Iāve been following this post with great interest. Iāve just deferred my Teacher Training place from September 2021 to 2022 after receiving medical advice that I had a very real risk of making myself chronic if I did it now. And indeed, many very wise people on this forum advised me to do the same (in fact I believe @Onandon03 gave me pretty much that exact same advice!). Today I am feeling good. And my mind then tells me that of course I can train/work full time and everything else that comes with that. And then I have a good day where I do my garden for the day and completely wipe myself out for the following few days. But then there are also days that the 9-3 hours I currently work are a struggle and the frustration builds. Itās a hard thing to get your head around I have to say. Anyway, the point I am trying to get to is that as a result of all this, Iāve been seeing a careers coach for the past month, Iāve had 3 sessions so far, and itās definitely having an impact on how I think about myself and my previous goals. Itās a difficult mind shift but definitely one worth investing some time in I feel. Thought Iād mention in case it was of use to anyone!
I applied for disability as well, with the help of my Drs! My therapist told me 2 weeks ago that it would put a ādisabledā label on my face for life. I found it very rude from her to say and I told her, she then reckoned she wasnāt right to say so.
My two current options are the following:
Either the disability status gets accepted and I can work at a suitable position for my VM,
Either I take on a remote job (thereās a lot of them) and try to manage. What is your line of work ?
Yesterday evening and this morning I was very dizzy. I know itās because I havenāt respected my pace and been breaking the HYH diet regularly.
But surprisingly, even if I was super stressed out at the beggining of the interview process, now itās become super easy ! I just do the interviews without caring. And it seems to work.
All the best 
You were so right to decide to postpone the teacher training. I made the mistake to start it while I had super mild symptoms and it just turned the mild symptoms I had into a monster l. In just 1 month.
And if thereās one thing worse to try to get under control than episodic VM itās chronic VM.
Isnāt that the truth!
So, update on my new work situation:
I am still working from home, as a tech support, and I find that pretty good. I have been doing great for the past month, hoping that continues !!
I am a Technical Support Specialist for a company that provides generator service to companies with a nationwide footprint. I assist the Service Coordinators in making sense out of what the generator techs tell them and the quotes that they receive from the service providers.
I was a coordinator, but my VM/BPPV was causing so many issues with my stability that the boss noticed. Since Iām the only Support Specialist that they have, and since Iām 69 and nearing retirement, he didnāt want to lose my support skills. Most of the coordinator are not technically minded and donāt know come here from sickāem about generators.
I had a bad fall at work and went to the emergency room one day. On my return, the boss told me that he was concerned about losing me when I retired and wanted to work out something agreeable to us both.
He knows I enjoy the coordinator work and he knows that I donāt mind doing the after hours work. So he offered me all of the after hours work and come into the office two days a week. After hours consists of managing any work taking place outside of Monday through Friday, 8AM to 5PM. I normally work 10-15 hours a week after hours plus 16 hours at the office. He said once he has one of the new kids trained to take over my 8-5 shift that I can just work after hours.
That gives me 5 days a week to putter around in the flowers, go to the hardware store, go take photos with my cameras, or just sit and enjoy the fresh air. I then work on average, a couple of hours at night managing service calls that canāt be done during the day. My pay stays the same as when I worked 40 hours in the office and eventually, when I retire we will work out something equitable to us both.
Life is stress free and I get to be retired and get paid a lot for a piddling amount of work.
I suggest just telling people you get bad migraines (assuming you have migraine associated vertigo). No need to go into too much detail. Itās common enough that people will just accept the explanation. If you need to, I used to just say got bad migraines that make me dizzy and I canāt see or walk when they are bad. People like a diagnosis and they usually get that migraines are incapacitating. Work people get worried if you tell them something non specific. But they like migraine as a diagnosis, as many of them will have had regular migraine or know somebody who has, and they know itās no joke, but on the other hand you are not going down a rabbit hole.
Hope that helps.