I'm at a place called VERTIGO

[quidditchgrrl]

So, vertigo. You know that feeling, when you've tied one a few on, and the room starts to spin? So you close your eyes to ward off that queasy feeling, and when you open your eyes again, you're twice as off-balance because everything looks still but your brain is still whirling on its stalk?

Yeah, that. Started Monday. Now making intermittent appearances at inconvenient times.

I have meclizine for it, but damn that stuff is like Dramamine x 1000.

Not sure why - weak eye muscle, crystalline deposits in my endolymphatic fluid - but I wish it would go away already! Maybe I did scramble my brains when I fell last week.

Vertigo is like migraines - people pooh-pooh it until THEY experience it, then OH BOY OH BOY. No work for me this week, which would be nice if I could actually do anything of substance. I'd rather be at work than bored. No, really. :)

Can't be on the PC too much; the glow gives me a terrible headache if I look at it for more than a few minutes at a time. There are only so many hours one can do crossword puzzles (I did an entire book of Wednesday NYT crosswords today, need to buy some Thursday ones) and listen to NPR in a day. I did get to listen to Nate and Rob Corddry on NPR today, which made me happy. Cute and awkward, both of them.

In good news, I've made it past the HR round in several of my job searches...here's hoping that I'll get a call for even one of those...

I hope most of you are having good weeks...and if you're not, let's shoot for a good weekend. :) *gentle hugs*

Comments

[alissomora.livejournal.com]

Wow, that doesn't sound good at all. Being a migraine sufferer, I can only sympathise and hope you feel better really soon ♥

[rainpuddle13.livejournal.com]

Ohh no! *hugs* Daddy had Vertigo last year that included a trip to the ER and a CT scan because he was deathly ill. He's pretty much gotten over it, but still gets woozey from time to time.

I do hope you get over it quickly and it's not too bothersome in the future!!!!

[modestyrabnott.livejournal.com]

I get that occasionally, and my doctor gave me meds that basically made me PASS OUT instantaneously, after which she suggested that instead I take regular non-drowsy dramamine. Which usually works pretty well, takes the edge off anyway.

It's a sucky feeling, innit? I hate feelng helpless.

[amanderpanderer.livejournal.com]

Vertigo is horrible. Sometimes sinus pressure causes mine...something in the air will change and I'll wake up and fall on the floor, or stagger as if drunk into the bathroom (no hang over at all) and bleeeeech! Nausea WINS!
My bit of advice: be very very careful standing up quickly when it gets bad. I passed out that way.

[blue-eye.livejournal.com]

Vertigo is terrible.

My mother had it bad for awhile.

[twistedrecesses.livejournal.com]

Best of luck with the jobs! And here's hoping the vertigo clears up soon :)

[ser523.livejournal.com]

Hmmm ... that sounds like what happens to me a lot. I never actually knew what it was ... interesting...

*huggles* Hope you feel better!

[hughroe.livejournal.com]

You might have gotten mild whiplash from that spill in the parking lot, I'm hoping it'll clear soon...

Good luck on the job search, I'd give you the old theater wish, but that might not be totally appropriate right now...