Thread:ImLola/@comment-33002749-20180507012617/@comment-35319541-20180507023720

WOW Diane, yes we are walking a very similar road. Do the chripping insects at night drive you inside? that pitch makes my head tip to the right and my face feels like I should be drooling. I have had vertigo soo bad that I crawled to the bathroom to vomit or just laid on the floor next to the trashcan. I have what they call positional vertigo, that is to say, it is how I move that sets it off, well it has never left in 5 years now, I have learned how not to move to control the spinning more like it. I cannot go out to stargaze in any position, lest I look up to the right and tilt my head back because this will make me me "spin". I get what they call optical migraines, it happened alot at work and just yesterday from trying to play SN, I wanted to soo badly, anyway, it causes me to see what I call an aluminum pie pan with the bottom cut out and then add twinkly colored lights all around it, usually in the right eye. Some people, like yourself see flashing lights, so you may be experiencing the optic migraine. I usually have no pain during one, but will get a migraine starting with pressure on one side shortly afterward. When I had to go get a shot of, shoot, memory loss is a permanent thing, whatever it was for the migraine pain the doc would ask how bad is it, I would tell them If I had a gun right now I would blow off the top quarter of my head if I could just to make the pain stop (ironic statement) but assure them I was not suicidal and would never really do that. I remember that photophobia from our earlier conversations and did a little research on the web. Interesting enough, it is linked to migraines, vertigo and dry eyes, which I have also had for years, and get this, prevelent in employees who have to spend long hours in front of computer screens.

I was in a head on collision in 1979 and my 75 lb dog flew up from the back of our pinto wagon and smacked into my right cheek. This was when the vertigo first started, while I was in the hospital, I was diagnosed. I had a occasional episode every few years then wham, it seemed to hit in clusters and would last for weeks. My old boss would send someone to my house to pick me up as I could not drive, but once I got to work and got seated I could do my job. However, if I got up to go say down the hall and someone spoke to me, I would forget what I was going to do. I had to pretend I did not hear them, just to get my task done and then go looking or paging them to my office to see what they wanted. Walking was like being in one those tilted floors with mirrors all around me, so off balance I had to hold on to the wall.

Any of that seem familiar to you as well? As for the coughing, been there and done that too. I have been able to help the coughing by taking a teaspoon or up to a tablespoon of Braggs apple cider vinegar in 4 oz of water once or twice a day and viola no more coughing. I was told I have acid reflux and the cider really does work. IF you try it stick with it for a couple of weeks or so, and it should help. Yeah I know it doesn't taste all that good if you don't like it, but it also helps cut bad breath at the same time, seriously hahaha. It is my only go to "med" now.

My road to where I am now was long, I am not the person I was before all this started, nor will I ever be. I have lost 5 years of my life, living in a terrible fog of existance.

I was on two medications and after 4 years cold turkeyed myself off them, but had to start the seritonine up again due to mood swings aYnd that I had to slowly wean myself off of. It has been over a year and a half to really beging to talk and make sense, but feeling stressed, my mind just shuts down and words elude me again then the migraines and vertigo kick in. Does putting ice on your head or neck help? it does me sometimes.

I will definately research the medical term of your illness. This is long so I will close for now. thanks for contacting me, I tried to find your post just last night, if you can velieve that!! Thanks for sharing as well, it is nice to know I am not crazy or alone in this but sorry you have to suffer so.