Symptoms Part 4 – Aftermath of the Vertigo
December 15, 2008 10:22 am symptomsAfter I woke up from the exhausted stupor that the Vertigo left I was better. I was relieved to find that the room wasn’t really spinning that much. I had slept several hours. I felt as though I had jet lag though. I was exhausted and slow moving. It took around a week or so before I got to feeling more like normal again. The fatigue was hard to describe, but fortunately it finally passed.
I had been told by more than one person that I needed to see a doctor about this.
I didn’t. I resolved to do a better job managing the stuffy ear with decongestants. (Which I had avoided because of the drowsy (and other) side effects.
I guess I was concerned about the challenges of treating or diagnosing something that was so elusive. It’s one thing to walk into a doctors office and say I feel as though the whole world is spinning and can’t walk a straight line when it’s happening. After the fact – how are they going to know what to do?
So… the next year and a half continued much as the prior year or two had. Occasional ear stuffines, pressure, roaring (tinnitus) and the light dizzy spells. I took sudafed any time I thought my ear was starting to “stop up” because I was afraid of the terror that had come to visit me for a day.
December 20th, 2008 at 2:02 pm
I had a minor chuckle when I read “the room wasn’t really spinning that much.”
Only someone with vertigo would understand the maddening irony of “that much.” I rate days on a scale one end of which means I don’t experience any vertigo until I am completely out of bed and on the other end I can’t leave my bed because it’s moving too much.
You’d be surprised at what doctors can do. I went in sometimes unable to hold myself up and other times moving almost normal. But I also understand the frustration of hoping they can find a cure for something and facing another pair of shrugging shoulders.
August 8th, 2009 at 7:14 am
There are no side effects from the prescription medication “Serc”. You won’t get that groggy tired drugged feeling at all. Once you start taking Serc and it’s in your system, hopefully like myself the full blown episodes won’t come back. I was just telling my husband about what it’s like to suffer from this. I have been with him for 3 years and I have never had an episode of vertigo since having met him, so he didn’t even know what it was. I told him to image himself being so drunk that the room was spinning, but a hundred times worse.