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Posted by Dinah on June 19, 2008, at 12:55:25
My life is always choppy to some extent. Because I have such a talent for and overreliance on dissociation as a coping technique, my life is always a bit disconnected.
But with the vertigo and then the migraines life is even choppier. I don't know how to describe it other than that. There just seems to be a disconnect between one segment of time and another. What I write at one moment, I barely remember at another. I think the not feeling well is acting like my forgetting sleeps.
It's frustrating and disorienting. Maybe when I trained my brain to go down certain paths, it starts taking those paths under any stress.
Posted by Tabitha on June 19, 2008, at 13:18:54
In reply to Feeling unwell is making my life choppier, posted by Dinah on June 19, 2008, at 12:55:25
My goodness, it does sound difficult to maintain a sense of continuity with those symptoms. I wish I could help.
Posted by Dinah on June 19, 2008, at 16:17:45
In reply to Re: Feeling unwell is making my life choppier » Dinah, posted by Tabitha on June 19, 2008, at 13:18:54
Yes, and I wonder how much is to be expected. It's frustrating though. I'm really hoping that the tests tomorrow show that I don't have the long term vertigo problem. Just the short term one with rare recurrence. I have limited ability to work under these circumstances, and without so many hours of work, I can't afford therapy.
And joy of joys, it turns out that my therapist's mother also had vertigo. I seem to be destined to push "mother" buttons in my therapist. Not that he put it that way of course.
Thanks Tabitha, and cross your fingers for me tomorrow.
Posted by raisinb on June 19, 2008, at 18:42:24
In reply to Feeling unwell is making my life choppier, posted by Dinah on June 19, 2008, at 12:55:25
I'm sorry, Dinah, I hope those symptoms lift soon. I think migraines are one of life's cruelest jokes. Have you gotten medication for them?
Posted by Phillipa on June 22, 2008, at 20:41:17
In reply to Re: Feeling unwell is making my life choppier » Dinah, posted by raisinb on June 19, 2008, at 18:42:24
Dinah can you take triptans? Hope tomorrow goes well for you too finger and toes crossed. Phillipa
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