Comments on: Dizzy. I’m so Dizzy, My Head is Spinning … http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/ over 5 billion neurons served Mon, 23 Jan 2012 02:58:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 By: Charles Atkinson http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-17927 Charles Atkinson Sat, 25 Aug 2007 22:20:00 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-17927 Yup, I have been dancing and spinning all summer and I just got BPPV too. Counting on the rocks in your head repositioning when I can find a therapist in Massachusetts!!! Yup,

I have been dancing and spinning all summer and I just got BPPV too.

Counting on the rocks in your head repositioning when I can find a therapist in Massachusetts!!!

]]> By: Bradley Denton http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16435 Bradley Denton Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:48:26 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16435 Sounds mui entertaining. If they allow an audience, you should invite your friends. But seriously: I'm so sorry. It sounds like No Fun At All. Sounds mui entertaining. If they allow an audience, you should invite your friends.

But seriously: I’m so sorry. It sounds like No Fun At All.

]]> By: Caroline Spector http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16430 Caroline Spector Thu, 19 Jul 2007 13:21:42 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16430 Madeleine, My mother-in-law has the fainting thing you have. It's been driving her nuts. I'm so sorry Sarcasm Girl has it, too. Laura, I'm with you on the "benign." Yes, it won't kill you, but it'll make you wish you were dead. I am better now, but I have to go in for an MRI. "Oooo, let's shove Caroline into a tiny tube, bang large objects around her head, and then take pictures. It'll be fun! What? She's claustrophobic? Even better!" Madeleine,

My mother-in-law has the fainting thing you have. It’s been driving her nuts. I’m so sorry Sarcasm Girl has it, too.

Laura,

I’m with you on the “benign.” Yes, it won’t kill you, but it’ll make you wish you were dead.

I am better now, but I have to go in for an MRI. “Oooo, let’s shove Caroline into a tiny tube, bang large objects around her head, and then take pictures. It’ll be fun! What? She’s claustrophobic? Even better!”

]]> By: Madeleine Robins http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16378 Madeleine Robins Thu, 19 Jul 2007 02:05:18 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16378 Caroline--with one exception, the fainting thing has been more comic than not (I fainted at the top of an escalator in an NYC department store when I was 20, and came to with an elderly woman poking me in the side with an umbrella. "Girl, get up! This isn't a protest, this is Alexanders!"). Basically the treatment for vaso-vagal syncope is: when you feel faint, get down on the floor where you can't fall any farther. Poor Sarcasm Girl inherited this from me and finds it just as useless a party trick as I do. The defining test is tedious and involves needles, so the kid has never been tested, but the treatment (get down low) remains the same. Feeling more steady today? Caroline–with one exception, the fainting thing has been more comic than not (I fainted at the top of an escalator in an NYC department store when I was 20, and came to with an elderly woman poking me in the side with an umbrella. “Girl, get up! This isn’t a protest, this is Alexanders!”). Basically the treatment for vaso-vagal syncope is: when you feel faint, get down on the floor where you can’t fall any farther.

Poor Sarcasm Girl inherited this from me and finds it just as useless a party trick as I do. The defining test is tedious and involves needles, so the kid has never been tested, but the treatment (get down low) remains the same.

Feeling more steady today?

]]> By: LauraJMixon http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16366 LauraJMixon Wed, 18 Jul 2007 23:41:54 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16366 And, btw... "Benign," indeed. Mmmph. I'll puke on whoever named the phenomenon and they can tell me how benign it is. And, btw…

“Benign,” indeed. Mmmph. I’ll puke on whoever named the phenomenon and they can tell me how benign it is.

]]> By: Caroline Spector http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16347 Caroline Spector Wed, 18 Jul 2007 19:49:36 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16347 Thanks for the kind words y'all. Laura, I am so sorry you have BPPV, too. It sucks. Madeleine, fainting randomly must be more than a little scary. I hope it doesn't happen too often. Rory, we are just in that whole middle-age cattle chute. Stuff is going to break and drop off the chassis. Maureen, I'll call you and give you details. I love medical ookiness, too. Thanks for the kind words y’all.

Laura, I am so sorry you have BPPV, too. It sucks.

Madeleine, fainting randomly must be more than a little scary. I hope it doesn’t happen too often.

Rory, we are just in that whole middle-age cattle chute. Stuff is going to break and drop off the chassis.

Maureen, I’ll call you and give you details. I love medical ookiness, too.

]]> By: Maureen McQ http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16328 Maureen McQ Wed, 18 Jul 2007 16:35:15 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16328 I have a real fascination with medical stuff. But I prefer it to happen to complete strangers and show up on cable TV. Glad you're better, Caroline. I cannot imagine how they are going to realign your inner ear but I can only imagine it will be...interesting. As in the old curse, may you be born in interesting times. I have a real fascination with medical stuff. But I prefer it to happen to complete strangers and show up on cable TV.

Glad you’re better, Caroline. I cannot imagine how they are going to realign your inner ear but I can only imagine it will be…interesting. As in the old curse, may you be born in interesting times.

]]> By: Madeleine Robins http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16269 Madeleine Robins Wed, 18 Jul 2007 04:35:14 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16269 I got no problems with that, Caroline. Hope you're feeling more, um, stable now. As one who suffers from a fainting disorder (nowhere near as Victorian as it sounds, but often mortifying) I have a policy never to make fun of anyone else's benign but unpleasant ailments. I'm hoping that we're all just going to cheer up and get healthy for a good long while. I got no problems with that, Caroline. Hope you’re feeling more, um, stable now. As one who suffers from a fainting disorder (nowhere near as Victorian as it sounds, but often mortifying) I have a policy never to make fun of anyone else’s benign but unpleasant ailments.

I’m hoping that we’re all just going to cheer up and get healthy for a good long while.

]]> By: Rory Harper http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16263 Rory Harper Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:34:00 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16263 Jeez, Caroline, I'm so sorry to hear about this. That's a miserable thing to have happen. When I was in my 20's I had severe chronic ear infections, so I know what it's like to have your sense of balance just.....go away. But yours sounds like it's a lot worse than mine ever was. At least with mine, I could take some phenothiazines and have the nausea go into neutral. This has been a rotten sucky health year so far, for too many of us. Jeez, Caroline, I’m so sorry to hear about this. That’s a miserable thing to have happen.

When I was in my 20′s I had severe chronic ear infections, so I know what it’s like to have your sense of balance just…..go away. But yours sounds like it’s a lot worse than mine ever was. At least with mine, I could take some phenothiazines and have the nausea go into neutral.

This has been a rotten sucky health year so far, for too many of us.

]]> By: LauraJMixon http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/comment-page-1/#comment-16258 LauraJMixon Wed, 18 Jul 2007 03:06:16 +0000 http://eatourbrains.com/EoB/2007/07/17/dizzy-i%e2%80%99m-so-dizzy-my-head-is-spinning/#comment-16258 Sympathies on everything, Caroline. I have BPPV as well, and it truly sux. Sympathies on everything, Caroline. I have BPPV as well, and it truly sux.

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