sacolucci
11-02-18, 17:37
At what point do we realize our symptoms are from anxiety. I feel like I am living in the twilight zone, I've lost touch with reality, I live in fear.
10 months ago, I got BPPV. A very common type of positional dizziness. It's very to easy to treat, with a 95% success rate at first try. It happens when the calcium crystals in the inner ear migrate towards the semi-circular canals and give our brain mixed signals about where we are in space.
Anyways, around the same time, I also developed these strange headaches that would always occur in my left ear. Every 2 to 3 days, I would have to take an Advil. Although I was previous headache sufferer, it did not feel "normal" especially because they were always happening in the same place.
My left ear started getting other symptoms too like tinnitus, hyperacusis, dizziness. I don't know if the headaches were causing the dizziness or if it was left over dizziness from the BPPV in my right ear, but I am still dizzy.
It's still positional in nature. Sometimes, if I focus on it, my left ear feels full. If I look down and then look straight, I am disorientated for 1-5 seconds.
I've had every vestibular test, I've had an MRI, I've had a CT scan of the head, blood work, X-rays, etc. And they are all normal. Some of the vestibular testing I had noted some faint right ear imbalance but perhaps not even to cause what I am experiencing.
Of course, I am always focused in it, thinking they haven't caught something. Why is my left ear affected only? I worry every day about it being early Meniere's Disease... I can't stop thinking about it.
I've read on various forums that Meniere's is more pronounced episodes of ear fullness with spinning vertigo, but I am just so scared it may be too early in the disease...
Can anyone help?
10 months ago, I got BPPV. A very common type of positional dizziness. It's very to easy to treat, with a 95% success rate at first try. It happens when the calcium crystals in the inner ear migrate towards the semi-circular canals and give our brain mixed signals about where we are in space.
Anyways, around the same time, I also developed these strange headaches that would always occur in my left ear. Every 2 to 3 days, I would have to take an Advil. Although I was previous headache sufferer, it did not feel "normal" especially because they were always happening in the same place.
My left ear started getting other symptoms too like tinnitus, hyperacusis, dizziness. I don't know if the headaches were causing the dizziness or if it was left over dizziness from the BPPV in my right ear, but I am still dizzy.
It's still positional in nature. Sometimes, if I focus on it, my left ear feels full. If I look down and then look straight, I am disorientated for 1-5 seconds.
I've had every vestibular test, I've had an MRI, I've had a CT scan of the head, blood work, X-rays, etc. And they are all normal. Some of the vestibular testing I had noted some faint right ear imbalance but perhaps not even to cause what I am experiencing.
Of course, I am always focused in it, thinking they haven't caught something. Why is my left ear affected only? I worry every day about it being early Meniere's Disease... I can't stop thinking about it.
I've read on various forums that Meniere's is more pronounced episodes of ear fullness with spinning vertigo, but I am just so scared it may be too early in the disease...
Can anyone help?