And we have a winner!

[deathpixie]

I had my appointment with the ear specialist today, and it looks like there's a diagnosis. I need more tests at the hospital downtown to be sure but it looks like I have benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. The link has all the nifty details. I've been given the exercises to do (and yay, making myself dizzy on purpose, what fun!) and after the tests I have another appointment with the specialist to discuss what happens next.

Tests won't be until July 20 and the follow up is early August, so in the meantime I'll have to get used to it. Lately it's been better and I'm figuring out what sets it off and avoiding doing those things. Hopefully the exercises will help too. But otherwise I have to grin and bear the moments where the world starts spinning. *wry*

So, there we go. Wacky fun.

Comments

[thatpalebluedot.livejournal.com]

Aha!

I have to confess, I was wondering about that. I've had to do similar habituation exercises with recurring labrythintis, and while it's definitely not fun--it *does* fix things.

*hugs* Glad you have some light at the end of the spinning tunnel. :)

[http://users.livejournal.com/_bounce_/]

*hugs* That's fantastic. It's treatable even though the exercises are a shit.

I'm really glad it looks like they've figured it out.

[maelie.livejournal.com]

It's good to have a diagnosis, or at least a good lead on a diagnosis. Do you know how it might've happened? Did you have a head injury or an ear virus, or is it a "random unknown cause"?

Yay on finding out!

[deathpixie]

No blows to the head and no viruses that I've been aware of, so I'm thinking I'm the random unknown, although I did have that blocked ear back in winter. I've also got it in both ears, which is unusual but not entirely unknown. So yeah, I have to go about things the weird way around...

[technophobia.livejournal.com]

Heh.

"I get violently nauseous when I do this."
"THEN DON'T DO THAT!"

;-)

[deathpixie]

*phbbts* Having done my first round of exercises, bah. They're supposed to work really well in about three weeks, but in the meantime, bleah. Flopping over ten times? Really sets off the vertigo.

[hopeness.livejournal.com]

I'm glad it turned out to be an ear thing. You know my teacher I told you about? I think he actually ended up going on one of those gyroscopic things they use to train astronauts to get his "ear rock" sorted out.