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Topic Title: Vertigo
Topic Summary: Yes, it's an old people topic, but if you ever get it you'll be glad to have some reference
Created On: 05/10/2019 04:54 PM
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moody

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So I've spent the past two months dealing with...

Vertigo from hell. Everyone says - oh, go get the crystals in your ears realigned, it fixed me right up. I didn't have that sort of vertigo (BPPV) - what I had was viral vestibulitis, which kind of goes away on its own timetable.

I had to have every test known to man to eliminate all the other things it could be (MRI - at first they were thinking I was having a stroke, so they hospitalized me, which was scary, then annoying when it wasn't a stroke, but hey, if it HAD been...).

Then lots of hearing testing to eliminate meniere's disease (from the surfing I have a bit of tinnitus so that was a red herring), and finally, they just decided that it was vestibulitis when they couldn't find anything else.

So I ended up with a month of PT to help me learn to walk again and compensate for it (it was bad enough that at its worst, I was clinging to the bed trying to keep it from throwing me off).

PT was not a lot of fun. They make you dizzy and force your brain to learn to cope with it. Eventually, strangely enough, your brain kind of gives up and does. I'm about 95% better now, even though I'm not "cured." I'm still doing my exercises, and trying to regain my strength.

If you have BPPV, get to a PT quickly; they can fix you fairly fast, but even if you can't be fixed, they CAN do something about it, even if it's not pleasant. I rode my bike for the first time this week, and paddled my board in the pool (old board). I will hopefully try going out on a calm day to paddle around in the kiddie pool soon; hopefully I can cope with the wave motion ok. If not, oh well, I'll keep working on it.

Apparently this is common - I've talked to a lot of people who have had it. It's isolating as heck though. I haven't even been able to drive myself for a month and a half. I can finally drive again, at least. I thought I was going to have to file for disability, and it was a bit scary. If you ever get it, feel free to drop me a line because this was not an easy thing to go through (not as bad as the Pulmonary Embolism I had a few years ago, of course) but it's an ongoing series of problems. The PE I was just going to die or not die - this was really debilitating and affected my ability to work, and may affect my ability to surf, which is why I'm posting it here.

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