Hi Bianca-Jane,

You need to be very careful with your condition and take resting and getting better seriously. Above all, don't get impatient risk making yourself worse by returning to your normal activities too quickly.

The brain is a delicate and mysterious organ that recovers slowly. If your head is swimming and you feel exhausted you just have to rest and that's an end to it. You might not notice an improvement every day.

I had a concussion and I noticed an improvement on the first day and the second day, but then it was an improvement every week, then it got to months, then years.

Today is actually the four year anniversary of the injury and now I am still trying to make an improvement year by year.

Now, your condition might clear up in a week but the first doctor that I saw thought it would be a week also. He was wrong. This is not uncommon.

So, most conditions of this type do apparently clear up in six months or even sooner, so you should definitely hope to be in this category and do all that you can to not be in the category of those of us who have to endure the condition as best we can for years.

So even though it's been four days that you have suffered with this and you might be getting fed up of that, take a longer-term perspective and realize that even a short time of illness won't be so bad if the rest of your life can be healthy. So I would strongly advise not doing any energetic activities that might involve jerking your head around, not playing any high impact sports and rest so that your brain has a chance to recover.

The trouble is that people do not realize how serious a blow to the head can be.

Also, I stopped driving for months. My reasoning was that if I had felt that woozy and dizzy from drinking, I would definitely not have considered myself safe to drive. If you feel like that then perhaps you should not drive either. You will probably know yourself when you feel safe to start driving again. For me it was several months and when I did start again it felt strange the first time out. So it might be an idea for the first drive to be cautious.

If you find that your symptoms persist for a while then there is more info available on this site.

Good luck and let us know how you get on.

Concussed Scientist