Update

Hi guys

Today I completed the Insanity Asylum workout regime. It was really, really tough for sure but I did it and I am proud of myself. It was a 30 day workout regime but I completed it in 35 days due to the fact that I woke up last week looking like the elephant man and in enormous pain. I had developed an abscess on my gum. It has to be one of the most painful things I have ever experienced. Fortunately I saw the dentist and was given some antibiotics and was told I have to have a wisdom tooth pulled (oh the joy).

So after nearly four months of Insanity workouts I have to say I feel physically great but my head still is the dizzy vertigo ridden thing it was before I began all this. As I have said before, the medication I have been taking this past year has helped reduce the daily symptoms intensity but has not completely relieved me of the vertigo with some days, evenings and weeks still pretty vile. All this exercise has not cured me but I certainly gave it my best shot. I will relax now over Christmas and I hope that next year I will find a solution and become vertigo/dizzy free.

Merry christmas

Swimmyhead

Hi Guys

I have taken a turn for the worse this weekend, all of my symptoms are back in full force once again making moving my head or tracking movement pretty much unbearable. it is so frustrating. Another year passes and I am still stuck dealing with these symptoms every minute of everyday. I was 27 when the vertigo hit me and in 1 month I will be 34. Life is passing me by and I getting really worried for my future.

This past year I have been having major issues in trying to arrange a referral to the specialist that I saw way back in 2012. He was brilliant and gave me hope. The medications I am currently taking are because of him and they have been the only thing that have helped me somewhat. Unfortunately due to referral issues I have not been able to push on with my treatment, I have been left in limbo. Anyway I won't go into it all here but my aim is to see him again in the new year and start the proposed treatment plan that I very much need. This Christmas will be my 7th Christmas plagued still by vertigo. Next year has to be different.

Part of the reason I have been working out is because I have felt that I needed to be pro active whilst waiting for my referral to be sorted.

I am still working out with just 10 workouts left of Insanity the Asylum. These workouts are the hardest workouts ever. My coordination and balance can go crazy whilst trying to complete the exercises. It's damn hard fighting the visual vertigo and the accompanying sensations but I push through it sill determined to beat the vertigo out of me. I am amazed that I have been able to perform and continue such a demanding fitness regime given the circumstances. These workouts are designed to exhaust already fit guys and girls. How I am doing it I don't know. Physically I am in great shape, my body visually looks and feels healthy. Toned and lean with a six pack to boot. Yet my head still doesn't work. How can this be?

I still have major trouble balance wise in the dark, I still have to be aware of turning to quickly or bending over. My head always feels like it is pressured and swimming and my vision is still out of sync and bouncy. Simple tasks such as walking down the drive or crossing the road are still difficult because of the vertigo sensations. Yet I am doing insanity workouts everyday. How can this be? I am a walking contradiction.

Last night I went for a walk. I began to cross the road (in the dark). As I stepped off the pavement into the road a car came flying towards me from my right and another appeared on my left. If you suffer from vertigo you will know just how frightening and what a sudden attack on the senses this truly is. The movement of the cars, the dark environment, the stepping off of the curb and the inability to look both ways quickly enough all combine to cause some horrible vertigo sensations. The road suddenly feels like it slides(drops) beneath me, what feels like G force inside my head pushes and pulls in all direction, my vision becomes blurred and out of sync whilst any sense I have of myself in space completely dissolves. Only fellow sufferers will understand what I have just said. I expect others will think I am crazy.

Seriously, simply crossing the road has become a dangerous task. I should not have to live like this at my age or any age for that matter.

Here is an informative article about vertigo and the different causes and treatments.

Keep going people

Swimmyhead