Can tapping your head hard with your fingers cause a concussion? I’ve had two mild concussions over the past four months. While I was at the hair salon, the stylist was tapping my head pretty hard while blow-drying my hair. Maybe I’m overreacting, maybe not—I’d like to hear your thoughts on this.

Throwaway, 24M, \~75kg, active (cycling). Posting because I can’t tell what to do.

**First incident (\~2 months ago):** Stood up fast from a low wooden stump and cracked the back-top of my head (parietal area) on a wooden plank. No loss of consciousness, no vomiting. That day I felt dazed, irritable, mild pressure in the middle of my skull, trouble concentrating. That night I fell asleep fine but woke after 3-4 hours and couldn’t get back down. Concentration came back within \~2 days. The sleep problems lasted about a week, then suddenly normalized back to exactly how it was before the injury — and I felt like a new person, completely back to myself. The whole thing fully resolved.

**Second incident (\~7 days ago):** I was stretched back reaching behind me in a car, and as I came back forward to sitting, I moved my head back and clipped the side/upper-back of it on the hard edge of an upright sun visor. Much lower energy than the first one. No cognitive symptoms at all this time — talked with people normally right after, no disorientation, no speech issues. But the sleep thing came back: hard to initiate sleep, waking early and not getting back down. Had one episode of sudden dizziness + mild nausea around day 4-5 that cleared completely after sleeping.

**Where I’m at now (day 7):** Sleep is up and down. One night was basically normal — fell asleep quick, woke at a normal time. Next night back to struggling. The weird part: my body feels tired but my head just won’t switch off and go to sleep. Not racing thoughts, it just doesn’t shut down. Worst part is early morning — I wake up and that’s it, sometimes only get back to sleep lying on my stomach.
**My question:** Does it make sense that the *milder* hit is giving me a *longer* sleep recovery than the harder one did? My theory is the first injury lowered the threshold in that specific system (sleep regulation) so a weaker knock set it off again. Cognitive stuff is 100% fine this time — it’s purely the sleep that lingers.
Anyone with concussion/TBI experience seen this pattern? Supplementing omega-3, magnesium, black seed oil. Not using an alarm so the wake times float a bit.
Thanks for reading.

Throwaway, 24M, ~75kg, active (cycling). Posting because I can’t tell what to do.

First incident (~2 months ago): Stood up fast from a low wooden stump and cracked the back-top of my head (parietal area) on a wooden plank. No loss of consciousness, no vomiting. That day I felt dazed, irritable, mild pressure in the middle of my skull, trouble concentrating. That night I fell asleep fine but woke after 3-4 hours and couldn’t get back down. Concentration came back within ~2 days. The sleep problems lasted about a week, then suddenly normalized back to exactly how it was before the injury — and I felt like a new person, completely back to myself. The whole thing fully resolved.

Second incident (~7 days ago): I was stretched back reaching behind me in a car, and as I came back forward to sitting, I moved my head back and clipped the side/upper-back of it on the hard edge of an upright sun visor. Much lower energy than the first one. No cognitive symptoms at all this time — talked with people normally right after, no disorientation, no speech issues. But the sleep thing came back: hard to initiate sleep, waking early and not getting back down. Had one episode of sudden dizziness + mild nausea around day 4-5 that cleared completely after sleeping.

Where I’m at now (day 7): Sleep is up and down. One night was basically normal — fell asleep quick, woke at a normal time. Next night back to struggling. The weird part: my body feels tired but my head just won’t switch off and go to sleep. Not racing thoughts, it just doesn’t shut down. Worst part is early morning — I wake up and that’s it, sometimes only get back to sleep lying on my stomach.
My question: Does it make sense that the milder hit is giving me a longer sleep recovery than the harder one did? My theory is the first injury lowered the threshold in that specific system (sleep regulation) so a weaker knock set it off again. Cognitive stuff is 100% fine this time — it’s purely the sleep that lingers.
Anyone with concussion/TBI experience seen this pattern? Supplementing omega-3, magnesium, black seed oil. Not using an alarm so the wake times float a bit.
Thanks for reading.

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This is a bit of a long post, so thank you for taking the time to read it:

Three days ago, while getting up from a low wooden stump, I hit the back of my head—specifically the parietal bone—against a wooden plank.

That same day, I felt irritated and slightly dazed; I could feel that the central part of my skull was slightly warm and tense for some time, but then shortly after its dissapeared. Sitting on computer I had small problem with concentration. That same night, I fell asleep but woke up after a few hours and couldn’t fall back asleep; everything seemed okay, except for a slight sense of derealization? I had to watch out for cars in the parking lot more than usual; I drove home and went to sleep shortly after, but then I woke up again a few hours later and couldn’t fall back asleep; the symptoms had subsided a bit, Three days after the incident, I managed to fall back asleep (I don’t know for how long, but I managed to do so after waking up). I feel better than in the previous days but a bit tired, walking with slightly worse balance. There’s also a chance that I’m paying too much attention to this as I very care about my brain power and cognitive capacity, and it’s a placebo effect.

After reading all this, is it something to worry about or should I just give it a few days to regenerate, what advice could you give me?