Lately I've been thinking about setbacks in my progress, I've had plenty of them. My setbacks come with no warning signs, they just hit me out of the blue if I try to do anything which my brain deems is too much. This generally takes me around a month to recover from and it happens time and again with no way for me to measure how much is too much activity. One moment I'm fine, I'll go asleep that night, wake up in a fever, feeling very weird and sick. Boom, here we go again!

With setbacks it feels like, at times, that my progress has been set back to when I was first injured. But surely this can't be the case? if this isn't the case, why does it feel like my injury is a fresh one, rather than 14 months old?

Also, if I can stop these setbacks happening at all, ie I live like a monk and stare at the ceiling for a few months (this generally makes my symptoms vanish) if I can hold this "symptom free state" for a long time, does this generally make pcs more likely to be gone for good?

This is the most sneaky, frustrating and random injury ever. Highly annoying.