Like most of us, I grew up doing all kinds of fun stuff! I could wheelie bicycles and motorcycles for Miles! Ride a unicycle, do back flips and handsprings, raced Moto-Cross and rode horses, I was Agile! (I can still do ONE of the above, but never got very good at it!!!) About 9 years ago something happened to me, I noticed a ringing in my ear and when I stood up the room spun around and I almost fell down. I shrugged it off and soon noticed I could not push a wheel-barrow that I didnt tip it over. When I got off a ladder Id miss the last rung, when I drove the road-wandered, (I was fine, it was the Road!!). I was soon diagnosed with VERTIGO! They suspect a virus attacked my inner ear, blew my balance and my hearing in my left ear. My balance is much better, the hearing much worse over time. I am nearly deaf in my left ear. The reason I post this is I had mentioned vertigo in a previous post, some folks thought I was being funny. Oh I DO laugh at myself; I am Old, Fat, Ugly, Deaf and have No Balance.Hahahaaaa.. (is that funny!??). But the point I wanted to make is I have had several private messages from 20-30 people, some very young, some old like me, who say THEY have it too!! Nice not to be alone in this UnBalnceD WoRlD! So to my fellow Vertigites, Embrace life with whats left of it AND whats left of your balance! I still get up to a spinning room, ride a horse with the countryside swirling around me and try to match the whistle in my ear with a song in my heart. YOU are not alone!! Below from Wikipedia: Vertigo /ˈvɜrtɨɡoʊ/ (from the Latin vertō a whirling or spinning movement[1]) is a subtype of dizziness in which a patient inappropriately experiences the perception of motion (usually a spinning motion) due to dysfunction of the vestibular system.[2][3][4] It is often associated with nausea and vomiting as well as a balance disorder, causing difficulties with standing or walking. There are three types of vertigo. The first is known as objective[5][6] and describes when the patient has the sensation that objects in the environment are moving. The second type of vertigo is known as subjective[5][6] and refers to when the patient feels as if they are moving. The third type is known as pseudovertigo,[7] an intensive sensation of rotation inside the patients head. While this classification appears in textbooks, it has little to do with the pathophysiology or treatment of vertigo.
Posted on: Sun, 09 Nov 2014 16:28:00 +0000
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