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01-03-12 | 09:24 PM

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merlin55

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you need to find a Neuro ENT, one that deals with balance issues....good luck call the ENT and get the appointment moved up ASAP

01-05-12 | 06:16 AM

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After bunch of tests in Doc's office the diagnosis is labyrinthitis. Basically, the recovery consists of two processes - actual healing of damage and brain retraining itself to compensate for lost/diminished function (whether it is lost temporarily or permanently). While former may take three months, six months or never, brain retraining greatly improved by staying as active as possible. I should be functioning normally in another two to three weeks.

Good luck to me.

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01-05-12 | 10:05 AM

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I have been fighting this since y2K when I suffered heat stroke. Most of the time it is just to the point of annoying but not debilitating. I have found that a motion sickness otc medication stops it quickly and never go anywhere without some of those. The side effect is drowsiness.

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01-05-12 | 10:51 AM

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Originally Posted by sci_femme

It is prime riding weather in Florida and I landed in the hospital with vertigo attack on Monday - first in my middle-aged life - and extremely severe attack at that. Was so dizzy I could not keep anything down for a day. So after two days and bunch of claustrophobic tests I was back at my desk job, chauffeured by DH. Not fit to drive yet.

Docs say since they did not find stroke, tumors and other assorted nastiness, I should be back to normal in anywhere between two days to two weeks. Well, two weeks is not good enough, I want to ride!

Has anybody experienced anything like this?

SF

I too have Meniere's disease, which combines vertigo and tinnitus (ringing or buzzing in the ears). Fortunately it is quite mild and doesn't affect my biking or hearing, although eventually it might progress to become a nuisance.

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