im going tomorrow to get another opinion about my dizziness and thinking more about MAV. im worried that if im wrong and we start meds that i will slow compensation if thats whats really happening.

C&R,

You could feel worse on a new med temporarily but I find it hard to believe you're still compensating after all of this time anyway - that is if you don't have vestibular migraine (which I def think you have developed considering the family migraine history).

I think that for some of us where the disposition for developing migraine was higher than average, that a vestibular upset was the last straw for triggering it. Remember what Rauch says in his vestibular migraine plug - that if a migraineur develops any other balance disorder (VN, BPPV etc) they tend to become sicker than non-migraine patients. In these cases migraine is a common aggravating cofactor. Of course migraine itself causes the dizziness in many without any previous vestibular assault at all. In my case, I know (or at least I'd bet the farm on it) I had a viral attack somewhere in my vestibular system. My already low-level background migraine hassles that produced only neck pain grew into the beast it is today.

Anyway, I'm certain a migraine med will finally sort you out or at least remove more of the discomfort you are putting up with now.

S :cool:

Funny, I asked my neurologist this exact question as I was afraid it would hinder any chance I had of recovery and his reply was no that he thinks it will move it forward faster.;)

My doctor..dr. Priesol mass eye and ear..said that if you have migraine and don't get rid of it...compensation will have a much more difficult time.

C&R...I have never heard of it slowing/stopping compensation.

Charlotte,

>>>C&R...I have never heard of it slowing/stopping compensation.

You mean migraine itself slows or stops compensation right - not the meds.

Actually the way I experience it most of the time is that the dizziness itself is almost like an aura that regular migraineurs experience. This is not decompensation but the dizzy process occurring because of migraine doing its business at either the labyrinth area, the vestibular nerve or that part of the brain where balance is processed.

S :cool:

This is not decompensation but the dizzy process occurring because of migraine doing its business at either the labyrinth area, the vestibular nerve or that part of the brain where balance is processed.


I never understood decompensation. I never felt well enough to say it is back when my symptoms spike. I'm not sure I believe in this decomp therory but more so in what Scott just said.


that if you have migraine and don't get rid of it...compensation will have a much more difficult time

Ask me a year ago and I would have said wait recovery out. After over three years living miserably, I say try something. ;)