Saturday, March 27, 2010

Health Update-a Swiftly Tilting Floor...

Haven't written in a while.  Basically, too tired to do it.  Today I feel like I'm on a boat and I most assuredly am not on any seafaring vessel at all.  I keep having these weird moments where it feels like the floor just suddenly tilted and then it will suddently feel as if it is tilting the other way.  Very disconcerting.  For example, last evening, I walked out onto our front porch which is basically a covered deck.  I immediately grabbed onto the railing because I felt like the porch was moving.  I was so convinced that it must be vibrations from either my dog or my children that I told my husband that surely he must feel it too.  He did not.  I was working on accepting this as another step in my "retrain my brain therapy" and then had a scary thought came to mind.  I've read of people with Meniere's reaching the endpoint of their condition where they are left with drop attacks.  These are the kind of attacks where you are suddenly without any warning thrown violently to the floor.  It's not vertigo but it is extremely dangerous.  Many people end up with black eyes, broken bones, bruises, etc.  Also, from what I understand the only cure for this is a VNS (Vestibular Nerve Section) where they cut the nerve in the offending ear completely.  I really hope I'm wrong about this.  I do plan on talking to my doctor about it when I see him again on April 20th.  If things get worse before then, I'll call his office and see what, if anything, can be done in the meantime. 

I have had some good days though.  I've been able to take the kids to the park a couple days.  It's hard to remember that now though when I feel so "swimmy-headed."

***not long after I typed this, I went to take a shower and this weird feeling happened again but with more intensity.  I felt like the shower floor was giving way beneath me.  Then it would feel like the shower was some kind of giant swing and my body was swinging/falling side to side and back and forth.  There was no visual changes and no spinning.  Afterwards, I was extremely dizzy and barely able to make it to bed.  I took a Klonopin and a Valium and felt "normal" within an hour or so.  What are these things and what the heck do they mean?

No comments:

Post a Comment