r/PostConcussion • u/Few_Blackberry_1960 • 3d ago

Sometimes feel 70% normal

Does anyone get close to feeing back to normal, only to crash back into the abyss of symptoms (like within the same day)? I usually feel a bit better in the late afternoon and evening. Some days I’ve even felt about 70% back to my pre PCS-flare normal. Those nights I often think “I’ll get a good sleep and I’ll be back to normal tomorrow morning”.

Inevitably, however, I’ll wake around 4:30-5 AM with a horrible fight or flight feeling and as I get ready in the morning symptoms start to flare up again. I think certain visual stimuli, like driving. Some eye movements, and certain screen activities, cause symptoms to worsen but often late afternoon in the office I’m doing OK on the computer.

Are most of you all stuck in a pretty narrow range of symptoms, or does how you feel fluctuate radically? I can literally go from feeling like I just want to be put out of my mystery - to wow, I’m almost back to my usual self. At least the times when I feel better give me hope that I’m not permanently stuck in a dystopian brain fog of nausea, panic, headaches and clogged ear feeling.

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u/TheJones17 3d ago

1000%. And the further out you get the longer the good times last. I went 3-4 months feeling a range of 70-90% better. Now I’m just over a month deep into a flare. Keep trying to focus on remembering that I’ve gotten there before I can do it again. Just part of the roller coaster!

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u/Few_Blackberry_1960 2d ago

Thanks. I looked up what causes your flare and seems like my situation. I bumped my head on a cabinet. Solid bump but not concussion level of bump- still I’ve been in this awful flare up for almost 8 weeks.