Originally Posted by Vania

I am sorry that you are experiencing a setback. I just wanted to give you some reassurance that many of us are also experiencing relapses following innocuous events, that turn out in the vast majority of cases to be inconsequential. My last relapse a few weeks ago was triggered by something as insignificant as inadvertently hitting my head with an empty paper shopping bag (after being startled by a car alarm nearby).

There was clearly no damage done, but for 4-5 days it really felt like I had sustained another concussion - I had very strong symptoms. But the symptoms dissipated quickly and I went back to my PCs baseline. No one really knows why PCS makes us that sensitive - probably some combination of physical and psychological response.

I am confident you will get better very soon, and the less you focus on the event(s) the sooner it will happen. The wisdom here is that the best thing to do is to ignore these incidents as much as possible and go on with your life. These are annoyances, not life-changing events. See them as such.

Also, please post here again when you feel better. If you browse through NT you will see plenty of similar threads, for which we don't have the end of the story. I am pretty sure that this is because the OP just got better, forgot about the incident and did not report back. But clarifying that the setback did not have long-term consequences could perhaps be helpful for anxious readers who will read the thread in the future.

Take care.