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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!

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[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?