[TheNorwegian]

Hello everybody,

Things were going pretty good but now I have relapsed.

Last week was busy but I didnt think much of it because I have done pretty well for the last couple of month as long as I get a good night of sleep, eat healthy and stick to my routine of walking etc (and dont bump my head).

Friday I went to a dinner at my employers home. I was there for 7 hours talking to my colleagues, and there was music (not that loud). Things were going well but I noticed that my head was feeling worse around 11 pm and went home. I was home in bed at 1:00 am.

The next morning I was not good and I tried to realx as much as possible, but I had 18 family members coming for christmas dinner (my grilfriend invited them and basically made everything). For 5 hours there were in my apartment and there was a lot of loud noise. At some point I noticed that the noise had changed - and that is normally not a good sign. Noises that normally is to loud for me, wasnt bothering me but I was having a small headache.

My family left but my brother had forgot his phone. It was ringing and I took it to my ear, and the volume when he spoke was very high so it imediately got pain in my ear (I have a big problems with loud noises - especially when close to my ears).

Since then a lot of the concussion symptoms have returned. I have pain in my ears, I cant concentrate, my head feels like a cotton ball, I have a tension headache, feel dizzy and nauseous and very sound sensitive.

I fear that this is not one of my normal setbacks that usually takes 4-7 days but that this is a full relapse. I fear that because I had stressed the system with music, staying up late, been very social for many hours etc, then my brain could not tolerate the loud noise when my brother said "Hello" in the phone very close to my ear (I know it sounds silly).

Last time I had a relapse because of a loud noise to my ear was new years eve and it took me 4 months to get better, but this was also only 1 month after my concussion (november last year).

So I had hoped that because the concussion was so long ago, and because I had gotten so much better and could tolerate so much more - that this couldnt happen.

I hope the above makes sense and my question is, should I expect a full relapse? Have you tried something similar - how did you handle it, and how long before it got better? How is it that this keeps happening? And what would you do now, if you were me? I am working full time which makes it all very difficult!

And a warning to everybody! Christmas is coming, which is nice, but remember not to overdo things, although it is tempting - you risk ending up like me!!!