After 6 weeks of continual dizziness and imbalance and after ruling out inner ear (ENT doc performed tests and concluded it is NOT inner ear) I am now needing a neurologist to check things out. I would love to hear if anyone has suffered from this and can share a good doctor as well as any insight. It's very frustrating and I've tried to just overcome with "mind over matter", but my body is not cooperating and quite frankly, it has me a little scared. Thanks in advance to all you wonderful moms who I know will give me advice.
One more note: I went on a 4 day cruise and it started as soon as I got off the boat. I've been on other cruises and boat rides and never had ANY trouble at all. Doctors have said it is unrelated and that you could just wake up with this. Seems oddly coincidental to me!
Your family Dr. should be smart enough to know this sounds like Vertigo. Go to Walgreens and ask them for Meclizine or they might give you something for motion sickness and it should help you. I have dealt with this off and on for the last 5 years. I know how you feel and it is horrible!
K.
I would see a neurologist! I started like that, then other symptoms should up later (vision). I have MS. Hopefully it is something minor, but best to get it checked out.
Dizziness has been a problem in my family - me, my mother, my uncle, my daughter all suffer from bouts of dizziness. Sometimes it's really bad, like the room is spinning. For most of us, it comes in waves that come and go over a few weeks or months, then go away for a long time. My uncle has to use a cane or walker just to keep him from falling over. His vertigo is permanent. No one has ever come up with a diagnoses. We've all been through expensive tests MRI/CAT Scans - nothing. I've come to the conclusion that this is just something to live with and not worry about. Once we knew it wasn't brain tumor what more could we do? I did notice with me that the dizziness seemed to be during really stressful times, so maybe it's one of the many ways stress works its way out.
As for neurologists, do your homework. They are all very expensive and there is usually a six-month wait for an appointment. I would steer clear of Dr. Mantivontni (not sure if that's spelled right) who works out of St. John's Mercy. He was horrible to my daughter - told her to stop acting like a jerk because she was sleepy and appeared non cooperative (she'd just had a sleep deprevation EEG) and he seemed to get real pleasure out of telling me my child had epilepsy. Her current neurologist is wonderful, but works only with kids.
I'm sure this isn't a lot of help, but if you don't find anything wrong, it may just be something you deal with, on and off, that won't hurt you.
I was recently diagnosed with Myasthenia Gravis, you sound like you have same symptoms I did, it hits all of a sudden and comes and goes in spells. Check this out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myasthenia_gravis this is a link to the info and there are links from other websites.
I was originally diagnosed with diploplia and then after that vertigo and then ms, finally after 8 years they have been able to narrow it to myasthenia gravis. to save you the 8 years of running around, research this and ask your doctor to send yout to a neurologist and test you for this. it is fast easy and will save you alot of unnecessary running around.
My daughter see's Dr. Montovani (not sure on the spelling there) he has an office out of St. Johns right at 40/64 - 270
area. I would get checked out better safe than sorry.
Good luck!
L.
