I had a bad fall - headlong down 13 (!) steps, severely wrecking a wrist, breaking 2 ribs and then banging my forehead three times on the tiled floor.
Memory loss of about 5 hours, no loss of consciousness but repetitive question on a few minute loop for several hours, no brain bleed on the scan.
Hospital was not very interested in the concussion. As others have said, no one warned me new symptoms would develop or how overwhelming it could be. A sheet of paper with a link to Headway and its helpline would have been a Godsend, in A&E and in the Fracture Clinic - by the time I was an outpatient there I was stammering, dizzy and in a wheelchair, shaking and with a badly jarred neck - but any mention of concussion was brushed away with "we're orthopaedics".
One symptom, which I have had 3 times, is when my underlying brain goes into a kind of meltdown, under stress or more precisely, when high stress stops. I shake violently, can barely walk, my blood pressure soars and I weep uncontrollably.
It happened when the hospital physios mafe me climb a staircase - I melted down at the top. It happened after the wrist plaster came off, and after a rushed tube journey.
I assume these are common, ?? but I was not warned.
Under stress, especially on medical appointments, I begin to stammer again.
i take a stick and sunglasses on the tube - the very bright lights and shaking motion are hated by my subconscious brain. It has been 10 weeks and is slowly improving, but lurking.
I am writing this to say thankyou for Headway, the best document I found online - after 10 weeks of worry.
And also in case it helps anyone in future to hear their symptoms described.