Perilymph Fistula? - really in a bad place

Good to hear from you Tina. Glad that you are still going great!

Wow, that’s very interesting. If you can ever recall what that technical term is I’d be very very interested, please try to! Is it written down in your medical notes by any chance?

I had a quite a bad car accident at one point in my past, but it was many years before and I didn’t appear to get a whiplash injury as my car had spun round and the seat back protected my neck at the point of greatest deceleration (hitting the barrier). However, it was quite a spin!

I didn’t have many symptoms as a result of that crash and my serious balance issues only started after attempting to irrigate my ear many years later.

The one thing that I’m wary of though, is that I was also a big fan of indoor rowing. I’ve wondered if that has had an influence.

I note this story too: Olympic sufferer

My hunch is a lot of this is simply fluid imbalance and whilst it can take very little time to happen, due to the nature of the biochemistry, it can take a long time to reverse/subside.

But sometimes it does feel as if something is fundamentally broken …

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