How Do Setbacks Work?
 

So basically, I was feeling the best I've felt in months. My headache was a one and i didn't feel any effects of vertigo or the vision issues... ect. I walk into my Girlfriends house and immediately it's very loud there and i start getting bumped around a little bit. This triggered a very mild headache that lasted an hour until i tried to go on a longish walk like I normally would of been able to do by this point. I started feeling a little weird but not that much worse. About 2 hours later I do some other physical activity and my headache is immediately and severely worsened. So I try to sit down for a bit and its not seeming to get better, by this point the vertigo is back and so are the vision issues and sometimes the nausea. The headache ends up spiking to a 9 by the time the night is over and it becomes one of the worse days of my recent existence.

So to give you a time-frame, this happened 5 days ago. It was gradually getting better with rest and reduced screen time. Today i still feel awful and my headache spiked back up to that nine after playing a little bit of guitar. Normally its pretty low and the entire day up to a couple ours ago was fine. But then i take a walk and it helps trigger these headaches.

So what I'm asking is, are these setbacks harmful to my recovery besides the obvious pain they bring. Also, Why is this setback lasting so long? I'm getting pretty warn out on this and I want to know what I'm facing.

Sincerely, Gabe :hug:

Setbacks are not harmful.

But, they teach us lessons. Your lesson is to avoid loud environments. This may be a trigger that you struggle with for a long time. For some of us, we never get to a point where we can tolerate loud chaotic sounds.

A simple explanation, "I'm sorry. I cannot be in this noise and bumping." and leaving quickly. For me, I can tell when I am exhausting my short tolerance for the loud and chaos. My wife can read it on my face. If we are in a loud restaurant reading menus, she will look at my face and see my struggle to focus on the menu and suggest we leave.

Gabe,

I can’t tell you how setbacks work nor can I tell you the how’s or why’s of some.

Some are identifiable if you pay attention you will begin to notice patterns.

As Mark says you can either modify or avoid such things.

I remember well the frustrations of the unexplainable or even sometimes simple
normal life things that started those silly spirals down for a day or two. It does get better starting with farther between incidents then one day you are bebopping along and realize nothings happened for quite awhile.

I still have moments where I am caught off guard by a reaction to something 4 years after my accident now. The good news is they are no longer scary and simply removing myself from the situation for even a few minutes to collect myself makes all the difference, usually it’s noise for me also.

Bud