Hi Guys
A quick update:
After more than several months off of medication I have recently started to take nortriptyline again. For a few weeks after stopping all medication I felt OK. I truly felt no different on the medication or off the medication but after 5 weeks or so medication free my symptoms intensified. I put it down to the fact that my symptoms always intensify every so often. It's a frequent occurrence but the intensity did not diminish. I found that when I was on medication I may experience the occasional moment of clarity and some steadiness randomly mixed in with the constant bad days, weeks, months. I would wait for these very brief less intense moments. HoweverI realised that medication free I was not getting any of those steadier moments. Not one.
The last several months have been pretty full on symptom wise. Constant daily head pressure, fuzzy vision, constant mild background headaches. With all of this my balance and dizziness have been worse overall. Very sensitive to motion etc.
Realising this I thought it best to start medication again and see how it goes. The plan is to increase the nortriptyline to max dosage over time which I have never done. If this fails my doctor is willing to try a number of other anti migraine medications. I guess if I begin seeing those little clearer moments again then maybe there is some truth in my current vestibular migraine diagnoses. As you know I have huge doubts about my problem being migraine related since nothing I have tried has helped relieve me of my constant vertigo and dizziness. It'll be 11 years of constant daily vertigo and balance problems this May. I can't quite believe it.
There are a number of things I am considering right now. In the 11 years I have suffered with this vestibular condition I have simply not been offered the necessary lab tests. Lab tests that are vital for a vestibular patient to get a solid diagnoses. Lab tests that only neuro otologists carry out.
Swimmyhead
A quick update:
After more than several months off of medication I have recently started to take nortriptyline again. For a few weeks after stopping all medication I felt OK. I truly felt no different on the medication or off the medication but after 5 weeks or so medication free my symptoms intensified. I put it down to the fact that my symptoms always intensify every so often. It's a frequent occurrence but the intensity did not diminish. I found that when I was on medication I may experience the occasional moment of clarity and some steadiness randomly mixed in with the constant bad days, weeks, months. I would wait for these very brief less intense moments. HoweverI realised that medication free I was not getting any of those steadier moments. Not one.
The last several months have been pretty full on symptom wise. Constant daily head pressure, fuzzy vision, constant mild background headaches. With all of this my balance and dizziness have been worse overall. Very sensitive to motion etc.
Realising this I thought it best to start medication again and see how it goes. The plan is to increase the nortriptyline to max dosage over time which I have never done. If this fails my doctor is willing to try a number of other anti migraine medications. I guess if I begin seeing those little clearer moments again then maybe there is some truth in my current vestibular migraine diagnoses. As you know I have huge doubts about my problem being migraine related since nothing I have tried has helped relieve me of my constant vertigo and dizziness. It'll be 11 years of constant daily vertigo and balance problems this May. I can't quite believe it.
There are a number of things I am considering right now. In the 11 years I have suffered with this vestibular condition I have simply not been offered the necessary lab tests. Lab tests that are vital for a vestibular patient to get a solid diagnoses. Lab tests that only neuro otologists carry out.
Swimmyhead
