Ive had this stuff for the past 4 months and it has totally controlled my life until the last couple of days.

I couldnt do anything without anxiety and panic kicking in. Yesterday was good and today I managed to go to the Golf Range for an hour with minor feelings of off balance and anxiety.

I hope Im coming out of this stuff now and dont suffer any setbacks.

How do people go back to normal life? The past 4 months I have been totally engrossed in my own feelings and barely thought about anything else and the things I enjoy.

It seems now I am still very apprehensive to go out and have fun for fear of an attack. is this normal? Is it a case of time will heal and soon enough all will be forgotten? Or will it always be with me?

Pschologically I still think I am a mess.

Hi,

Like you I suffered badly for appx 4 months and then I started to come out of the fog. You will probably get good days and bad days at this stage and feel like you are taking one step forward and two back but you will improve. A lot of people on this board have had this junk for years, I have suffered for more than 20 months but my quality of life is so much better than it was last year at this time, you just learn to cope with it better. It is perfectly normal to have a fear of doing things you once enjoyed but you have to be positive and think positive. I used to think, OK, I am going to do this and if I do fall over someone will pick me up!

At about the 4 month mark for me, my anxiety started to subside along with the dizziness etc and this took about 2 months to go completely and I was able to return to work. I still have problems, but hey so many people are worse off. I still have awful feelings when I am in the pub or somewhere noisy but I try and sit it out as long as I can and usually it passes. Then I give myself a pat on the head! Set yourself small goals, you have already managed golf, and it gets easier!

Take care

Hi,

Like you I suffered badly for appx 4 months and then I started to come out of the fog. You will probably get good days and bad days at this stage and feel like you are taking one step forward and two back but you will improve. A lot of people on this board have had this junk for years, I have suffered for more than 20 months but my quality of life is so much better than it was last year at this time, you just learn to cope with it better. It is perfectly normal to have a fear of doing things you once enjoyed but you have to be positive and think positive. I used to think, OK, I am going to do this and if I do fall over someone will pick me up!

At about the 4 month mark for me, my anxiety started to subside along with the dizziness etc and this took about 2 months to go completely and I was able to return to work. I still have problems, but hey so many people are worse off. I still have awful feelings when I am in the pub or somewhere noisy but I try and sit it out as long as I can and usually it passes. Then I give myself a pat on the head! Set yourself small goals, you have already managed golf, and it gets easier!

Take care



Hey thanks for the reply!

I guess my main problem is trying to remember how I was before all this hit me and strive to be that person again - if you know what I mean?

I have like I said been caught in this whirlwind for 4 months and have thought only about this and nthing else so positive thinking is definately the way forward.

Good luck with your recovery aswell.

I'm sorry but I am just curious with what you have/had. :)

I'm sorry but I am just curious with what you have/had. :)


I have had nothing diagnosed as of yet - shall hopefully get a diagnosis next week at some point.

However, the path I have taken since my initial bout of dizzyness (Ie feeling off balance/eyes playing tricks on me/anxiety;panic/major brain fog/unable to think clearly etc) would suggest Labs I think.

I am not too sure, but I am almost 100% certain I have some sort of inner ear problem causing my problems. Ive always had problems with my ears and it all kinda makes sense now. After all, you dont just start being an anxious person for no reason and giving I have had two spells of intense vertigo with all the other feelings I have mentioned in between I think it must be inner ear related.

I have had nothing diagnosed as of yet - shall hopefully get a diagnosis next week at some point.

However, the path I have taken since my initial bout of dizzyness (Ie feeling off balance/eyes playing tricks on me/anxiety;panic/major brain fog/unable to think clearly etc) would suggest Labs I think.

I am not too sure, but I am almost 100% certain I have some sort of inner ear problem causing my problems. Ive always had problems with my ears and it all kinda makes sense now. After all, you dont just start being an anxious person for no reason and giving I have had two spells of intense vertigo with all the other feelings I have mentioned in between I think it must be inner ear related.


Did your initial bout of dizzyness just occur randomly? Mine occurred after two big panic attacks. So I thought the dizziness was just anxiety related. But now I definitely think its something else, seeing as I've had the dizziness for 3 months. I just went to an ENT last week and got "loosely" diagnosed with Meniere's disease. My dizziness really isn't like the "spinning". Did you have the spinning feeling with your bouts of vertigo?

Did your initial bout of dizzyness just occur randomly? Mine occurred after two big panic attacks. So I thought the dizziness was just anxiety related. But now I definitely think its something else, seeing as I've had the dizziness for 3 months. I just went to an ENT last week and got "loosely" diagnosed with Meniere's disease. My dizziness really isn't like the "spinning". Did you have the spinning feeling with your bouts of vertigo?


No. My dizzyness just occured out of the blue! It certainly changed my life! Ithappened when i was standing but I cant remember if it preceeded a head movement or not, just that it lasted roughly 10 seconds and scared theshit out of me! I immediatly felt really weird, nauseous and as if I was looking through a window. If I knew what I know now I would have gone to ER but I thought it was just stress related.

THe next day I put it to the back of my mind but I still felt off balance and a bit spaced out. After about three weeks I started getting anxious and had a panic attack one day that screwed me over! I kept the head don and never seeked help until now! I just kinda locked myself away from the world and anxiety took hold. Ive now shook the anxiety but still feel off balance and spaced out.

However, I hadtwo good days yesterday and the day before but it all seems to be back again today so perhaps talk of a recovery is naive to say the least!:mad:

Im gonna keep going though and see an ENT and get an MRI to rule out serious issues but Ithink it is inner ear related. It certainly follows DR Rauch's theory of compensation to a T - initial dizzyness > 2 weeks of slight symptoms > months of compensation > recovery.

Here;s hoping:angel:

As for the spinning sensation, I cant really remember. It all was over so quickly but I know the room started spinning and everything kinda tilted from side to side? Ever since I have had the feeling of movement inside me and like I am being pulled in all different directions, pressure changes in my ears that feels like I am about to spin again and the brain fog which is far and away the worst possible feeling anyone could ever experience.

I think the main point in all this is to treat the anxiety first of all so it doesnt take hold then treat the vestibular injury. I aint no expert but the people on this board certainly know their stuff and I have learned sooooo much from them.