The allergist

March 15, 2009 Doctors Visit, symptoms No Comments

I then went to the allergist as I had been referred and discovered that I was allergic to dust mites and a mold (aspergyllum…) They started treating me for the more severe reaction, dust mites and couldn’t really say that would solve my dizziness/vertigo, but diagnosed me with Eustachian tube dysfunction as a likely cause for all that. My shots began and I found out in the early phase of “once per week” shots I could come in as often as I like as long as I left one day between shots.

I was eager to get things going (and to get as much as I could on the 2007 year health insurance as we had already met our $5200 deductible.)

So from October through late December I got allergy shots 2 to 3 times each week. I managed to get in Monday Wednesday Friday shots many weeks. Through all this time I was feeling miserable. Fatigue, roaring/pressurized ear/constant mild dizziness and off-balance.

So, I called the doctors office again and asked for a referral to an Ear Nose and Throat doctor. I just wanted to have another opinion on getting my balance back. (The worst was a car ride Thanksgiving weekend. I felt like was still riding in the car a week after I got back.)

So I got a referral to an ENT (Ear Nose and Throat Doctor.)