Welcome, Cassie M.

Greetings, unholyroller! I notice you haven't been active at Atheist Nexus since Aug. <sigh> Sometimes it can seem a bit fragmented, with different groups for every interest. Please consider a group for socializing, where we talk about whatever's on our minds, Hang With Friends. :D You might feel more at home.

I spent the greater part of the day vomiting because of a vestibular attack. It's difficult to describe what that feels like. GD rain and low pressure fronts really bother me.

I wear ear plugs when it's windy, or if it's noisy outside.

My ears, because of the fistula's are like a barometer. When low weather fronts come through it makes my ears hurt more than normal.

I've heard that weather fronts affect people with RA too.

This weather front really hurts my ears.

The second VNG set that was done the goggles leaked light giving me an artificial horizon negating nystagmus  - they don't know how to test, so an MRI was ordered. 

 

I had to be sedated for the MRI because I can’t lay down without feeling like a parachutist out of control. All I really needed was to be put into a twilight sleep. The otologist didn't know how to order that, so I had to call the previous doctor and get the name of the medicine they used. This time I was put entirely out as though it was for an operation. I was unconscious for over an hour and a half. While I was waiting in ACU someone stroked out across the room in the post medical unit. Here it is four days later and the metallic taste of the anastasia is just getting out of my mouth.

 

If doctors cared about quality control they would allow the patient's to read the medical reports to help make corrections, but I suppose that's another story.

The vestibular Saccades nerves are damaged. The Saccades nerves communicate vertical (up/down) motion. So I don't know which way is up!

Chuckle.

Slow.

Hi Cassie,

I finally decided to hire a lawyer after after writing a doctor asking her to correct hospital admission paperwork she generated saying I had been sick since 1983. The first time I saw a doctor for my inner ear problem was 2004. She refused to correct the paperwork saying she isn't my workman's compensation doctor. Her error is the reason workman's comp didn't pay for the two surgeries and seven days in the hospital.