Prompts and a follow-up

[stgulik]

I got my assignment from the sshg_promptfest today! It wasn't my first choice, but it was a very close second, and I'm stoked.

nagandsev asked for an update after my doctor visit. I'm reluctant to bore you with details, so here are the headlines. The doc says the inner ear is still out of whack after the fall. Something about, there is sand in the tubes of your ears that helps you keep your balance. In my case, the sand shifted and hasn't shifted back yet. This condition can't be fixed. I'll just have to put up with the occasional vertigo until/unless the sand shifts back one day.

Then I saw a hearing specialist who told me my hearing is normal for someone my age, but that I have tinnitus and it can't be fixed until/unless it goes away on its own. She suggested I find ways to forget the noise is happening. Oh, okay! No problem!

Results were unsatisfying, to say the least. I'm still deciding whether to accept them with good grace. I imagine this is what middle age has in store for me - little tiny symptoms caused by little tiny problems. And doctors who say, "The body was only meant to live about forty years. Evolution has not yet caught up to the phenomenon of the HMO. So go home and take vitamins, and enjoy your borrowed time."

Comments

[beffeysue.livejournal.com]

My daughter had a bad case of vertigo, and the doctor used the Epley maneuver. Worked like a charm... but it included the full 48 hour follow-through of keeping her head in a vertical position. The doctor told her she could buy a collar, or she could roll-up a thick towel longways and put it around her neck and tying the "ends" together where they crossed under her chin with twine.

This is the exact procedure my daughter had when she had treatment for a persistant case of vertigo:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YK2Zj_TrBhE

These are also helpful websites:

BENIGN PAROXYSMAL POSITIONAL VERTIGO
http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/bppv.html

WebMD has a good article:
http://www.webmd.com/brain/tc/benign-paroxysmal-positional-vertigo-bppv-topic-overview

I hope you'll soon get over this vertigo.
((hugs))

[stgulik.livejournal.com]

Thank you very much! These were wonderfully informative. I feel like there's hope.

[beffeysue.livejournal.com]

I hope you're able to get some relief soon!!!

[nagandsev.livejournal.com]

Just another big 'thank you!', beffeysue, for sharing these links! They're wonderfully informative and just what the doctor ordered; but sorry that your daughter had to go through this; hope she is all well!<3

[beffeysue.livejournal.com]

It's been many years since she had vertigo, and she hasn't had a bad problem since. I think that she had a touch of it once when she had a bad cold/ear infection a few years ago, but it didn't last long at all.

[nagandsev.livejournal.com]

Yay! So glad that it's not chronic/reoccuring--again, thank you for these links, they're so useful, with exact information and demonstration--it's great to be able to read up on various possibilities (and I was surprised by how (unfortunately) common it can be if someone's had a head injury, etc.). <3