Comments | robot_grrl: really, it's just vertigo

robot_grrl

really, it's just vertigo

Jun 18, 2009 17:49

After Disney's California Adventure and the vertigo that followed I was just beginning to get over it when I went with Derrick to SeaWorld. Vertigo came raging back and it can be said that it is much worse when I'm tired. Between the trip to and from Chicago, Duckon and a few days of starting work at 3am I am zonked. Needless to say my vertigo is ( Read more... )

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mbcrui June 19 2009, 17:29:48 UTC

Have you had your ears checked for fluid? That's what it sounds like to me...

robot_grrl June 20 2009, 15:57:40 UTC

I have seen a doctor, it first occurred after my hysterectomy and people kept assuring me that it was just the anesthesia. I have what is known as BBPV or benign bilateral paroximal vertigo. It usually only happens to the "elderly". ahem

Little calcifications get knocked loose inside the cochlea and spin about. Wheee! The effects don't actually diminish little by little, but instead incidents get farther and farther apart.

This means I can't enjoy myself at amusement parks too much without paying for it for quite a while. Rats.