Vestibular Disorder

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January 23, 2019

How To Live A Normal-“ish” Life With Vestibular Migraines

As an ambassador for VEDA, I receive a lot of emails from other vestibular disorder sufferers about my diet, fitness, and how I live a normal life. Unfortunately, experiencing the beginnings of a vestibular diagnosis tends to take most of us down the same dark road. It’s easy to lose hope and hard for a lot of us to imagine our “new normal” aside from being a prisoner of your house. So many people, like me, find themselves in the...

December 17, 2018

Managing Your Vestibular Migraine During The Holidays

The holidays can be a fun, yet stressful time, especially if you’ve been recently diagnosed with vestibular migraines. It can be hard to want to go to a party when you’re fearful the food, lights, noise and overall environment are going to cause you to spin into a dizzy spell. While I wish I could tell you I had all of the perfected tips to make company parties, family/friend’s holiday parties and traveling home a breeze, I can give you...

October 31, 2018

Scared Dizzy: How I’ve Adjusted To A Vestibular Disorder Two Years Later

Since I can remember, Halloween has always been something I look forward to each year. I love dressing up, the decorations, haunted houses, and scary movies.  And while I patiently wait for October 31st each year, it now has a new significance to me. You see, two years ago on Halloween night, an evening at home watching a scary movie with my husband, turned into a horror well beyond the two-hour rental.  What felt like a stroke mixed with a...

September 20, 2018

Persevere Through The Dizziness – Do The Activities That You Love

Something that has inspired me since being diagnosed with a vestibular disorder is seeing others “defeating their dizziness” by not giving up on the things they loved pre-diagnosis. I initially had a hard time with any hobby or activity that I used to love for fear of falling or feeling embarrassed that I looked drunk. However, a lot of time and healing has passed, and along with that, has come the confidence to get myself out of my dizzy comfort...

September 16, 2018

Balance Awareness Week 2018: Help Vestibular Patients Find Balance

October will be the two-year anniversary of my life-changing dizzy symptoms that would later reveal itself as a diagnosis of vestibular migraines and vestibular neuritis – permanently damaging my vestibular nerve. I will never be able to forget how a night home watching a scary movie with my husband turned into a horror well beyond the two-hour rental. Sensations of falling, spinning and melting into my couch convinced me I was having a stroke, but really, I would learn that...

August 22, 2018

9 Silent Symptoms Vestibular Disorder Patients Fight Through Every Day

If you have a chronic invisible illness, you know all too well that it’s easy for your friends and family to forget that you’re battling a disease each day. Heck, if you’re like me, you don’t even mention your daily symptoms anymore because what’s the point? Unless I’m needing to drive somewhere or am expected to go out for a birthday at the club, I don’t bore my inner circle with my tales of dizziness. However, while I’ve come a...