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I'm just arriving from a neuroto visit, because I felt like hell yesterday, almost all day with spaced out feeling, lots of object movement(like oscillopsia, but no I know it's more often called visual vertigo), dizziness, ear pressure, the works.

They checked me out again for dix-hallpike, and Romberg test(both negative), and almost it all, and now with something they didn't use the last time, wich was something they plug into your ear, wich has a light on it and it emits this hum type noise, not exactly know the name of it... but this showed that due to my allergic history, I've got both ears inflammated, since I'm already developing some sinus-throat stuff right now, wich obviously affects the ear function and my compensation process.

She also explained that it's hard to know what exactly affected my ear in the first place, it could be a virus, or a bacteria, due to my allergic stuff, but now it's all gone, what's left, as in most cases here, is what she called a vestibular dysfunction, meaning somehting is wrong in there, and you'll have to compensate for it.

Obviously my perennial sinus condition helped it in the bad way, that is also true for my whiplash accident, and for a mild TMJ stuff, she detected today, add it all up to my recent food poisoning, and thinkin' about it I'm doing pretty well, considering.

An also my lack of commitment and discipline last year wtih my VRT, helped to slow down the overall recovery process, so it continues, and in the meantime, any stimuli which involves any part of the whole balance system, an infection, bright lights, motion, etc. could make me feel dizzy in a whole different ways, until my brain learns to compensate again for all this stuff, and hopefully that day I(we) won´t feel bad at all.

Obviously I have to treat my allergic stuff, to help both my general health condition and my compensation process, this same is true for an anxiety case, each which in their own way, hinder compensation.

So mixing it all it is clear how we can be experiencing so many different sensations wich appear to us like a new disease, or a bad Dx, when it is all, unfortunately for us, quite normal for this junk(as it is perfectly described by subs). An this sometimes shows up like a Meniere's case, because of the changing sensations, and the apparent "evolution" of the disease, wich really is nothing more than the compensation-decompensation merry-go round. And as we all know MS is quite uncommon and it has a clear hearing loss component attached to it, but for many unexperiences PHD's or ENT's sometimes this is the first choice of diagnose.

She also gave to me a new VOR stimulating excercise, to mix it with my cooksey exercises(we were right here subs), and se expects me to be fine, in some time, how long? that is unfortunately another mystery, but she doesn't think this last forever.

One last thing specially for you C&R, she told me that the caloric test shows this dysfucntion clearly in the eye movement charts from the test, and most of the time the ear wich do not respond well(ie you don't get dizzy at all), it the faulty one, BUT in some cases the bad ear responds different, getting you dizzier than normal. Anyway the real diagnose comes from both the difference in response between both ears, and in the chart, which clearly shows how good or bad your eyes move due to the caloric stimuli.