Hi All,

I ran into a medical student today who was a subject in one of my studies. He just finished a semester studying neurology and was very up on the latest with vestibular junk. He told me this: that the mean recovery time for vestibular neuronitis was 2 years not 6 weeks like we seem to read all the time. In other words, if you looked at a bell curve for recovery, most fall into the highest point on the curve which is 2 years. I don't know where (exact source text) this info comes from unfortunately but from my point of view it seems like it may be correct.

For newbies, don't let this be upsetting news. The worst part of it is over quite quickly and, for the most part, you may end up feeling a little drunk and light-headed/foggy as you continue to compensate to whatever length of time is required to a full return to 100%. And this applies to VN only and probably not to a whole bunch of other cases which resolve more quickly for most.

S

Very interesting Scott..... Good info.

Scott,

I had heard the 2 year thing from my ENT also, as VN is what I had/have. He seemed to think that the whole recovery thing was age related too, don't know it this is right or not but I suppose it makes sense in the fact that the younger the patient the more likely they are to remain active and compensate. I would say I am 95%+ most of the time and I came down with this 10 months ago.

Thanks for the info.

Lizzy x

Thanks Scott for this bit of info - it gives me hope!!

hi scott

yeah im glad u found this out, im at the 17 month stage so hopefully i get off this plateau and move forwards again

lorr

xx

Hi Scott,

Good to know... I think it's about time people were given more accurate/realistic approximations for recovery periods with this illness.