#endolymphatic hydrops

[monkeymeghan]

So I got the “I’m tired, too, but I still do things” from my mom today. She doesn’t get it. I tried to explain, and she still wants me to call my doctor, which I will when I’m a bit better. I don’t want to call now and make an appointment and be too fatigued to make the appointment. Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day. It has to be because I have to drive my mom to a doctor’s appointment tomorrow afternoon no matter what. *sigh* This has been a really rough three days.

In other news, I’m feeling slightly less pressure in my ears, so I think the new medication is working. 🤞🏻

[snarp]

I only just realized this: the reason I’m so bad at side-scrolling games is that they usually require your character to move left-to-right, and involve enemies which move towards them right-to-left. And since I can’t accurately track right-to-left motion, I can’t tell where the enemies are.

...you think it’d possible to design a fucking platformer that evaluates the player for potential vestibular dysfunction and/or stroke?

[monkeymeghan]

So today I saw my ENT, since my GI doc wanted me to see him. It turns out that based on my symptoms he thinks I have endolymphatic hydrops. Idiopathic endolymphatic hydrops is also known as Ménière’s disease. Based on the reading I’ve done since I got home, I think I would have secondary, because SEH can be caused by ear surgery. This makes sense because the vestibular symptoms I’ve been having have been since my craniotomies. Fun times. So he wants me to try a certain medication for a few months and see how that goes. Fingers crossed!

[snarp]

person from my medical insurance company who called to Educate Me On The Additional Services I May Be Eligible For, and has gotten increasingly worried- and solicitous-sounding over the course of the call: Well, just so you know, we can definitely help you through the process of getting a mobility aid - cane, walker, or whatever - whenever you feel you’re ready for that step.

me: thanks

[snarp]

I had to temporarily delete all the music from my phone to fit the Laws, which is probably at least as bad for me as wading through moldy files describing death. I put on my headphones, turn on the Peaceful Forest Sounds generator, and my shattered, spasming auditory organs wring what meaning they can out of it, spin it out into aggressive shika deer vocalizatons. Nostalgic. Nostalgia is Orientalism, and also death.

(Did you know the deer yell at you if you don’t give them a cracker. They hang out in the middle of the underpass and crowd you when you go by and it’s like the Three Billy Goats Gruff in reverse. I am the troll, just trying to get to the Circle K to buy a bean bun.)

[snarp]

An exciting day for my skull.

My vestibular system has been tentatively diagnosed as Fucked! In two separate ways! Secondary endolymphatic hydrops (in only one ear, at the moment), and crystals in my inner ear fluid, aka BPPV.

This is good news, because both of these things are probably relatively-easily treatable in my case! The guy doing the tests actually showed me an exercise that he said could potentially entirely resolve the BPPV within a couple months.

The hydrops is more complicated, but he thought that it was likely that it was related to my issues with excess potassium: he’d only previously seen a correlation with excess sodium, but either could theoretically cause the problem. I cannot be trusted with Spironolactone or fruit.

The weirdest result, from my point of view, was the discovery that my visual tracking problems are directional: I can track movement to the right just fine, but not to the left. Why didn’t I realize this! Possibly because it hasn’t always been that way! Endolymphatic hydrops flares up and goes down, and sometimes it’s in both ears and sometimes it’s just in one and sometimes it switches ears! Why are my ears fucking up my eyes!

[snarp]

At the end of the inner-ear test, the guy very cautiously suggested that, for the time being, I might want to try using a cane to help me judge distances/my own velocity better.

Me: ...

Him: You don't have to call it a cane, if you feel like you're too young to have a cane! You can just say "walking stick."

Me: No, that's not - I'll kill someone by accident, is the problem? I'd accidentally knock an old guy over and -

Him: Aw, no! No, you won't, I promise!

Me: No, this really would be extremely dangerous, like, I'd might as well get a sword-cane. And call it a sword cane.

Him: Yeah! - I mean, well, as long as you use it...?

[heighpubsseo]

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