Knew it was coming but didn't expect it to hit quite this hard. My ENT always says the holidays are the worst on people with Meniere's. I don't know if tired would even describe it. We have had something going on for days now. I just now finished my last family gathering for Christmas. Now don't get me wrong, I am soooo grateful to spend the holidays with such wonderful people and to be surrounded by such love but it has taken it's toll. Yesterday, after the kids got up at 7:15 full of wonder and awe that Santa came, we played and had a great time for hours. Then I felt myself crashing and went to take a nap and slept for 2 hours. Then I ended up with a migraine, not a bad one, but still a migraine. I was really hoping that quitting the birth control pills would've helped that by now. I guess it could be they need more time to get out of my system. Slept for about 11 hours last night. Woke up still exhausted but drug myself out for our last family get together. It was loud, noisy, but good to see everyone. Now, I'm home and my kids are riding their new scooters back and forth in the house (I know...I'm insane, but it's been raining and they can't go outside) and the noise and motion may send me over the edge. I'm reaching the point where I have to decide how much do I let my disease affect them. Do I make them quit because I'm miserable? Doesn't seem exactly fair. It's another one of the subtle nuances of this damned disease that people don't get. My children shouldn't have to suffer because of it. I already have to tell them enough to "keep it down" or "that hurts mommy's ears." Most likely what will end up happening is I'll end up back in my bedroom away from all the noise and chatter because my ears feel like they just cannot process anymore information. How can I go back to work if I can only get through 3 days of activity at a time before I collapse and need days to recuperate? The bright side is at least I'm getting through 3 days. Hopefully, my strength is slowly building back up.
I really am becoming more and more suspicious that I have Migraine Associated Vertigo. I'm starting to think that the Shunt Revision surgery did help the Meniere's. I'm not nearly as off-balance as I was and the spins are better. It's the constant motion sickness, dizziness, nausea, and headaches that are really aggravating me right now. I'm just not sure what to do about it at this point. My first step was to quit the b.c. pills. I guess I'll go through with the hysterectomy. I also think I'm going to pursue some more chiropractic treatment. My headaches start in my upper neck at the base of my skull and then sometimes move to above one of my eyes and most of the time it continues on to include pain all through my neck and upper back. I can feel it getting worse now. When I've seen the chiropractor before for this, it does help. The headaches/neck ache/muscle pain disappears with one or two treatments. Problem is they keep returning. I can't afford to keep going back as much as I need to. I need to find the trigger for all this, get back on my feet (literally) and get back to life.
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Hi Nicki,
ReplyDeleteI have had a headache too since yesterday. althought I think mine is due to my blood pressure being too high.
Neck pain is common with mm patients I know that I have had problems with it too. in my case I sometimes hold my head too rigidly worrying that any sudden movement might bring on an attack. I have been told that movement doesn't bring on a meniere's attack but sometimes I think it does.
I know that it is difficult to handle meniere's but hang in there it will get better.
David