Thanks so much for responding everyone. You’ve provided much food for thought.
Colleen -
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I don’t feel limited like I did last summer. I’m not anxious about going anywhere or doing anything b/c I feel pretty much back to myself.
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Feeling limited is my biggest frustration of all time. Feeling that I can’t live as I’d like to, missing out on things all the time. That’s a huge stress for me in itself. Encouraging to read it’s better for you now. I hope it continues.
Hannah -
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I’m cursing myself for having stressed out because if I hadn’t I might be ok now. It’s a hard lesson to learn and I make this mistake again and again.
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Me too. But how to stop the cycle! I do try though and have had measured success but sometimes I just can’t stop the gravy train. Or worse still I deny that “that particular” stress can’t possibly be accountable for my vertigo. Denial I suppose. Funnily enough, the big, crisis sort of stresses I cope with better than the insidous, ongoing, almost internal stresses. The kind that are not so easy to identify.
Joe -
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I feel pretty fragile…don’t need alot of surprises in my life.
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That really struck a chord with me.
Christine -
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Yes definitely. I have kept a diary for years. I had a severe vertigo attack after getting back from an overseas adoption. I had a vertigo attack the night I was due to go in for an operation, I had a bad vertigo attack after a week of a lot of stress at work once, and I got them in the past, after I had an argument with my husband So, yes,
definitely.
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I appreciate your definitive answer and examples. You’ve made me think again about looking for patterns. I’d more or less given up on that because I could never see any. Trouble is when dizziness is 24/7 to one degree or another it’s difficult to pinpoint exact causes sometimes when it worsens.
Joan -
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So it is a definate circle or “catch 22”, which came first the stress or the MAV. … I take yoga classes twice a week
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Catch 22 it is indeed. I was thinking of taking up Tai Chi, simply because there’s not a lot of quick movement involved. I can’t even do Pilates at present. I have a machine at home but can’t lie flat all and the constant backwards and forwards has me dizzy within seconds.
Once again, thanks everyone. Reading all your comments has given me renewed determination to press on.
Brenda