Health update/rant below, feel free to keep scrolling. I just need to talk into the void where a few kind shoulders and ears might be lended.
I got some vague diagnosis this past week of "vestibular weakness". Which does and does not answer my vertigo problems. She didn't even really elaborate. She just how's, " yea you don't have Meniere's but you have vestibular *jargon jargon* weakness." I asked, "what does that mean?" She goes, "you know the Spinny chair test you had?" "Yea." "They saw some weakness in your eye movements." And I could tell she didn't want to be on the phone any longer so I just didn't ask anything else.
So, I'm supposed to go to physical therapy. I haven't gone yet, but my first appt is kind of far.
Today is a flare up day and a bad one. I'm super nauseous and dizzy. I look up vestibular weakness online and since I don't really know what that really means or what kind of diagnosis that is, I kinda started to doubt if I did actually have it.
I found a video of a physical therapist offering some exercises at home for VW and I thought I'd give them a try, since I'm not feeling good at all.
Tell me why it is so hard for me to move my eyes up and down, left to right, and to turn my head to the side. I think I might have vestibular weakness after all. All 20 of his exercises I couldn't even get through 3 reps. What does this mean???
I have an MRI this Tuesday. Since it isn't Meniere's I'm not sure what else it could be. I wish I knew more so I could advocate for myself better.