What Injury might my daughter have caused to her head?

My 19 year old daughter was in the car last Friday, my son was driving her. She wanted to go and stop at a store to pay her cell phone bill. My son needed gas and told her that she would have to wait a few minutes until he went to the gas station. My daughter then picked up a full bottle of water my son keeps in the car, threw a temper tantrum, and beat herself in the head with the bottle.



She began complaining Sunday of a bad headache. Wednesday night my son drove her to the ER. My daughter did NOT tell them there she got injured by hitting herself with a water bottle, she just said that she ran into the wall. The doctor there just felt her head, and said that there was some bruising. My daughter never had a black and blue mark, nor did she get black eyes or any other bruise marks. The ER doctor sent her home with a prescription for painkillers.



My daughter still has a headache, (the only symptom she developed). She keeps complaining about a bad headache. I told her to go to our doctor, but she said if she does, she won't tell her how she got the injury, and still say she just hit the wall, which won't help.



Does anyone know what a very bad headache, with no other symptoms after a head injury means? (Yes, and I know my daughter is an idiot and spoiled brat, she was my late husband's favorite, and he spoiled her, gave her anything she wanted, and did everything for her. Now he's dead and I have this spoiled brat on my hands. She does have a job, and at work she is one of the best workers there...they get 5 dollar off coupons every time a customer emails the store and compliments a worker, in one month alone she earned $250.00 dollars worth. She gets at least $125.00 in coupons a month. But she is terrible at home.)What Injury might my daughter have caused to her head?
It will not effect the doctor's treatment of your daughter if she is not fully open about how she hit her head. The doctors will treat her symptoms that she currently has regardless of the method of her injury. If she is still having headaches after 7 days she needs to see a neurologist not a regular MD. They are the best for headaches and brain injuries.



The bad headache is one of the symptoms of a concussion. At this point, you are not worried about her dying. Symptoms would have shown up way before now with anything that bad. If she doesn't have any other symptoms then that is a positive sign.



Obviously your daughter has some growing up to do. But after reading about how brains work because of my own injury I have seen that the doctors through brain scans have determined that up to about the age of 25 kids are still making decisions with the emotional section of their brain rather than the executive functioning section of their brains. Having teens myself, this explains (not excuses) a lot of stupid behavior...