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Thanks for this thread. I am not the sufferer, my husband is. He has been so sick with this sx that he can't get on this site (or any for that matter).
He has used every description you listed to try to explain to several doctors what he felt like. This is his first and most prevalent sx throughout this ordeal.
He did every test that they could do on him. Spun him around, tilted him, put water in his ears, hot and cold, had him sit in a space aged room where they spun a picket fence passed him while counting [...] threes, reciting the alphabet... Do I need to go on?
They sent him to rehab and the therapist had him do every type of movement... Knees to head, tilt head, exaggerated walking, side stepping... You get the picture.
Nothing could make him dizzier than he was, sometimes he would not be too bad, but just the movement of a tree branch out a window might catch him and he would be "sick" for hours. Kind of hung over if you will.
So that all started in February after just five days on that Ativan.
We even traveled to Michigan to an eye specialist that put him in prism glasses... She was sure he had vertical heterophoria. She advised that we slowly (4 weeks!) taper off Ativan and we did.
Hundreds and hundreds of dollars later, six pair of glasses, all those tests and two full years from that first pill and 20 months [...] free and he is still dizzy!
He is dizzy everyday. Some days are worse than others. Now depression has set in. I find him sitting in a room staring at a wall. This was a vibrant man who never sat still. He can't eat for fear that will make him sick, he can't travel for fear that will make him sick, he just can't do anything!
He has to work everyday, but it is a struggle. So on top of the dizzy, he doesn't sleep, has anxiety, is depressed, has awful thoughts, the list goes on and on.
I appreciate you letting me vent! I also appreciate all the articles!
I will watch this thread and pray for all of you to get some relief. But I also think all the tests will not help, maybe only relieve your minds.
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