Dizziness & Vertigo Support Group
Dizziness is the sensation of instability. Vertigo refers to dizziness with a sensation of motion. Vertigo is more likely than other types of dizziness to be associated with nausea, vomiting, or double vision, to occur even when lying down, and to feel better with the eyes closed. If you are a frequent sufferer of dizziness or vertigo, join the group and find support.
Hello!
I am posting in case someone is in the same situation as I.
I have experienced severe vertigo previously, probably about 15 years ago. Completely different than this time. It was sudden attacks of such, that would hit with NO WARNING and would cause instaneous, severe, uncontrollable vomitting and diarhea. Ick, I know. I would go to the ER, be given a shot & meclizine, and be ok the next day. It would hit on an average of once every couple of months. I was also given antibiotics numerous times. Then, while in a DDS office waiting on a friend, I read how sometimes tooth extractions could cause your sinuses to open, infect, & cause vertigo. I had just had a tooth extracted shortly before my vertigo started! So, the next attack, I mentioned this to the ER doctor and he prescribed me with a heavier dosage of antibiotics...stronger AND 21 days. (the others were 3, 5, 7!) NO MORE VERTIGO.
Present day. Woke one day feeling a bit loopy. Not quite the same...the 1st time, everything around me was spinning uncontrollably. This time, it feels *I* am the one moving. I go to Urgent Care because I am a Cochlear Implant recipient now, and we do not risk Inner Ear infections (or any ear infection!) with an implant! She says NO to antibiotics (grr!) and sends me home with meclizine. Boo Hiss. I go to ER several days later when no change has occurred; it actually has worsened. This is 24/7. I am comfortable focussing on tv, the computer, laying down...but it is still THERE. The ER does a CT scan and rules out brain issues. My Blood Pressure is sky high...but DUH...I am STRESSED from this! They send me home with a 'script for Valium and more Meclizine. *sigh* A call to my ENT and they say DO NOT TAKE THE MECLIZINE. They are very anti-mec! I visit him and he says ANTIBIOTICS...SUPER ANTIBIOTICS, actually! And Valium as needed. He schedules me for ENG testing. He says if it is gone, I can cancel such. Well, took my last antibiotic this morning and it is NOT GONE. ;( I have basically learned to live with it. I am driving (if not taking Valium) and I am doing as much as I can in my normal days routine. But it is looming there over me...this constant feeling of DIZZY. UGH. The ENG testing happens this week, but I am getting scared. Meniere's is moot cause I already have a hereditary nerve deafness in my family and have been deaf for a LONG time. I hear now with my CI. MS scares the crap out of me. What else is there? They seem to know so little, yet they say they see people so often for this...."especially during sinus season." Well, I have ALWAYS had chronic, year round sinus issues. But again, I refuse to feel crappy so I just live with it. I never let it knock me down. I am a high tolerant of pain sort.
So that is it in a nutshell! UGH! Suggestions. Comparisons. Anything!
I am posting in case someone is in the same situation as I.
I have experienced severe vertigo previously, probably about 15 years ago. Completely different than this time. It was sudden attacks of such, that would hit with NO WARNING and would cause instaneous, severe, uncontrollable vomitting and diarhea. Ick, I know. I would go to the ER, be given a shot & meclizine, and be ok the next day. It would hit on an average of once every couple of months. I was also given antibiotics numerous times. Then, while in a DDS office waiting on a friend, I read how sometimes tooth extractions could cause your sinuses to open, infect, & cause vertigo. I had just had a tooth extracted shortly before my vertigo started! So, the next attack, I mentioned this to the ER doctor and he prescribed me with a heavier dosage of antibiotics...stronger AND 21 days. (the others were 3, 5, 7!) NO MORE VERTIGO.
Present day. Woke one day feeling a bit loopy. Not quite the same...the 1st time, everything around me was spinning uncontrollably. This time, it feels *I* am the one moving. I go to Urgent Care because I am a Cochlear Implant recipient now, and we do not risk Inner Ear infections (or any ear infection!) with an implant! She says NO to antibiotics (grr!) and sends me home with meclizine. Boo Hiss. I go to ER several days later when no change has occurred; it actually has worsened. This is 24/7. I am comfortable focussing on tv, the computer, laying down...but it is still THERE. The ER does a CT scan and rules out brain issues. My Blood Pressure is sky high...but DUH...I am STRESSED from this! They send me home with a 'script for Valium and more Meclizine. *sigh* A call to my ENT and they say DO NOT TAKE THE MECLIZINE. They are very anti-mec! I visit him and he says ANTIBIOTICS...SUPER ANTIBIOTICS, actually! And Valium as needed. He schedules me for ENG testing. He says if it is gone, I can cancel such. Well, took my last antibiotic this morning and it is NOT GONE. ;( I have basically learned to live with it. I am driving (if not taking Valium) and I am doing as much as I can in my normal days routine. But it is looming there over me...this constant feeling of DIZZY. UGH. The ENG testing happens this week, but I am getting scared. Meniere's is moot cause I already have a hereditary nerve deafness in my family and have been deaf for a LONG time. I hear now with my CI. MS scares the crap out of me. What else is there? They seem to know so little, yet they say they see people so often for this...."especially during sinus season." Well, I have ALWAYS had chronic, year round sinus issues. But again, I refuse to feel crappy so I just live with it. I never let it knock me down. I am a high tolerant of pain sort.
So that is it in a nutshell! UGH! Suggestions. Comparisons. Anything!
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Laura
Thanks for your reply! I have been under the care of my Cochlear Implant team the entire time. I also had a CT scan; the appropriate alternate to an MRI since I cannot have an MRI. =) My brain appears "normal."
I know many CI-ers through the SWC (Say What Club) and others..several of my family members have them. I do not think the CI is the CAUSE, I just think it adds danger or more risk to the equation; especially if dealing with infection. This is why my CI Doc gave me antibiotics, when no one else would!
My mother has the Nucleus...she is on her THIRD actually! I went with Advanced Bionics. =) I was told that, while my magnet is not removable, the CT scan is a suitable alternate testing method. Who wants to have to remove their magnet & have it reimplanted? Not for something like vertigo, at least...but I guess if it were serious enough of an issue, you would not care.
I will try and keep you updated! I am more frustrated now, because my insurance does not cover the ENG testing I was supposed to have because it is billed under an Audiology code, instead of an ENT code. Stupid, huh??