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WHO SAID U WERE ALLOWED OUT OF PRISON

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I thought I qualified for a pardon, Mr. President.....?

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That's awesome! Congratulations on getting that fixed. It must be incredibly liberating!

Now, if you come across a cure for tinnitus, please share... I'm all ears! Lol

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That’s awesome Holly! Very happy for you.

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I had a similar procedure done when I was in my mid-20s ... and WOW! I know exactly how you feel! I had suffered from vertigo (related to my deafness) for most of my life. It wasn't constant, but I would have a few days every three or four months that I couldn't drive, walk fast, or go out into the sunlight because of the vertigo. After the treatment, my friends found me very entertaining because I kept breaking into song and silly dances. I was just so happy.

I'm so glad they were able to treat you! Enjoy your life outside of prison! :)

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I wonder how this will manifest itself for Holly. Song and dance? Josh, let us know, and have the camera ready!

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ha ha! Josh has very patiently listened to me explain that I'm happy, so happy, that I can get in and out of bed and up and down from the floor and tilt my head back in the shower and do anything else I want without any vertigo, for days now. He's even been tolerant of the meta-analysis of my being happy--how part of me is scared that being this happy for this long is inviting some kind of cosmic smackdown but this is so powerfully wonderful that (for once) I'm not even giving in to that voice. So I suspect he would tell you the manifestation is happy and enthusiastic verbal logorrhea. LMAO.

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"Don't get too happy" Ah the curse of self-awareness. Surely your friends have experienced relief before lol. I don't know what this must've been like but even neck strain headaches (due to craning the neck looking at a screen) is bad enough-- as far as I know the only remedy is two nights of sleep. I don't know if it's as debilitating as vertigo (i.e., the ability to be upright and oriented is taken for granted, I'm sure) but it's two days of "t.s."

Along the lines of "what if I'm not able to drive anymore?" perhaps you could do a rally. Or at least be in a sidecar. Something like go-karting seems small time, if overboard is the aim.

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"happy and enthusiastic verbal logorrhea"

This post wasn't long enough for my taste :)

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I was sitting in my office one day and looked up at a picture on the wall. It kept drifting to the left of my visual field and I would jerk my head to the right in compensation. Then the waves of seasick type nausea came. I got up and started walking to my boss’s office to get the ok to go home. But I kept falling to one side and holding onto the wall didn’t steady things enough to traverse that 200 foot chasm. I was too dizzy to walk.

A security officer arrived who called an ambulance and that entailed a $1,000 bill for a one mile drive. The ER doc didn’t have a clue and I was admitted to the hospital. All I was told was that it might be a stroke. That was terrifying. Two days of specialists and an MRI and CAT scan produced no diagnosis.

When I was discharged with no idea what had happened to me I googled the symptoms (of course). There was a local chiropractor who was a specialist in vertigo and the Epply maneuver. One session and it was fixed.

Thanks for educating people on this fairly common condition. It seems that we are often on our own in finding our way to good health.

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Congratulations!! And yes, it's really amazing how effective this treatment is. One and done!

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Normally I'm about gratitude and "good for you!" yet at the end I was hung up on the misdiagnosis and the expenses it incurred.

Anyway good for you :)

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Good advice. A friend of mine had the same experience with vertigo and the Epley Maneuver.

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I’m so happy for you, Holly. The world has opened back up for you.

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It totally, totally has. :-)

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Nice to hear *edit "read!"* a positive health-care experience. Dr. Mercola's substack (paywalled?) has a very good post regarding vertigo, including reference to the various maneuvers that can treat this form of vertigo, "including the Epley, Semont, Foster and Brandt-Daroff maneuvers (although the Brandt-Daroff maneuver is not considered a first-line treatment)." (citing Journal of Otology, https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6002633/) (Mercola post here:

https://takecontrol.substack.com/p/vertigo-causes-and-treatments).

