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(I’m not trying to elicit sympathy… just trying to chronicle my experiences living w/ vertigo for others who have the same problem.)

I woke up Monday morning with a full-on attack of vertigo. On my scale of severity, Monday morning was a 6/10. I couldn’t drive. I can usually manage driving with a mild attack but I wasn’t about to chance it. I did my vertigo exercises twice before I went to work and wished I had some topical phenugran (a really good anti-nausea medicine that you place on the inside of your wrists instead of ingesting it), but the last few doses I had in the refrigerator had expired in July. I’ve been trying to get a refill to no avail.

I knew on Sunday night when I turned over to my right side to sleep, that I’d have a bad morning. I usually experience a burst of vertigo when I lay down on my right side, but it normally goes away in 30 seconds or so. This time I counted to 160 and the world was still spinning.

Today is a 3/10. I’m functional, I can drive, but in the past 3 days I’ve made so many mistakes at work… I even brought down our entire development network yesterday. Vertigo makes me fuzzy-headed too.

I spoke to a friend of mine who’s training to become a TCM doctor (Traditional Chinese Medicine) - between him & a third-year friend of his, he diagnosed me with some liver dysfunction - and prescribed some herbs. After 15 years of vertigo, and “western” medicine failing miserably to treat it, I’m moving on to alternative treatments. This is the first…

These herbs are supposed to treat both migraines & vertigo… as well as stress - three things I’m dealing with a lot these days. I ordered it yesterday, to ship express. We’ll see.

One more interesting tidbit… I knew my body temperature rises & my blood pressure goes up when I have a vertigo attack, but never had the numbers to prove it. Monday morning I got a flu shot and the nurse took my temperature & bp - I had a mild fever, 99.3 and my bp was 130/70, which is high for me. Normally my bp runs 115/75.

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