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[pantryslut]

Stayed home sick with a major attack of vertigo this morning. It's gone now, thank goodness, or I would still be on my back in bed.

What I want to say:

a) Don't panic. This is familiar, if very infrequent. (It's often associated with migraines, but I didn't get one today.)

b) Don't feel guilty. I have no fever, no other sick symptoms.

c) It might have something to do with my neck and shoulder pain. I am calling a massage therapist as soon as I sign off.

d) Just for fun: it's not the lightheadedness kind of vertigo, but the heavy-headed sensation, of being pulled at an angle toward the floor.

e) Did you know that there's also a form of vertigo where it feels like you're stable but other objects around you are moving (when they're not -- otherwise, it'd be motion sickness)? I didn't!

Comments

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

I learned lots about vertigo when I first got my dizzy spells. I apparently have "positional vertigo", which the neurologist verified by having me lie on my side, and watching my eyes move -- apparently, when he asked me which way the room was spinning, I gave the right answer; it always spins in the opposite direction from the way your eyes are moving.

(Without expensive tests, he couldn't be sure, but he thought it was caused by an inner-ear virus. I suspect it might actually be musculo-skeletal in origin. Some day I may be able to do some rule-out testing.)

[pantryslut.livejournal.com]

which the neurologist verified by having me lie on my side, and watching my eyes move

I learned about that test today :)

[serenejournal.livejournal.com]

Well, I sure hope you feel better soon.

[postmaudlin.livejournal.com]

ptooey. sorry you feel like caca. and don't worry, i don't feel guilty -- i had an infection and hence, not contagious. ta da. but i'm sad you feel like poo.

[innerdoggie.livejournal.com]

I had a mild vertigo from sinus stuff pressing on my inner ear. It would go away if I took decongestants. (Decongestants make me anxious, but that's another story).

Is e) like in cartoons where the character gets bopped on the head and then "sees" birdies flying around him/her?