I now play the outfield only.

 
High school basketball, opponent stole the ball and was heading the other way for a layup. I decided that wasn't going to happen so took off after him. He went for the layup, I jumped at full speed to block the shot. I blocked it, but nailed my forehead into the backboard (look at me, I jumped so high I hit my head on the backboard!) The last thing I remember is seeing my feet in front of my face while hearing the ref whistle for goaltending.

I was unconscious on the hardwood for about 3 minutes. They took me to the hospital in an ambulance.

No long term effects as far as I can pumpernickel.

 
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Got knocked out playing softball. Apparently when I came to I watched the rest of the game, shook hands with the other team, etc. About 5 minutes into getting ready to go home and our team was sitting around and I suddenly became aware of my surroundings. I was really sore and asked the guys around me if I had hurt myself. They kind of chuckled and I asked again telling them I was serious. They couldn't believe that I couldn't remember getting knocked out. I had about a half hour that is just completely gone. Went to the hospital and got diagnosed with a pretty significant concussion.

After about 3 weeks I felt all better. 2 more months after that I realized that while I had been a whole lot better after 2 weeks, I still had only been at about 70%. I still had dizzy spells every once in a while up to about a year later.

My wife got a really bad concussion whose severity was misdiagnosed initially. She went back to work after just a week and struggled badly for the next 2 months. She had to return to a concussion specialist and at the 3 month mark cleared her to return to work (not realizing that she had been working that whole time). 16 months later and she still has some symptoms. Of course, she's a walking disaster and has also managed about 4 more minor concussions since then as well.

 
Got one in elementary school on the playground. Had all the things you described. I remember trying to read my book and it was completely jumbled.

Thing I really remember is being in nurses office after school was over. The nurse must have told me to do something which I had no clue because I was concussed. A teacher came by on her way out and just happened to see me sitting there all by myself. She drove me home. Could have sat there all night :lol:

Today there would probably be a big lawsuit.

 
I think they're different for everyone. I got knocked out very briefly playing softball in my 20's. I slid into the 3rd baseman's knee and things went black but I heard the 3rd baseman say "he's out" (as in knocked) but I just rolled over with my face full of dirt. They proceeded to call an ambulance and I got carted off on a stretcher but I don't remember (no pun) any lingering side effects from it except a sore neck for a few days

 
belljr said:
I'd say between 8 to 12.
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I actually went back and really thought about it and came up with 8 verified and probably closer to 12-15 that I didn't know about. This whole concussion thing in football got me thinking about it as I have some issues with short term memory so I thought I would document it in the chance that at some point I become incapacitated. My family doesn't know anything about my HS years since I met my wife long after that time but most were suffered then and during college when I played at a division 3 school. The worst was in college when I was a pulling guard going against an All American linebacker and hit him headon with a terrible hangover. As he helped me up after making the tackle he asked if I was ok. Had no recollection of the hit, was probably out for a few seconds. Wander back to the huddle and the coach calls the same play...lather rinse, repeat. I took myself out after the second one. Had a helluva headache for the rest of the day but aside from that no long term effects like the OP.

I think anyone who played football has had them whether you were aware or not. Given the long term (30-40 years later) effects we see from NFL players I would encourage everyone to document or at the very least have a discussion with your family to let them know what's happened in the past just so they are aware. I think as time goes by we will find more & more that a lot of brain issues will be related back to these events.

 
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beer 30 said:
belljr said:
I'd say between 8 to 12.
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I actually went back and really thought about it and came up with 8 verified and probably closer to 12-15 that I didn't know about. This whole concussion thing in football got me thinking about it as I have some issues with short term memory so I thought I would document it in the chance that at some point I become incapacitated. My family doesn't know anything about my HS years since I met my wife long after that time but most were suffered then and during college when I played at a division 3 school. The worst was in college when I was a pulling guard going against an All American linebacker and hit him headon with a terrible hangover. As he helped me up after making the tackle he asked if I was ok. Had no recollection of the hit, was probably out for a few seconds. Wander back to the huddle and the coach calls the same play...lather rinse, repeat. I took myself out after the second one. Had a helluva headache for the rest of the day but aside from that no long term effects like the OP.

I think anyone who played football has had them whether you were aware or not. Given the long term (30-40 years later) effects we see from NFL players I would encourage everyone to document or at the very least have a discussion with your family to let them know what's happened in the past just so they are aware. I think as time goes by we will find more & more that a lot of brain issues will be related back to these events.
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Yeah - it has me wondeing am I just reaching that "age" or is it "something else"

I had 5 I was diagnosed by a doctor

2 - football

1 - collision in HS bball game

1 - collision in baseball

1 - fell out of a tree at home

Others I know I had one but just went with it

1- Ice Hockey went face first into boards, lucky I did't break my neck

2 - snowboarding, No helmet - wiped out in terrain park. Before you get on me - there is no way now, I wouldn't wear a helmet. Snowboarding just started getting popular. Was completely unconscious.

1 - Fell of a rope swing rolled down about 10ft feet

1- playing tackle football with friends, tackled landed on a railroad tye

I'm sure there are others :bag:

 
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I find it a miracle that I've only had one.

It was a basketball game in 8th grade where I hit head to head with a teammate going after a loose ball. I ended up puking that night, went the hospital, had a CAT scan and got up every 2 hours for the next 24 hours. I was fine the next day.

I played college basketball and 2 years of football (NAIA), but as a WR that didn't play much, I rarely took many hits. The worst hit I ever took was getting hit by two safeties at the same time, which led to bruised ribs. I caught a couple of elbows in basketball that led to stitches, but never got another concussion.

