so I just got home and I donāt know how to feel ā¦I guess my mistake was expecting too much out of my first visit, here goes the details
as soon as I got there I signed in and was called in to start with the hearing loss test (that I asked for because of ear pressure even though I had one back in December) after just a few minutes, that part didnāt take long and I was told by the audiologist I have perfect hearing.
I went back to the waiting room and then was called by the nurse who took my vitals and then asked a few questions related to the dizziness, then took me to another room where I was greeted by the nurse practitioner, im sure the poor girl ended up with sore fingers with all the typing she had to do, her job was to go over all my symptoms and dates including migraines which go back to 2015, she asked about the details, how and when, what makes it worse, what helps ā¦to be honest I was very impressed, with her questioning she helped me remember things that im sure I would have forgotten other wise, she then made me get up and did some balance testing like making me stand on one foot, walk back and forward moving my head up and down, side to side and so on, she then walked me to another room and told me dr Allen would be in shortly
after about 10 min of waiting in the room Dr Allen came in, he went over my symptoms again, accessed my MRI and VNG results and went over them with me, explained what the imaging meant and what the look for, said my brain is beautiful (LOL) and that everything seems good and normal, no tumors or blockages (which I already knew since this was ordered by neurologist a few months back) then explained that my VNG came back almost normal except for the gaze stabilization part which means problems with the central part of the brain, he said this usually happens when there are brain tumors or MS lesions but that since my mri is good it makes me harder to know whatās wrong, he said āwe know thereās something wrong but thereās no actual explanation for itā (Great news sarcasm inserted) but that it helps him believe that my problem is definitely neurological and migraine related.
at this point in my head I was like ok just said the words, say vestibular migraine and at least ill know but then he went on to explain that sometimes there are viruses inside the ear and that they affect something in there and that can be the cause of the dizziness, he showed me in his diagram the little things that get affect by viruses but to be honest I forgot the name already.
so the plan is to stay on the aimovig for at least 3 months (even tho im not feeling any difference on migraine pain) before I try something else but told me to see my neurologist asap so he can make notes and know that if aimovig doesnāt help I need to try something else asap, he prescribed more valtrex for the virus theory but in a lower dosage than the other ent (on my original post I mentioned how she game 10 days of high dose valtrex) and for 6 weeks, this is when he reminded me that this will be a long process and then even tho easier said than done I need to be patient because he wonāt try other medications until his patients have tried the current one for 6-8 weeks the least, he gave me a list of supplements to try (its a copy of the list from the article from dr John carey, Johns Hopkins otolaryngology) and a list of possible food triggers to avoid, he recommended to start a diary and told me heāll see me in 6 weeks for a valtrex follow up.
so yeah, he never said the VESTIBULAR MIGRAINE words, he just talked about migraines but I figure itās almost the same thing, ohhh and he reassured me that I donāt have menieres, he said heās 100% sure I donāt have it and to just focus on my migraines for now.
