[JBuckl]

I had a three month period of complete rest due to extreme sound sensitivity and migraines. An OT suggested listening to podcasts to help with the sound sens. and it worked like a miracle. I slowly got better and managed to graduate high school.

But I'm in a similar place again--about two years after the injuries. College slowly made me worse and worse this fall and this spring has been very up and down with no progress. It seems I need to spend most of the day in the room to function just a little. In my good stretches, I overdo it, despite feeling good and improving, and I have to start back at complete rest.

I saw a new dr. today at a new hospital who wants me to ween off earplugs and sunglasses. She says the complete rest stuff isn't the best. I believe her, but I feel like I'm really pushing through symptoms when I get out and it just sets me back worse.

She wants me to do a neuro-psych eval, which I've never had in the 2 years w/ pcs. Also, she wants me to do vision therapy. She says my symptoms--light and sound sens., reading problems--sound like the vision part of the brain.

I've been doing functional neurology exercises--many are vision related. With the objective data of retesting, I should be doing a lot better, but I really don't feel like it.

Back to my question, though, how much rest is too much and how do you find the line between doing too much and too little?