o/~ Good morning, good MOR-ning o/~

[serinde]

Steve woke up this morning with the same dizziness, headspins, and resulting nausea that mysteriously oppressed him ten years ago. On that occasion, he went to a whole raft of doctors and a whole raft of tests, none of which figured out what his damage was; it spontaneously vanished a few weeks later. Fortunately, with today's advanced intarwubs, I have been able to give him the comforting news that it's almost certainly BPPV, which means that he's not got brain cancer or anything terrifying, and the doctors can fix it.

While engaged in this research, Beth called with her head gone asplodey, though for psycho-emotional reasons. Need to make a bit of time for decompression with her today.

On the bright side, I feel as if I'm fighting off whatever lurgy sweh was coming down with last night. (I hope he has too! Because we have Plans.)

Comments

[auntiemisha.livejournal.com]

Sorry that Steve wasn't feeling well. I had never heard of BPPV before so followed the link. So is he going for the upside-down treatment?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

Well, he's going to call the doctor in the morning & make an appointment, and we will see what she says. She is generally pretty hip to stuff so I'm hoping she can either perform it or direct us to someone who can without a lot of hemming and hawing.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

Tell Steve I hope he feels better and I surely hope it is nothing more serious. My first thought before I even followed the link was "maybe it's some sort of inner ear issue".

Um, Beth okay?

[syringavulgaris.livejournal.com]

1) Yeah, I mean, even the first time I was figuring inner-ear, but I had no idea what or how they test for any of that.

2) More or less. Still J-processing; also some interesting stuff at Mudthaw. Not bad, I should clarify, just knocked her a bit off-balance. ... I AM KING CRYPTIC.

[briony530.livejournal.com]

1. I think the inner ear diagnosis is a process of elimination (unless of course there are obvious signs of infection). "Can't find anything wrong, must be inner ear".

2. Understand cryptic. Just expected "yes", "no", or "call her".

[otherwise-nyc.livejournal.com]

Oh god, vertigo sucks horribly. I had labyrinthitis last year around this time, from an ear infection/sinus infection, and it was just awful. Hope he makes a speedy recovery, and finds a good ENT to help with that.

Will email Beth!

[b00jum.livejournal.com]

One of the co-inventors of the Epley and Sermont Maneuver (http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/bppv.html), Dr. Epley is based here in Portland at the Epley Clinic: http://www.epleyclinic.com/aboutdr.htm

From what I've read, there is a degree of controversy surrounding BPPV and the manual positioning treatment method. I certainly wouldn't let that stop you from looking into it though. From what I heard it is hard to get a diagnosis, since there are few doctors who really understand whats going on and/or believe the limited research thats has been done.