very restrained optimism
Jan. 22nd, 2004 12:40 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kitanziActually my first reponse was fairly unrestrained glee, but I'm trying to keep in mind that this is tentative. I just talked to one of my doctors (a nurse practitioner, technically) because I had called and left him a voicemail yesterday about my ongoing dizziness, sometimes pretty damn severe.
He agrees that the cold I got last weekend is probably making things worse, but he also believes, based on what I've told him, that there's a good chance that this is due to calcium deposits like tiny pebbles in my inner ear. He says there's an over the counter antivertigo medicine I should try (Bonine), and he has some exercises to fax me.
This isn't something I've ever heard of before, but in some ways it seems to fit pretty well. I haven't had any significant fever (maybe a touch from the cold), no other symptoms other being very tired (again, probably the cold plus some stress, and by now half the stress is worrying over this medical mystery - work is actually going quite well.) I do tend to move my head around a lot even when I'm sitting still, a habit I developed a long time ago to help compensate for slightly wonky hearing - it's easier if I look at who I'm listening to. Time will tell... I'm curious just what these exercises will be. I'm also relieved all out of proportion at the idea that someone has some idea what the hell is wrong with me - I know it's not a sure cure, but the scariest part of this to me has been the idea that's something wrong, and it's very vague, and no one seems to be able to tell me what's going on. For right now, at least, I can be optimistic.
He agrees that the cold I got last weekend is probably making things worse, but he also believes, based on what I've told him, that there's a good chance that this is due to calcium deposits like tiny pebbles in my inner ear. He says there's an over the counter antivertigo medicine I should try (Bonine), and he has some exercises to fax me.
This isn't something I've ever heard of before, but in some ways it seems to fit pretty well. I haven't had any significant fever (maybe a touch from the cold), no other symptoms other being very tired (again, probably the cold plus some stress, and by now half the stress is worrying over this medical mystery - work is actually going quite well.) I do tend to move my head around a lot even when I'm sitting still, a habit I developed a long time ago to help compensate for slightly wonky hearing - it's easier if I look at who I'm listening to. Time will tell... I'm curious just what these exercises will be. I'm also relieved all out of proportion at the idea that someone has some idea what the hell is wrong with me - I know it's not a sure cure, but the scariest part of this to me has been the idea that's something wrong, and it's very vague, and no one seems to be able to tell me what's going on. For right now, at least, I can be optimistic.
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