well my dizzy friends - My long awaited specialist appointment has been completed! I saw Dr. Robert Baloh from UCLA today and he diagnosed me with MIGRAINE.
No inner ear problem whatsoever. All of my symptoms are migraine related and until I get the migraines under control, the dizziness and ill-being will continue. I wasn't too shocked since I had read so many migraine stories from many of you out there (hbep, Scott, Howie, etc.), but I was a little surprised to hear that I don't have, nor did I ever have any inner ear problem. Basically he said, that doctors often diagnose us with "Labyrinthitis" when they don't know what else it is.
I am happy about this. I need to start on migraine meds - see which one works for me, and only take them for a short time to see what happens. Many people stop taking the medication after a few months and are "dizzy free". I will always have to deal with migraines - he made that clear. It is after all, a genetic disease. That is the only "bad" part so to speak. But at least KNOWING what I have has helped me cope tremendously. He told me that VRT's would not help me in any way, and in fact they could just make me worse.
He was very knowledgeable and helpful. I didn't feel rushed. He told me that he has many people WEEKLY come in to see him - all with the SAME symptoms as me (constant imbalance, fatigue, headache [or not], weird vision, etc.) and in 99% of the cases it is MIGRAINE.
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Did he say how long that you have to take them to notice a difference? My ENT gave me some Immatrex on Friday and i've only taken one since it almost seemed to make my head hurt worse and then i still had a headache all that night. Have you always had migraines? I don't really know if that's what i'm having, but i've never had bad headaches really. I think mine may also be from taking xanax at night?? Hope you find a good one that works and you get all better!
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