May 3, 2012

Went to physical therapy yesterday and they pushed me to my limits. That may be why I felt an episode coming on about 20-30 minutes ago. It was during lunch and I was talking to a college, when I felt it coming on.  I staggered down the hall to my and took a meclizine. I have been sitting at my desk for about half an hour now and I still don't feel like I can get up and walk about. I move my head and my eyes don't track. I'm just patiently waiting for it to pass.

April 30, 2012

Just realized I am taking the last of my meds and I have not renewed or made an appointmentent with Dr. Beal. I called Costco and I can pick up the meds tomorrow afternoon. It mean I will not get my diuretic tomorrow, but I have my own potassium. I will have to call and make an appointment with Dr. Beal tomorrow. Just have to make sure I don't eat any salt tomorrow. 

Baking bread without salt does not work. It ends up tasting like dog biscuits. I think I will not be able to leave the salt out of my bread. I need to not eat any processed food and request that and restaurant food not add salt. I love cheese and am going to try making my own, so I can make it saltless. I am now making my own mayonnaise, because I can leave the salt and sugar out. 

I'll have to see how it goes tomorrow. 

April 21, 2012

Friday, April 20, in my 3rd period class, I began to get that uneasy feeling behind my forehead. I took a meclizine immediately. By the next period, I was OK and remained so for the rest of the day.

This morning I woke up with a headache. After eating breakfast of maple sausage (This may be my mistake.), two eggs, and toast. I watched the end of Randy's movie. As I was getting dressed, I noticed that the tinnitus was louder and my headache a littler more sever. By 11 am, my ears were plugged and I knew I was on the edge of an episode. I took a meclizine at 11:15 am.

Here it is almost noon and I still feel out of sorts. My head is not tracking, my ears are plugged, the tinnitus is still there, and my temperature is rising.  I am scared I may be in for an episode and I am planning on driving to Fairbanks early tomorrow morning. I just keep praying that I can keep it at bay.

April 10-11, 2012

It is 4:40 pm and I am attempting to post to my Leadership discussion board, on the computer. The janitor comes in and starts to vacuum. I notice that the vacuum is extremely loud and plug my ears. By the time he is done vacuuming, my eyes are not tracking. All of my meds are in my car, in the parking lot, and I am unable to walk. I break out into a cold sweat and start vomiting. By 4:50, I am into the dry heaves and can not stop. I try lying flat on the floor, but have to sit up to dry heave a bubbly mucus because I have nothing in my stomach. Somewhere around 5:30 I call my daughter and ask her to walk back to school, get my meds out of my car, and bring them to me. She gets here about 6 pm. I take my meds, lay my head down and wait for things to settle. Things never did "settle". It took half an hour and I was able to stand up and slowly walk, but my head was still very out of sorts. I got to my car and I was freezing so bad my hands were shaking. I very carefully drove home and went straight to bed. Had to cover my eyes because the light hurt them. I slept from 7 pm to midnight. I got up took my diuretic and a couple of Tylenol for my splitting headache. Fell back to sleep and slept until 6 am. I called in sick at work. After driving my daughter to school, I ate something, so I could take my diuretic and potassium. The potassium requires that I sit up for at least 10 minutes. I waited an half an hour and went back to bed and slept until 1:30 pm. Every time I stand up my head spins, not severely, but I'm not tracking. Ate some lunch and rested, not slept, my head is out-of-sorts. At 4 pm, I joined my class on line and, except for a short time, was able to finish it. I ate some dinner and went back to bed, at 8 pm and slept until 6 am.

April 12--I am at work. My head is still out-of-sorts. Every now and then I feel like I may vomit. No staying after work today. I'm going home to work.

April 2, 2012

Yesterday was such a disappointment. I just want this to end and I am so impatient with it. Here it is 8:48 am and my ears a "full" and I feel a headache coming on. Here I am, hanging on by my finger tips. I am worried that I may not make it through the day.

April 1, 2012

Yesterday was great. I felt "normal" all day and it was exciting. Today I woke up with a headache and my ears feel "full" and under pressure. These are the precursors to a vertigo attack. I will say it never came--thank god, but my head feels all addled, it's difficult to concentrate and think. I'm having trouble standing up and walking--the headache is worse and I walk like I'm drunk. P.W. has been under treatment for months and is just coming off the medication. This will take time and will not happen over night. Keep thinking positive! I will get through this.

I so wanted to spend the day working on my homework, but it has been a struggle. I'm going to attempt to get a few hours of work in.

March 30, 2012

I emailed P.W., who is a friend of my intern's mother. She went through the same thing I have been going through last summer. I would have never found Dr. Beal without her. I would be attempting to control it with the Elepy's maneuver, which has no effect on the imbalance of salt and potassium in my left ear. I would continue to have vertigo attacks, which would be unbearable. I let her know the good news. It turns out she has the same thing. Hers started in July 2011 and with Dr. Beal's help she is almost off the pills and back to normal. I cannot wait to be there. I owe her my sanity.

I went to Costco and picked up my prescriptions. I will wait until tomorrow to start taking them. I have already started to eliminate my salt intake. I am on the road to recovery, after three months of a nightmare.