so i've been trying to figure it out, and i posted about the salt thing a little down there.

but i just thought of the week prior to this one i had areally crappy cold, in my sinuses and plugged ears. and shortly after i started getting better, like this week, my head felt lousy.

my question is, and im sure u guys have heard this before, is that can colds or being sick mess up the compensation process for a while after ur sick? anybody experience this?

thanks
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so i've been trying to figure it out, and i posted about the salt thing a little down there.

but i just thought of the week prior to this one i had areally crappy cold, in my sinuses and plugged ears. and shortly after i started getting better, like this week, my head felt lousy.

my question is, and im sure u guys have heard this before, is that can colds or being sick mess up the compensation process for a while after ur sick? anybody experience this?

thanks
scottttttttttttttt

Oh yeah...definitely! Happens to me without fail.
Actually, I've been going through what I hope is just a decomp blip this entire week. When I think back I remembered that last week I felt really achy and had would have moments where I felt like a fever was going to come on. It eventually passed but what followed was a feeling of being off balance and almost like vertigo could happen at any time. I describe it as a "swish" like feeling when I turned over in bed. Same feeling that comes with the vertigo but no actual spinning. Its really strange. I've been doing the MEP and so far so good. I'm still off balance but feeling a bit better. No vertigo thankfully! I'm off to my yoga class this morning and that will be a real test.
So, yes Sco24, it is very possible that your cold had something to do with it. Just curious, how far into recovery are you and what is your dx?

Of course.

Just by the fact that the nose is connected with the ear by the Eustachian Tube, wich often closes, trapping liquid, or mucous secretions in the inner ear, making it sore, inflammated or even infected.

Obviously this affects your compensation process(check also my reply on the It´s true? post down the page.

It was explained to me that during this compensation process, a vestibular dysfunction can cause a whole lot of different illness sensations, depending of which stimuli(related both to your whole system or to the balance one) is causing them, everything is connected.

And since the brain is the one responsable for compensation, almost every change in your body could affect the process, but anything related to the balance system(ears, eyes, propioceptive, brain, etc.) will affect you more, so a cold is somehting that surely can hit you on the spot...

I believe that the more compensated you are, the less vestibular problems you have, dealing with cold, sinus, etc, and the least time to recover from them if you get affected.

I don't know if there is a point of recovery, hope ther is, where this things(colds, etc.), won't get you dizzy at all, like they did before the vestibular trouble.

yeah. thanks for the replies. i too have this feeling, a few days after the cold started to go away, that i was going to spin out of control, but yet i dont.. its more off balance, lightheaded, and my inner ears feel really sensitive, like just wacked out. really annoything, i haven't had this feeling in a month or two.

to answer your question Adrienne, it will be 7 months this April and i was dx'd with Vestibular Neurotitis or however you spell it. i got it back in september a couple weeks after i had ACL recontructive surgery. hit me outta no where.. i do Qi Gong a little bit and i started feeling better, now i got wacked this week, so im thinking it was the cold sinus thing i had.. very frustrating this is.

stargrave, who told you about this fluid thing and all that?

scott

stargrave, who told you about this fluid thing and all that?

scott

My neurotologyst, I went last week for a check because I felt horrible, and she told me all about this, because I'm having some allergic sinus/cold process right now which caused me a decompensation.

good stuff, thanks for the info.

scott