If you get a concussion will it affect you forever?

Answer 1

Most isolated simple concussions will resolve without significant long term problems, however, unlucky people may have damage from a concussion leading to chronic inner ear imbalance, benign positional vertigo, headaches, or a lightheaded or unfocused feeling. These issues are mostly seen in people with multiple concussions, such as those related to sports such as boxing, soccer, and football leading to the term punch drunk.

Symptoms from a concussion that do not improve or worsen should lead to urgent neurological evaluation to ule out issues such as subdural hematoma.


Once you have one concussion, you are more likely to get another, or have a relapse from activities that only rattle their brains a bit. I had one patient with multiple concussions from. cage fighting, improve almost to baseline, only to relapse from roller coaster riding.

Answer 2

Depending on how damage your brain is will affect your life style in living if its really serious you wont be to do much things like activies, sports, learning, seeing, hearing, speaking and so on and if its not that bad than you still have a chance of learning and do some few activities.

Answer 3

It is not life threatening if it is minor.

Answer 4

It can cause memory loss and ........Now what was I saying?