that kind of night
Dec. 3rd, 2009 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
moominmollyFirst, bad RSI-type arm pain. Then, debilitating vertigo for a day, bad enough that ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
spike took me to the ER. Diagnosis: not a brain tumor! BPPV. Which is nice and all, but more or less seems to amount to "sometimes this shit just happens and you can't walk, surprise!"
Yeah so anyway last night I ended up at Sound Bites withredheadedmuse who caught me on film doing exactly what I had been doing before she whipped out the camera. I just wish it had been spicier.
spike took me to the ER. Diagnosis: not a brain tumor! BPPV. Which is nice and all, but more or less seems to amount to "sometimes this shit just happens and you can't walk, surprise!"Yeah so anyway last night I ended up at Sound Bites with
redheadedmuse who caught me on film doing exactly what I had been doing before she whipped out the camera. I just wish it had been spicier.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2009-12-03 01:33 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 01:39 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 02:39 pm (UTC)I'm glad to hear it went away for you and hasn't come back. I don't want to have to memorize the Epley maneuver thing and constantly be worried that I'm going to fall off my bike!
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Date: 2009-12-03 01:43 pm (UTC)Anyway. Blech! Sorry your life is whupping up on you!
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Date: 2009-12-03 02:51 pm (UTC)So if she does have BPPV, there is a fairly simple set of movements you can do (which
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Date: 2009-12-03 03:05 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 01:56 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 02:11 pm (UTC)All mysteriousity aside, I'm glad and thankful that it wasn't a brain tumor, or malignant pathological degenerative debilitating toxic equilibrioceptive disease. Or something that eventually gets named after you. (Although "Labyrinthine fistula" sounds like something I saw these women do at a party once...)
I'm glad you're OK. And next time you want to get
bdizzy, just let me know.no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 02:52 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 04:22 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 05:15 pm (UTC)Dizziness is so awful.
I'm glad it was just BPPV. I only recently learned about it because a friend got it. She seems to manage it just fine with the little exercises.
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Date: 2009-12-03 06:05 pm (UTC)1 Generic drug name a.k.a. Bonine, Bonamine, Antivert, Postafen, and Dramamine (Less Drowsy Formulation). An antihistamine that is often prescribed for inner ear infection related vertigo.
2 Trade name for Promethazine held by Baxter Healthcare Corp. a.k.a. Promethegan, Romergan, Fargan, Farganesse, Prothiazine, Avomine, Atosil, Receptozine, Lergigan. Used as an antiemetic. Along with other more toxic chemicals, e.g., cyanide, one of the ingredients in the poisoned Kool-Aid in the Jonestown Massacre.
3 Primarily Okage: Shadow King, a Japanese console RPG with good visual style but mediocre gameplay. Playstation 2.
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Date: 2009-12-03 06:16 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-03 06:34 pm (UTC)That's great!
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Date: 2009-12-03 06:33 pm (UTC)I'm amused that the treatment seems to be "shake your head around until everything goes where it's supposed to." Not many ailments get to have treatment like that. :-)
Sorry to hear you have bad arm pain! Norman (my husband) has suffered from that for years, and it really sucks.
*hug*
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Date: 2009-12-03 09:57 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2009-12-04 03:05 am (UTC)There is something a tiny bit charming in the abstract about problems that can be treated with maneuvers, though.