Vertigo

Many moons ago I went on a trip to the Bahamas. It was lovely and my friends and I did a ton of great stuff. Of course we flew down, then we took several boat rides and one Booze Cruise where we ended up snorkeling. Problem is my body did’t really like all that stuff and I developed a horrendous case of vertigo.

When I say horrendous, I mean majorly bad, bedridden for 2 weeks, can’t even cook for myself, kind of vertigo. And once you get vertigo you are more susceptible to getting it again. So that is what has happened to me. I keep getting bouts of vertigo. Sometimes they are brought on by a particular event such as a plane or boat ride, other times they seem to be connected to an illness, but once I learned about the vertigo exercises/maneuvers I have been able to mitigate the symptoms and return to a normal like.

Every time except this time.

Right now I’m suffering from a pretty bad case of vertigo. It seems to have started about a month ago, with occasional, short lived bouts that didn’t require any maneuvers to correct the problem. Then about 2 weeks ago it started to get worse. Of course that was when I had to go to Chicago for the Autism One conference. Having been on the plane I suspected that was the problem, but I also caught a cold. I tried the Epley maneuver several times but nothing helped. I took over the counter Dramamine just to see if I could get it under control, but all that did was make me tired.

When I got home from the trip I was a mess. I slept almost constantly for 2 whole days. Finally I went to see my doctor and she said she had no idea why I was feeling so dizzy. I did not appear to have the typical vertigo. She has now recommended I go to see a neurologist that specializes in vertigo.

As I wait for that appointment I decided to try our acupuncturist. He provided me with a little improvement but feels that I will need an additional treatment to get it back to normal. I surely hope he knows what he is doing because this is getting to be crazy. It is impacting my life and the life of my family. My husband has had to take over a ton of the work because I just can’t do it. I can barely keep up with normal activities.

And I’m scared of what the neurologist might say. I hate that I often go to the worst place, but I do. So now I just wait for all my appointments and pray someone can fix me up right fast.