I'm 4 months out from my third concussion. Im mostly experiencing headaches and brain fog (especially on screens). I've seen a physical therapist, concussion clinic, and eye doctor and now a neurologist. I took around a month and a half off of work because I was having so many issues, I've been part time back for a couple months now.
I been to so many doctors and a lot of them say completely different things. This neurologist told me I can push myself with screens and it will not impact recovery at all. She also recommend headache medicine and at least 10 hours of sleep a night. I've heard mixed things about pushing yourself so that's my main question. I've just been doing a combination of the two, but I'm wondering if pushing myself will help with my headaches over time. I've heard many different opinions on this sub as well.
Also two very interesting things she told me that conflict many things i've heard from other doctors. She told me that you only need maximum a day or two of rest after a concussion, more than that is overkill for all concussions. She also told me that if you get one concussion, you are never more susceptible to another concussion. This makes no sense to me, as I would hit my head playing sports really hard as a kid and never got a concussion, but now every major bump has given me a concussion once I got one. Also, I've heard that rest needed depends on the concussion. She told me that mainly genetics play a factor into this.
I do trust her in some regards, just due to the amount of schooling required to be a neurologist, but I am wondering of your guys' thoughts on this. I've seen a lot of posts where people tell people not to push themselves months out and hopefully sharing this information will be helpful to some people. I'm not sure what's true or not at this point though.