[LMB] Re: AKICOTL: OT: BPPV

[Azalais Aranxta]

Quoting Katherine Collett <kcollett at hamilton.edu>:

> My impression is that the exercises are supposed to work right away-- 
> though you can't actually tell since you're not supposed to do any of  
> the motions that trigger the vertigo.

Sadly, for me to do that it would require I be strapped to a board.

> I got a prescription of Meclizine, too, which is supposed to directly  
> address the vertigo.  Oh, here we go, from Webmd.com:  "Meclizine is  
> an antihistamine that is used to prevent or treat nausea, vomiting,  
> and dizziness caused by motion sickness. It may also be used to  
> reduce lightheadedness, dizziness, and loss of balance (vertigo)  
> caused by diseases that affect the inner ear."  Anyway, I found that  
> it made me very drowsy--unacceptably if I wanted to drive or work or  
> anything.  I could avoid triggering the vertigo by avoiding looking  
> up or down enough that the BPPV was much less of a problem than the  
> Meclizine, so I only took it once or twice.

Meclizine is much less annoying to me than trying to not trigger it or do the
exercises while living alone.  I take it at night, before I go to bed.  I have
insomnia, so I take all my drugs that might make me drowsy then, in the hope
that one of them will work!

But then I am one of those awful people who would rather take pills than be
disciplined and live on a strict anti-ADD diet or do exercises that make me
throw up or try to work through whatever it was about my screwy background
caused me to become depressed!

~malfoy :)