# Can you recover after many years with this

**URL:** https://mvertigo.org/t/can-you-recover-after-many-years-with-this/23113
**Category:** Coping 🤦‍♀️
**Created:** [January 18, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/can-you-recover-after-many-years-with-this/23113 "2024-01-18T21:32:14Z")
**Posts on this page:** 5
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### Author: ![annae00](https://mvertigo.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/a/f04885/32.png) [@annae00](https://mvertigo.org/u/annae00)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 9:32pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/can-you-recover-after-many-years-with-this/23113/1 "2024-01-18T21:32:14Z")

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This is a question I’m asking out of paranoia and on a particularly hopeless day. Can VM/PPPD be healed after having it for many years? I’ve had this 24/7 for 5 years and am sometimes worried that at some point your brain just gets stuck like that. I guess I want to know whether there are ppl who recovered after having this for many many years.

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### Author: ![turnitaround](https://mvertigo.org/user_avatar/mvertigo.org/turnitaround/32/4441_2.png) [@turnitaround](https://mvertigo.org/u/turnitaround)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 9:37pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/can-you-recover-after-many-years-with-this/23113/2 "2024-01-18T21:37:58Z")

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Dipping into #Success Stories & Positivity 🕊 is your friend here.

In short: yes.

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### Author: ![sheepdog\_lord](https://mvertigo.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/bc79bd/32.png) [@sheepdog\_lord](https://mvertigo.org/u/sheepdog_lord)
#### Post date: [January 18, 2024, 11:03pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/can-you-recover-after-many-years-with-this/23113/3 "2024-01-18T23:03:46Z")

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The disease has momentum and the longer you’re chronic the harder it is to reverse it but its not an unstoppable force. idk your story but there’s a playbook: neuro/ENT/otoneurologist/neurotologist with the right preventatives, lifestyle changes, diet.

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### Author: ![lsengara](https://mvertigo.org/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/l/d78d45/32.png) [@lsengara](https://mvertigo.org/u/lsengara)
#### Post date: [January 20, 2024, 11:35pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/can-you-recover-after-many-years-with-this/23113/4 "2024-01-20T23:35:31Z")

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I think so, yes.

I’ve had chronic migraine for about 8 years, undiagnosed for the first two. It got vastly worse six years ago after I was hit by a car. After that I started being treated—many different therapies and medications. I’ve had plateaus along the way, some for extended periods in a not-great state, but currently my symptoms are 95% managed the vast majority of the time and I’ve just weaned off my last migraine med. I still do magnesium infusions and Botox and avoid a few triggers (reading on my phone while walking, poor sleep) but there is definitely hope. Get a good neurologist or chronic pain specialist and start treatment and don’t give up.

(A much longer version of the above is in the Success Stories section)

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### Author: ![MissMigraine](https://mvertigo.org/user_avatar/mvertigo.org/missmigraine/32/4385_2.png) [@MissMigraine](https://mvertigo.org/u/MissMigraine)
#### Post date: [January 29, 2024, 7:04pm UTC](https://mvertigo.org/t/can-you-recover-after-many-years-with-this/23113/5 "2024-01-29T19:04:14Z")

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I’ve had vm since 2010, undiagnosed until 2017. I found great success with flunarizine but was taken off it due to side effects. Felt terrible again after 2 years of feeling better so am back on flunarizine again. It’s been six months and i’m feeling much better but still got a long way to go. Unfortunately recovery can take many months, especially if you have severe symptoms like i did but i believe everyone with vm can recover with the right treatment, no matter how long you’ve been symptomatic.