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Enlightening. You are more than paying your way here. Bookmarking for future reference. "happy and enthusiastic verbal logorrhea" Burble away, lass; there is no such thing as enough happiness!

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I have a dear friend who had this done and it is truly miraculous--so happy that you were able to access this option!

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So so so happy for you! And thank you SO MUCH for sharing this info. I will definitely be passing news of these helpful treatment to one and all.

In a somewhat related experience, this week we took one of our cats to an integrative vet. We adopted her in January and she had some gastro (messy) issues, but it took several months to get the appointment. She had had some rough experiences before being taken to the shelter, was tiny and her spine seemed to curve more at the bottom, towards her tail, than our other cats' I noticed. I don't have much experience with cats, so I though, well, that's just how she's built. Maybe it was from malnourishment?

During the appointment, I noticed the vet moving his thumb and forefinger gently along her spine. "Are you giving her an adjustment?" I asked, dumbfound that this could be done for animals. Yes, he was, and it turns out her atlas and left pelvis (??) were off.

When she got home, she scrambled down the hall and leapt off the one step to the living room with a lightness I had never seen. She immediately got up on the sofa to cuddle with the other cats, which she'd never done, and in the days following has been much more social and lovey eyed, and I swear she's tried to say "thank you" with her body language. It's clear she's feeling good!

It is always wonderful to be reminded that we-- all of us, humans and animals-- can and do heal, body and soul.

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As a vertigo sufferer, I am SO VERY HAPPY for YOU!!! I have several forms of vertigo, beginning at 32yrs old: dislodged calcium crystals, nerve damage (I have poly-peripheral neuropathy due to Lupus and my body attacking all my peripheral nerves), migraine headaches and labrynthitis. It's HELL! That's why I'm so happy that your vertigo has been resolved!!! I use Epley and other maneuvers, and Riboflavin and Meclizine to control my life. I've gotten used to it and I don't drive, anymore, but I am almost 70.

Do your wrist heal okay? That's a bad situation with parking and snow or water...

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It can be difficult to identify the correct professional to deal with this; I am so glad that you did find a great doc.

Several years ago, I began experiencing occasional bouts of Benign Positional Vertigo. Being the silly-wump that I am, I immediately began to call this condition "bepover" (long O). It would wax and wane but was only bad for a week or two when it first manifested.

Last year I spent many months in physical therapy to work on my knee and hand (I'd had carpal and cubital tunnel surgery). My therapist was great, and then I happened to mention that as he would have me lay down on the table I sometimes got dizzy. Turns out that he had studied bepover and made it a point to become an expert of sorts. We had a session (without the cool equipment that your doctor had) where he had me lay down in various positions and watched my eye movement closely. When he'd identified the likely location of the crystals, he had me sit up. Cradling my head and turning it sharply to the one side, he had me lay back quickly. Vertigo gone!

BTW he was very much against the do-it-yourself videos because since you as a non-expert don't know exactly where the crystals are, you might move them into an even worse position if you just fling yourself about as per the YouTubes.

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Nah, c'mon mate! I'm sure I can solve my vertigo problems by just smackin' my head into the wall different ways!

Safety third!

;)

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Thanks for this. I’m on my way to the audiologist *and* the MRI machine to see if they can figure out my recent hearing issues and vertigo. Maybe this is an option for me.

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Update: I am far less deaf than the average patient in the waiting room; I can tell from all the yelling.

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ha ha ha I can sooooo picture this. I really hope you can have the same good outcome I had!!

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Thank you! This particular stop on my Medical Mystery Tour should help get to the bottom of what’s going on! I hope!

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Ok! I tested way better than last time. Went from a 40-db loss to a 25-db loss in my left ear. So now its mild instead of moderate loss, if I’m understanding correctly. The right ear is perfect, hearing-wise.

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Excellent!!!!!

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Very happy for you, Holly.

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So glad to see you posting again (I was worried I'd broken something in substack and wasn't seeing your updates) and even gladder to learn the good news.

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