I am living with chronic vertigo. I don’t know if it counts as an illness, but having this condition has made day to day living rather difficult. I feel strange all the time, there’s this constant swaying sensation, my head feels like it is wrapped in layers of gauze and on really bad days even my vision appears clouded. I can’t stand for prolonged periods when even sitting down doing nothing much feels like a drag.
I appear outwardly fine though, and even my family members forget that some basic actions that they think nothing of no longer come with ease for me. Everything I do, even holding onto, say, a plate, when I am doing the dishes, I am doing it with utmost deliberate effort because the internal swaying sensations I feel have me thinking I am going to tip over any moment and I will end up dropping whatever I am holding.
If seizures count as an illness, vertigo definitely does. I don’t get vertigo but I got mildly irritated once when someone was behind in the DVD clearance section of Walmart once and said “they need trigger warnings for vertigo now? What has society come to?” (it was a racing movie with lots of excessive dutch angles). I bet the whole aisle got distracted by my attempt at explaining sometimes these additions are just appreciated if not for some people being so obsessed with media freedums that they forget the human body exists.
I am living with chronic vertigo. I don’t know if it counts as an illness, but having this condition has made day to day living rather difficult. I feel strange all the time, there’s this constant swaying sensation, my head feels like it is wrapped in layers of gauze and on really bad days even my vision appears clouded. I can’t stand for prolonged periods when even sitting down doing nothing much feels like a drag.
I appear outwardly fine though, and even my family members forget that some basic actions that they think nothing of no longer come with ease for me. Everything I do, even holding onto, say, a plate, when I am doing the dishes, I am doing it with utmost deliberate effort because the internal swaying sensations I feel have me thinking I am going to tip over any moment and I will end up dropping whatever I am holding.
If seizures count as an illness, vertigo definitely does. I don’t get vertigo but I got mildly irritated once when someone was behind in the DVD clearance section of Walmart once and said “they need trigger warnings for vertigo now? What has society come to?” (it was a racing movie with lots of excessive dutch angles). I bet the whole aisle got distracted by my attempt at explaining sometimes these additions are just appreciated if not for some people being so obsessed with media freedums that they forget the human body exists.
Go see neuro. Get an mri at least.
Sympathies. Chronic vertigo is horrible, especially when it leads to nausea. Hope you find an effective treatment soon.