Vestibular Neuritis and Residual Chronic Dizziness

[tasneemakhtar]

I had this with VN. It’s taken me a year to be almost back to my normal self. The vertigo and the anxiety were awful. Thanks Doctor huge fan from Scotland 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿

[BeaRam-jgec]

I have 24/7 dizziness and the caloric testing of my VNG test showed a 30% deficiency in left ear. I was told it was due to a virus and I would recover. I had no hearing test and passed all tests that diagnosed vertigo (the ones in which your head is moved from side to side with and without goggles).

That was 10 months ago. My main issue is that I'm still feeling dizzy 24/7 and some headaches- I never had headaches before.

My MRI with contrast showed no MS, Parkinson's or other neurological issues that would case dizziness.

I did end up at the hospital, where the MRI was done, and they told me I was dizzy because my sodium level was low. Well, I was still dizzy after my sodium levels were normalized and that's why the neurologist sent me to vestibular testing and therapy at a dizziness clinic where they did the caloric testing and gave me the diagnosis. I also did vestibular therapy there. My overall balance is better now. It took two months to get the vestibular testing and results so I was never given antivirals or prednisone to mitigate symptoms. My nausea started in the second month and I had to start taking anti nausea medication by month four.

I agree that inflammation plays a role on this. One year before I got hit with VN, the doctor gave me the shingles vaccine as dictated per medical protocol.

I wonder if the vaccine had something to do with the VN?

Thank you for your work.

[Rosco]

Fantastic video... covered it perfectly, everything I wanted to know and nothing I didn't care to.

[ChrisArfath]

Again thank you doctor to share this knowledge which is out of the box 🙏

[jessiguenther]

Can you write out the antibody tests to check? And which doctor would you recommend to check these? Neuro, ent, endo?

[JonathanY-yz]

Thank you for the video! I am a male 21 years old, used to be very healthy and physically active, but since a vertigo hit following a flu (got tested for covid-19 antibodies recently which came out to be negative, so its unlikely that it was covid-19) two months ago, i have been experiencing dizziness and imbalance 24/7 that never went away a single time until now.
I went to a ENT Specialist and tested for BPPV which was negative, and we are going into direction of either vestibular neuritis or vestibular migraine (no hearing loss).

My question is, can I go back to doing my regular work outs, such as running and strength trainings? I looked for information related to this everywhere but it seems like there are not many young male patients suffering chronic dizziness and there are just no info whether it is okay to do intense physical activity with vestibular neuritis or not.
Is it okay to do them? Would it help me recover faster? Or would it make it even worse?

Plus, I was considering a military career (USAF), which obviously involves a lot of physical activity/stress and requires good physical shape (including balancing, things related to vision, whatnot), and was worried if my dizziness/imbalance would hinder this plan. I've heard that vestibular neuritis does get better over time, but does it REALLY get better, almost back to normal, enough to serve in a military or become a pilot?

Thank you for reading this, and if you have any info that might help me, plz let me know. Literally anything is appreciated, since i feel completely lost and stuck in the dark.

[countrygirl]

Can vestibular neuritis start without sudden vertigo? Mine is persistent dizziness, but not vertigo. I’m going on 3 weeks.