MS: My Story with Multiple Sclerosis
it truly is amazing how the body heals sometimes…this is what’s left of the “Mike Tyson” eye and i swear it looks better and better as the day goes by!
the Vertigo kicked in on Sunday nite with a vengeance…i went to the MS Center Monday morning. There i was told that it was vertigo, but if it happened again, i must come back in to make sure that there wasn’t anything else going on…well, by Wednesday, things had gotten worse and i could take it no more! I called the MS Center and got an appt for 11 that morning for an MRI. By this time, all the worst scenarios were swimming around in my head. Stroke, brain bleed, the works…The MRI was done and i was able to get on the same person’s schedule whom i’d seen when i went in on Monday.
I still blame the MS…had it not been for MS, i would not be going to PT, i wouldn’t have been weaker last week Tuesday, i prolly wouldn’t have fallen and wouldn’t have a bruise (black eye) so there wouldn’t have been any pooling of blood in my sinuses to cause the infection!!
U know when u’re tite and the room starts spinning when u lie down? Imagine that X 100! oh my goodness, the room just wouldn’t stop spinning! it last about 6 secs, but i think it was 1 of the worst 6 secs of my life. It really was just AWFUL! it actually scared the shit out of me. it only happened once that nite and then again Monday morning, but MUCH MUCH less violently and only for about 2 secs that time. that’s when i called the ER i went to when i fell; they suggested that i call my doctor’s office.
I called and they told me to come in…i saw a doctor (mine doesn’t work on Tuesdays!) and she told me that i’d sufferred from Benign Positional Vertigo. It commonly occurs after head trauma and gets better over time. If it happened again she said that i’d have to go back in and pull up my MRI, which is scheduled for 6/3 right now. Needless to say, i was ah lil afraid to lie down last nite (both times it happened, i was lying down), but luckily it didn’t happen again.
Vertigo is something that happens to some MS patients…i’m hoping that the occurence was just as a result of my last fall and not an exacerbation/flare up coming on.