 
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I assume I have had mild concussions. There is a familiar feeling, taste/smell, that happens that I am pretty sure are the symptoms.

I recall it happening several times when I was younger during a hard fall, hit, etc. The ones I remember specifically were from falling wake boarding, and getting hit playing hockey.

 
Two that ended up being very minor in the last couple of years, not much more than a lingering headache for 2-3 days.

One major one as a little kid. Woke up in a hospital bed late at night with the worst headache of my life, and no clue how I got there. Scary for a kid. Later on I kind of vaguely remembered picking what clothes to wear that morning but that was my only recollection of that entire day.

Apparently was playing basketball at my cousins house and my brother who was a lot older knocked me down during it and they said my head bounced off the concrete. They were worried but I got up like it was nothing and just walked off down the street. They thought I was goofing around as I ignored them all and walked away. Until I was practically out of sight. They chased me down and dragged me back to the house forcibly because I was just keeping walking and wouldn't go back. They got my parents who took me to the hospital as I wasn't responding to anyone normally.

Was on strict bed rest, a couple of days before I could even make assisted trips to the bathroom. Scary stuff at that age.

 
I've had my "bell rung" a few times playing football as a kid. Don't remember it lasting more than a few minutes.

I'm completely normal now so I guess no lasting effects.

 
Had one during high school wrestling practice. I was literally knocked out for a little bit. I stopped wrestling for good after that and I think I'm okay now.

 
None that were diagnosed, but I'm fairly certain I had three:

* Senior year of HS. Playing our rivals in our Home Coming game. They had a 240 pound fullback they liked to give the ball to on the goal line. They were on the three so we all knew he was getting it. I shoot through untouched when the center and guard both blocked the blitzing LB and I hit him so hard we both got knocked out. I went back in and played, but don't remember anything else that day, including the HC dance.

* Wrestling tournament my junior year. Both of us tried to shoot in for a single leg and both of us went down. I technically 'won' since he had a large gash over his eye that wouldn't stop bleeding, but I couldn't wrestle any more matches that day either.

* Pick up football game a few years ago. I went up to defend a pass and lost my footing and hit the back of my head on the frozen ground. I was out cold for that one too.

 
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Got jumped from behind once, got hit and hit my head on the ground. Don't really remember any of it Barely remember getting the CT Scan....but do remember kind of joking around about not remembering because I kept repeating Joe Pesci's line from Lethal Weapon 3 "there was a party......and somebody brought a monkey cause the monkey knocked over the salad bar."

 
I still laugh about my one snowboarding and basketball.

My coach said after the collision. I was just running up and down the court but not doing anything.

I come out and he starts into me.

"What are you doing out there, you're getting beat, etc." About halfway into it he looks at me and realizes uh oh something is off.

Trainer comes over, I'm sitting on the bench just rambling on :lol:

He yelled for me to get into the game middle of the 4th quarter forgetting I was a bumbling mess on the end of the bench :lmao:

 
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Concussions often get overlooked because they are relatively common, but their long-term impacts can be pretty substantial. How many people get CAT scans after a concussion or have long-term monitoring?

My brother had a serious concussion late in High School and he went from A student, scholarship athlete to trainwreck in a year. Was it the concussion? No way to know. He wasn't obviously brain damaged, but his personality definitely changed.

 
Yes. Sideswiped on the road (the other guys fault big time) 6/27/15.

Still have ongoing absurd headaches, regular dizzy spells, horrible memory, sleep problems with occasion nightmares and terrible tinnitus. I'm also irritable and most likely depressed. Currently on a bunch of migraine meds (dopomax, pamelor, Zoloft, Ativan - all of which benefit me very little aside from making me catatonic so I can sleep for a few hours), high amounts of B-2s and high amounts of magnesium (helps the most IMO). See the docs about every 3-4 weeks and have weekly sessions of acupuncture and now taking yoga. Pain meds really don't put a dent in the symptoms which is frustrating and they acctually cause what's called "rebound headaches". I try hard to maintain daily perspective and am only fortunate to live in Pittsburgh with our amazing network of docs and concussion clinics.

It's been my own personal ongoing nightmare. I cannot fathom what a Mike Webster and others must have went through and are still going through. Thoughts and prayers to all effected by these symptoms. Truly.

 
Wow - some pretty intense stories. It's funny too, as everyone I spoke to had no experience with anyone that had had suffered a concussion (that they knew of), which I thought was surprising, figuring it was a bit more common than that. I was talking to my older sister yesterday who asked if I was going to wear a helmet at flag football, to which I laughed at (she was dead serious). I do wear a mouth guard (lost a tooth a few years back playing floor hockey) and am probably the only one in the league that does, but would never consider wearing a helmet.

 
One of the other interesting things is reading about all of the people with concussions in the past who were woken up a bunch throughout the night.

That's not what they do anymore. They advise to have someone check on you to make sure you appear to be OK, but rest is so important to the healing process that they don't advise waking the person up anymore.

 
GroveDiesel said:
One of the other interesting things is reading about all of the people with concussions in the past who were woken up a bunch throughout the night.

That's not what they do anymore. They advise to have someone check on you to make sure you appear to be OK, but rest is so important to the healing process that they don't advise waking the person up anymore.
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I remember being told to not sleep for a certain amount of time

 
I got one playing football. I was on defense and collided with a receiver. I was out for about 20 seconds, ko'd. I couldn't remember anything that happened for about 30 minutes after I woke up. It was one of the scariest things that ever happened to me. I was so confused as to why I was at a football field. I went and got an MRI, concussion. The next two weeks were pretty awful. Moving really slow and having a bad headache for most of the time.

 
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