Life With Vestibular Migraine: 16 Simple Activities You Take For Granted Before Losing Your Balance.

LIFE-ISMS

Life With Vestibular Migraine: 16 Simple Activities You Take For Granted Before Losing Your Balance.

Do you remember the moment your doctor told you that you had vestibular migraine? If you were like me, you probably thought… “Yeah, but I don’t have a headache. I’m DIZZY!” (Only to find out later that migraine isn’t always associated with a headache.) Flash forward to before that moment. The time in your life when you could do just about anything without feeling as if you just got off the merry-go-round. Pssh, before your vestibular disorder, you probably recovered...

March 5, 2021

“Why Does My Baby Smell Like Maple Syrup?”

Does your baby smell sweet? Possibly like maple syrup? If you’re like me, you probably assume that your little one got into the pantry again. Declan is always getting into something, and for about two weeks recently, I could swear I was smelling maple syrup. As any mom would, I chalked it up to him exploring the kitchen. But something kept happening. Day after day, he kept smelling like syrup. I was pretty sure I put the syrup out of...

January 26, 2021

VESTIBULAR MIGRAINE AND LIGHT SENSITIVITY: HOW LIGHTS CAUSE MY SCARIEST SYMPTOMS

When you think of vestibular migraine, the first symptom that comes to mind is dizziness. And why wouldn’t it? Dizziness is typically the first symptom that creates panic. When your whole world is suddenly spinning, it’s all you can focus on. While dizziness was definitely the symptom that changed my life as I knew it, light sensitivity and migraine aura wasn’t far behind it. For me, light sensitivity is often the first symptom to be aggravated, and it typically causes...

January 3, 2021

A COVID CHRISTMAS: MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE CORONAVIRUS

When the Coronavirus began to spread worldwide, I think it’s reasonable to suggest that all of us experienced (and are still experiencing) some level of fear. The fear of it spreading to you or your friends and family and if you did get it, would you survive? Part of me was also in deep denial that it could happen to me. I’m not sure why when I had the last virus that swept the U.S. in 2009, aka Swine Flu....

November 24, 2020

6 Unique Gift Ideas For Someone Living With Migraine

This last year is such a blur. I feel like just yesterday we were looking at the memes of how your face progressively looked stressed as quarantine dragged on for continuous months. And here we are in November. Just days away from Thanksgiving and already thinking about what gifts to give family members this holiday season. My mom keeps asking me for a list, but with nowhere to go and not much to do in this state of the world,...

November 11, 2020

6 Myths Of Motherhood: How You’ll Eventually Turn Into “That Mom”

There was a reason I waited ’til 30 to become a mom. I knew I was selfish. I had a lot I wanted to do, places to see and events to attend. When I started to go to bed at 10 PM no matter if it was a Monday or Saturday and I was too tired to go out on a Friday night, I knew that I was getting to the point where having kids wouldn’t change my life too...

October 26, 2020

Pregnancy and Post Baby: My Current Vestibular Migraine Treatment Plan

It’s crazy to think that four years ago, I would first experience the dizzy symptoms of a life-changing disorder. Life how I knew it was about to change forever. I would have to leave my job, reevaluate friendships, see several doctors. All this while trying to tell myself I wasn’t crazy, undergo extensive testing, and be handed a treatment plan to help me feel “normal.” In four years, I’ve been through quite the ringer. I’ve tried various pill cocktails that...

September 22, 2020

5 Stages Of Grief In Accepting Your Chronic Illness

She told me that I would have to learn to mourn my old life to be able to accept my new normal.

July 13, 2020

How To Cope With A Vestibular Migraine Attack With An Infant

Prior to having a baby, I could easily kick my feet up, shut the blinds and pray for my migraine attacks to pass. However, I never understood how real parenthood was until I recently experienced a 10-day stretch of constant dizziness, light sensitivity and headaches. You know that Nyquil commercial where the parents are sick and go ask their child if they can take the day off? I relate to that commercial on a whole different level. I wanted to...

May 18, 2020

5 Tips On How I’m Managing My Vestibular Migraine Postpartum

Will my vestibular symptoms flare up if I have a baby? That question was something that weighed on my mind prior to getting pregnant and during my pregnancy journey. I had heard so many horror stories of women who were either diagnosed with VM after having a baby or experienced an increase in dizziness after having their VM managed for several years. Well, here I am 7 weeks postpartum, and I’m dealing with dizziness like I did when I first...