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Getting a Little Used to It
by: Maggie
on Tue, Oct 14 2008
I was diagnosed with vertigo since I was 12 and i am 20 now. It comes and goes for me, but I realized that I just have to get used to it. When I first had it at the age of 12, I woke up and felt everything spinning horribly and just laid back down to stop the dizzyness. I was so scared to sit back up I laid in the hospital for 3 days and at home for 2 weeks without getting up.
After 2 weeks of laying in bed, my mom made me sit up and she held my hand (so I would feel like I won’t fall while everything is spinning) and it slowly came to a stop. When I stood on my legs, I fell because I haven’t used them for 2 weeks! Than everyday my mom would help me get up and lay down by just holding my hand and waiting until the spinning slowly stops. It went away slowly everyday and it eventually stopped.
The vertigo comes and goes, but my own treatment is to keep turning my head the way that would make me dizzy and it would eventually slow down and stop spinning, I get used to it, and than it just goes away for some reason. I hate that I have it and that a lot of people don’t understand how horrible this feeling is when I explain to them! But maybe if you try my way it will go temporary stop the dizzyness and you can go back to sleep in a more comfortable position. (I usually can’t turn to sleep on my left side when I have vertigo ) I stopped taking the antivert medication the first time I was diagnosed with it because it didn’t work for me!
I hope this might help some people a little bit because I hate vertigo as much as you do!
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Thu, Oct 23 2008
First of all let me appreciate you for the way you took your vertigo into your life. I find a great postivieness in your article and you are really i...Read
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