Posted by Dinah on June 20, 2008, at 17:24:44
In reply to Re: I think it's gone!!!, posted by Dinah on June 11, 2008, at 7:55:30
I'm glad I kept the appointment, even tho I was feeling a lot better. There are several parts to this test, and depending on which parts you show abnormal results on, they can do a decent job of deciding what's wrong.
So for me, it seems I got some sort of viral infection, which was probably why I felt crummy for a while before the vertigo. Then the virus went to my inner ear and as a result, the right inner ear is weaker than the left. The imbalance causes the problem. But over time the brain compensates for the change. Like a recalibration based on the new sensory inputs. He gave me a bunch of exercises to speed up the compensation process.
The nice thing is that if I happen to bend over and feel dizzy, I don't feel scared. I don't think "oh no, i'm dizzy". I think "Oh good, another chance to calibrate my brain."
There's no way to put a cheerful spin on the headaches. After driving, or after a lot of work requiring reading, I get a headache from the strain of focusing because the inner ear has something to do with vision too. But he says that should go away over the next month or two.
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