Worst day ever !

[RSKY]

I don't think so, they did have her upside down early on but no spinning.

LOL, the chair you sit in is bolted to the floor and doesn't move. It just seems like it does.

RSKY

 

[RSKY]

There ya go. Folks express sympathy to me when the find out I have been dizzy for about 35 years I just tell 'em the truth. I have gotten used to it and I really don't care anymore, it's just a part of life for me.
Eric

I'm going keep going places until somebody corrects this for me. Not gonna live unable to walk in a straight line.

I know that all I have to do is reach out and touch a wall and I can make it thru the house without bouncing off the walls. Same thing with holding onto a shopping cart or using a cane. And I figured out yesterday that holding the two year old granddaughter's hand while walking into a restaurant is enough to steady me and keep me walking straight. Unless.....she sees a Halloween decoration and makes a sudden turn.

Wife took a picture taken of the little thing sitting in my lap in a rocker in front of Cracker Barrel. Now she has pictures of all five grands sitting like that when they were two years old.

Something to cheer me up.

RSKY

 

[civilian]

No picture posted? Jon

 

[airbiscuit]

That inner ear stuff is tough to fix.

 

[WinterDeere]

That inner ear stuff is tough to fix.

Not to mention that it can often be confused with a dental problem. I had what felt like an inner-ear problem, and spent most of one winter bouncing back and forth between my GP and dentist, both who swore up and down there was nothing wrong with me. But I was in misery, with infrequent random stabbing pains in my ear.

On my 3rd or 4th trip from the GP back to the dentist, I happened to land in the chair of a different dentist, as my regular at that practice was out that day. This new dentist spent a good long while pulling, pushing, poking, freezing, heating... you name it. Eventually she found the problem, a root canal done many years earlier, in which the prior dentist missed part of the root, had become infected.

I guess if there's any point in all of that, it might be that if you have an inner ear problem that isn't being resolved, you might want to see a dentist!

 

[Wagtail]

Following... if only to make sure you 'get there'.

 

[POGuy]

Should have seen it from my point of view.

One of the RNs is head nurse at a local hospital and she has seen it all. Told me the next week that I scared her badly. And the next week I told our preacher that I had scared the devil out of more people that one Sunday than he had his entire career.

You will laugh at this. When I had the attack at church a lady called her daughter in law and told her what was happening. Daughter in law happens to be my great niece. She called her grandmother who is my sister. She called my other sister that lives more than forty miles away. By the time the ambulance got to the ER my sister was there. As was my oldest daughter who was also in church thirty miles away. Youngest daughter had called her. And before my wife got to the ER following the ambulance she was being texted by friends in other churches wanting to know how I was. Said there was prayers being said in my name in at least four churches before I got to the ER.

Telegraph, telephone, or tell a woman. The story will get around.

RSKY

Great story, it's good to be loved!

 

[Rctex]

I am extremely frustrated and don't want to vent to my family so I am doing it here. Gotta be cheerful and optimistic around the family. I am afraid this constant dizziness and vertigo will be permanent and I will end up sitting on my constantly growing rear end and watching soap operas for the rest of my life. I have always kept the one acre lot we live on in tip top shape and have done nothing this year.

As part of the 'therapy' for my ongoing inner ear problems I was instructed to walk two miles a day "rain or shine". Before all this started I could make it in forty minutes. Takes me fifty minutes now. Yesterday while going up a slight incline the ground suddenly tilted down to the left and I staggered to the right and nearly took out a neighbor's mailbox, while on foot. The 4x4 it was mounted on must have been weak anyway and I made it weaker. I will fix it for her when I get a little better. Yep you read that right I collided with a mailbox while walking and nearly took it down. If it hadn't been there I would have been face down in the side ditch. I hung on to that mailbox for a while and the ground suddenly snapped back level and I made it back to the house.

We couldn't take our fall vacation this year because I am not allowed to drive. Wife, daughter, and granddaughter wouldn't let me get on the roof and clean out the gutters. They had to be cleaned out because the screens over them were piled up with leaves and a crew is coming to paint the house next week. So the daughter called a teacher friend in the neighborhood that she used to work with and he came and cleaned them. It was embarrassing to me. Cannot help son it law clear a thicket because they won't let me run a chainsaw. I am allowed to drive my little Kioti and the Bad Boy. Granddaughter took me to Lowes and wouldn't let me get out of arms reach because she was afraid I would fall. Can't walk thru the house without bouncing off walls and door facings.

I am frustrated!!

RSKY

I’ve had ear problems for 30 yrs
No fun. Cold air, water worst things to set them off. I buy bottle of 100 chewable Meclizine
There’s doctors that specialize in
the Epiley maneuver. Few simple positions of the head to reset the floating things in the ear. Sorry can’t remember what they’re called but it’s the balance system for the equal liberum
I wish the best for ya. I know…..

 

[WinterDeere]

Telegraph, telephone, or tell a woman. The story will get around.

I'm an engineer, so more blessed with practical logic than social graces... I'm sure you've heard the one about the doctor, the minister, and the engineer out golfing together. Anyway, the question I'd have been asking that collective afterwards is, "at what point along the way of this game of telephone tag, did someone in that group say, 'hey, maybe we should call an ambulance?'"

 

[Kubota Kid]

I seen on a exercise program that applying your thumb behind your ear lobe, holding pressure for 30 seconds on each side will relax the condition.