As some of you already know for the past two years I have been having off and on dizzy spells. When I move my head in certain directions the room actually starts to spin and my eyes won't focus. It only lasts a few seconds but I feel like I am on a carnival ride (and I don't like carnival rides!)Months go by between periods of dizziness so I have just sort of learned to ignore it. Yesterday however, I think I finally got an answer to my dizzy problem. After meeting with an ear/nose/throat doc and doing some balance testing with an audiologist I was diagnosed with BPPV (benign proxisymal positional vertigo). This basically means that when I move my head into certain positions some calcium crystals move in my inner ear and throw me off balance for a few seconds. (I think that is the non-medical explanantion) Anyway, it shouldn't get any worse, shouldn't really cause any pain or damage and will most likely go away even faster with some therapy. Weird, right?
Thursday, June 4, 2009
A Dizzy Blonde
As some of you already know for the past two years I have been having off and on dizzy spells. When I move my head in certain directions the room actually starts to spin and my eyes won't focus. It only lasts a few seconds but I feel like I am on a carnival ride (and I don't like carnival rides!)Months go by between periods of dizziness so I have just sort of learned to ignore it. Yesterday however, I think I finally got an answer to my dizzy problem. After meeting with an ear/nose/throat doc and doing some balance testing with an audiologist I was diagnosed with BPPV (benign proxisymal positional vertigo). This basically means that when I move my head into certain positions some calcium crystals move in my inner ear and throw me off balance for a few seconds. (I think that is the non-medical explanantion) Anyway, it shouldn't get any worse, shouldn't really cause any pain or damage and will most likely go away even faster with some therapy. Weird, right?
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I thought your title said Ditzy Blonde lol. I am glad they figured out an answer to your dizziness. I hope they can now do something since they know what it is. Love L
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