u/Sebastivn

Thank you very much for clicking, I hope you're doing well.

To preface: 2 days before this happened, I had 2 minor flare ups due to me spiking my heart rate too high at the gym, and going all out on the buffalo treadmill test. I've gotten both flare ups from tapping my chin and anxiety/stress induced ones in the past.

My concussion happened on Oct 9 2025, I have PCS. On Mar 2 2026 I was doing incline bench, and when I leaned back I bumped the upper back part of my head on the bench. I thought I had abit more room till my head was at the bench but I guess I didn't, I just felt fine from it, then when I moved to a different exercise I was thinking about it and wondering if I should be worried about it.

Later that night I was laying down beside my partner we each have our own pillows and we also have a long body pillow ontop of our top of our 2 pillows. I'm laying on my back in between them (so my head is on my pillow, and the body pillow is on my face), and my partner is propped up on her pillow and the body pillow, when she's done reading she pulls the body pillow to try and put it in between us, but essentially pulls it across my face hard, hitting the side of my head. I felt really worried and upset about it.

The next 5 days or so I was feeling significantly worse, if my concussion was 8/10 this would be a 7/10 but for sure the worst flare up I've had. I had a bad headache, my whole scalp felt like it was burning, issues stumbling over words, screen time tolerance went down alot, my vision was worse (my vision has been in and out since the concussion but it was definitely worse post these incidents) and I now have alittle of visual snow. It took me about 4-5 weeks to come to a new baseline with some of these symptoms only lasting a couple weeks and others staying longer, my baseline is worse off than before these incidents took place. I was really and anxious and stressed about this for about 6 weeks.

I asked my sports med doctor and my concussion physio about it and they both said I didn't sustain another concussion, although the discussion was highly focused on the incidents and now how bad I felt. My neruo optometrist said it's possible to get visual snow without another concussion, but wasn't sure if I sustained another one.

I can attach my day to day notes on symptoms and how I felt if that'd help too.

Thank you so much for any input you have, if I'm tweaking please tell me but I'm genuinely concerned

Thank you very much for clicking, I hope you're doing well.

To preface: 2 days before this happened, I had 2 minor flare ups due to me spiking my heart rate too high at the gym, and going all out on the buffalo treadmill test. I've gotten both flare ups from tapping my chin and anxiety/stress induced ones in the past.

My concussion happened on Oct 9 2025, I have PCS. On Mar 2 2026 I was doing incline bench, and when I leaned back I bumped the upper back part of my head on the bench. I thought I had abit more room till my head was at the bench but I guess I didn't, I just felt fine from it, then when I moved to a different exercise I was thinking about it and wondering if I should be worried about it.

Later that night I was laying down beside my partner we each have our own pillows and we also have a long body pillow ontop of our top of our 2 pillows. I'm laying on my back in between them (so my head is on my pillow, and the body pillow is on my face), and my partner is propped up on her pillow and the body pillow, when she's done reading she pulls the body pillow to try and put it in between us, but essentially pulls it across my face hard, hitting the side of my head. I felt really worried and upset about it.

The next 5 days or so I was feeling significantly worse, if my concussion was 8/10 this would be a 7/10 but for sure the worst flare up I've had. I had a bad headache, my whole scalp felt like it was burning, issues stumbling over words, screen time tolerance went down alot, my vision was worse (my vision has been in and out since the concussion but it was definitely worse post these incidents) and I now have alittle of visual snow. It took me about 4-5 weeks to come to a new baseline with some of these symptoms only lasting a couple weeks and others staying longer, my baseline is worse off than before these incidents took place. I was really and anxious and stressed about this for about 6 weeks.

I asked my sports med doctor and my concussion physio about it and they both said I didn't sustain another concussion, although the discussion was highly focused on the incidents and now how bad I felt. My neruo optometrist said it's possible to get visual snow without another concussion, but wasn't sure if I sustained another one.

I can attach my day to day notes on symptoms and how I felt if that'd help too.

Thank you so much for any input you have, if I'm tweaking please tell me but I'm genuinely concerned