Vestibulitis/Mastoiditis/Veritgo (Page 2)

Nope, not for me at least. I wish it was, I could deal with that, as that is fairly easy to treat.

Thanks for the write up; it does help. I have s#it to pick from for local docs. I might take the drive to Lebanon and see your guy at Dartmouth. At least I'll look a bit and get some other advice. I hate the "here's your pills, now go away treatment". I'm a pharmaceutical scientist by trade and want a good understanding of the biology of what's going on. Some docs love this (cool to have an educated patient), some hate it (This guy's a wize-a$$).

You're scaring me a bit w/ the hearing prognosis. I was upset when I failed some of the word recognition in my left ear; I knew she had said something, but it could have been any word. The right was perfect. She said I missed one, but knew I passed on at least 4 words. My upper frequency range has fallen off by 15% since 2002 and 30% total since 1995. My bass response was poor as well, bnut she said that's likely due to this current episode raging right now and it'll be OK once I feel better.

I have the worst luck w/ docs lately. The only time I get decent treatment, it's from Yale-New Haven. Going to look there now...

Well, I'm back! After 9 days of diuretc, I finally feel OK again. "A" race season is next week and the layoff either killed me or refreshed me (Unfortunately, I think it didn't help at all). The OLY on Sunday 8/10 is going to be a laugher; Oh well. I'm able to swim and run w/o any issues. Haven't been on the bike, but I bet no issues.

The vertigo has subsided and the inner ear pressure is at least manageable. I'm minding the hydration, reducing the sodium and upping the potassium. Hopefully I can keep it at bay.

To all who are reading this, yes, I'm back this year. My worked with my neurologist to get a referral to the Cleveland Clinic. Great Doctors, Great Facility, Great People there, I have nothing bad to say about my experiences, and the cool part, they paid for it under a "scolarship" from the Cleveland Clinic Foundation. The doctor somewhat has released me to do what I feel I can tolerate, and I joined LA Fitness during the winter - spin Nazis, nice treadmills and weights, and close to my home and close to where I was working. It's not too hard to ride the 25 odd miles to the local LA Fitness and shower before work, and head the last 2 miles to work all nice and not stinky. I still have lots of recovery still to do. I can not ride a 2 wheel bike yet, or balance enough to do some of the yoga I used to do. I have plans for Steelhead. That's the goal. I'm working through physical therapy, using a Wii Fit (believe it or not, this is an incredible training and balance tool), balance boards and balance balls.

Prognosis for everything: Shingles on my brain damaged nerves 7 & 8 on right side. I have about 20% hearing on the right, so nobody yell "On your right", or I may just crash into them.

Additionally, from my cervical fusion the year before, my occipital nerve has lots of scar tissue and stuff causing issues. The muscles in my neck & head were having seizures, and strangling the nerves. Depcote & large dose of magnesium had made things more tolerable, enough for me to go back to work for 4 weeks before they decided to terminate my employment for absenses due to my scheduled depcote infusion treatments that my employers were aware of. I'm legally disabled now, and am in a protected class. Can we say EOCC ADA Title I. Anyone have experience with this?

So for now, I'm out of a job - Anyone know of a IT job in the Indianapolis area? I can do just about anything, and have been in IT since 1991. I just need to have 3 days per month to travel to the Cleveland Clinic for my treatments.