The Pushy Patient - Vertigo

Likely tired of seeing me, my doctor promptly referred me (and my growing file) to an ear-nose-throat specialist for the dizziness. I ran into two walls on the way there.

The ENT doc was pretty nice, but like most specialists, was rushed and made me feel like I was holding her hostage. So I stuck to the facts pertaining to my ears, nose and throat, despite the fact that I really wanted a female’s opinion on my sudden weight gain. I had taken detailed notes outlining the precise times and circumstances surrounding my dizziness spells, but then couldn’t read my own writing.

She basically surmised that my condition was lingering vertigo leftover from the earlier upper respiratory infection and due to some junk still in my head (if she only knew). The prognosis was that it “would likely go away soon, but some people have it forever.”

Huh. Soon….or… never. My co-pay would have been better off with a magic eight ball.

So… I took the next round of antibiotics she prescribed (you’d think I would have learned). Of course, nothing happened to the vertigo, but I did develop some interesting and disgusting new side effects.

                                                

I then decided to go back to my trusted medical treatises - google and WebMD - to do some serious research for myself. I mostly found nothing. BUT, there was a You Tube video made by a guy who had vertigo for a few months and suddenly cured it with an interesting body-twisting yogic maneuver. He did the whole demonstration online. It was pretty cool, although I couldn’t focus on him long enough to get the whole thing down. He seemed pretty passionate about helping people cure their spins. I remember thinking that it was the most empathy for my situation I had felt from another person in a while. What a nice guy.