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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited October 2011

    Strangely, I have been having bouts of vertigo in glass elevators and even my office which has glass windows looking down 8 floors. Hmmm, maybe vertigo is a BC thing. Grrrrr.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

      I used to collect hot air balloons and always wanted to go for a ride in one....used to want to go to that big festival in NM, but now want to go to Brugges, thanks to you, Lisa. 

    My father takes antivert for vertigo.

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

      I used to collect hot air balloons and always wanted to go for a ride in one....used to want to go to that big festival in NM, but now want to go to Brugges, thanks to you, Lisa. 

    My father takes antivert for vertigo.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited October 2011

    Marybe, good choice...Bruges...you would love it..

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited October 2011

    Marybe, can I go with you to Burges????  What a great trip that would be.  Just found out that DD#1 and her DH's next duty station may be Japan!  Never been there, but look very much like a trip there is in my future if that is where they wind up after being in Monterey, CA.  Will maybe know more definate plan after my visit there in a couple of weeks.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited October 2011

    Amyjo, where are they going?? Sasebo , Yokuska??

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

      The lst place I have to go is MDAnderson .....after that I will start planning some real trips.  My friend Kris said yes she will go with me and we can stay with her ex in Houston, now all I have to do is wait for the word from the onco there if he thinks it will be worth my while to make another trip.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited October 2011

    ((Marybe)) Sending good vibes your way!

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited October 2011

    Lisa - I have no idea where they would be going if they do indeed wind up going to Japan.  I will let you know if I find out for sure.

    Marybe - Let me know if you will be going to MDA.  I have a sister that lives in the greater Houston area and I could come be there with you too if you want me to be there.  I am sure my little sister would not mind a visit from me.  She keeps asking me to come. 

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  • duckyb1
    duckyb1 Member Posts: 13,369
    edited October 2011

    mom2westies................The vertigo is horrible when it happens........the exercise does work, and it was taught to me by a therapist in the audiology dept. at a hospital I went to..................This is how it came about....................I was being measured for hearing aids, and they put this goop in your ear which is like soft putty.............it stays for a while until it hardens, and then they take it out, and that gives them the mold for your hearing aid...........................

    Ok, of course  nothing ever goes smoothly for me, or without something "eventful"............well when the woman went to take the mold out of my right ear, it would not come out easily..............this friggin thing as she tugged on it, hurt like hell, and felt like she was trying to pull my brains out of my ear.

    She  kept trying, and I said "either I am going to spend the rest of my life with this sucker in my ear, or you better find some way, or someone to get it the hell out.

    Well she called an ENT specialist within the hospital, and her and I proceed to walk from the Medical Building, into the Main Hospital where this ENT had his office.......................picture this..............I am walking trying to be "coy" while this friggin stick is protruding out of my ear, which has the "mold piece" still at the other end , in my ear................

    When we got to the Dr. office, he took me right in, maneuvered the friggin thing out of my ear, and somehow the vertigo question came up, and he recommended I go to a Hearing and Balance Center, which was right in the hospital to have it checked out................................Thus I was diagnosed with BPV...............or Vertigo......................

    Moral of the story............the  hearing aids never fit right, drove me crazy.  They are in my bedroom drawer, and I still walk around saying "huh.....what did you say"...............ok, I'm going to find the Vodka now.

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited October 2011

    Ducky!!! I had the green goop too!!! Mine came out with a string like a tampon. Damn stupid looking if you ask me. I, too, have hearing aids in the drawer. I heard TOO much. A lot of stuff I wasn't interested in, so now, if I'm interested, I, too, say "huh?"

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited October 2011

    Barbe, you crack me up. And I needed a laugh. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

       Barb,  I didn't know about your back til I read it on FB.  So sorry....you have been having a bad run of it.   If my Dad didn't wear his hearing aids he would be completly deaf.  My ears are still good.....one of the few things I still have going for me. 

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited October 2011

    Yes, Marybe, I can hear despite the years of being in a rock band. DH, not so much but he can still hear. But he plays the TV so loud, I have to go outside. Even being upstairs, I can hear every whisper on the TV. Ugh. Anyway, trying to get in to see his naprapath on Monday. Hope I spelled that right. Hopefully, he can fix me up, He fixes Marty up in one visit. 

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited October 2011

    My DH watches the TV at the "21" level. I have to turn it up to "63"!!!! We did finally get some speakers to aim the sound forward. For some dumb reason, the sound comes out of the side of the TV!

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  • Isabella4
    Isabella4 Member Posts: 2,166
    edited October 2011

    Barb...so sorry about your back. I just saw this on FB.

    The sciatic nerve is pure murder. I've had sciatica twice, and I'd really rather have been in labour !

    All of the pain in my back now is caused by damage to my last 5 vertebra, which are in turn pushing into the sciatic nerve, in 3 places. The pain doesn't go right down my legs, as it did with normal sciatica, it just sits at the base of my back, and there seems to be no way to deaden it now....apart from a large gin and a sleeping pill ! My 2 episodes of sciatica lasted approx 12 and 17 weeks....so I really hope someone can shift yours before it sets in.

    Thinking of you. Get well soon. 

    Isabella.

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited October 2011

    Barb - what does a naprapath do?  I have never heard of that one.  I did something to my back this morning getting a towel out of the warmer.  Guess I twisted funny as I was reaching anyway I got numb from my fingertips to my toes and my back hurt so bad I could hardly breath for a little while.  Fortunately the numb tingling feeling is gone unless I twist a certain way, but that one spot on my back now feels like a big bad bruise would feel.

    My DH talks so soft that I sometimes cannot tell what he is saying but he listens to the TV so loud that I am constantly turning it down and when I talk to him he says huh all the time.  So when we watch TV I tell him he needs his hearing checked and when he is trying to talk to me he tells me I need to have my hearing checked!  Maybe we both need to get our hearing checked to see which one really has the problem hearing.  My money is on he is the one with the hearing problem.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited October 2011

    I have very very good hearing and my husband blasts the tv...

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited October 2011

    What is the deal with the men wanting the TV to be so LOUD???

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited October 2011

    Maybe it is a power struggle play, amy, but my dh is in denial about his hearing

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  • 3jaysmom
    3jaysmom Member Posts: 4,266
    edited October 2011

    poor mur: we know he can't hear nada! he's too young for medicare; and those hearing aids are real$$$$$his favorite saying is : "say again..." like a quesrion. he's really going deaf. like, he doesn't hear me, and believe me, ask anyone, i don't have this whispery voice!!hahaha he has no denial, tho, we just have to learn to adjusy...

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited October 2011

    Well, taking it easy for the weekend seems to have helped. I really want to know what caused this, though. I guess I want to be 100% sure it isn't mets. I don't think you can see mets on a regular xray. Anyway, thanks for the advice. I am going to call DH's naprapath. AJ, a naprapath is sort of like a chiropracter but they also do deep massage and do adjustments by touch and they don't do the loud CRACKing things. It is more tissue, as opposed to bone. 

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  • Anonymous
    Anonymous Member Posts: 1,376
    edited October 2011

       Barb,  It is large enough, mets do show up on xrays....my orthopedic guy was the one who found the mets in my sacrum that time and sent me for a follow-up MRI and biopsy.....and last time I saw him he showed me the mets in my shoulders, but they are big and we already knew they were there.Also when it was in my lung, it showed up on a chest xray.     However, I don't think that is the case with yours....it probably really is sciatica or having a slight build like you do, could it be possible you have a hairline fracture?( you tell me you are getting fat, but I don't buy that at all).   Some people crack ribs just by coughing so who is to say a twist or turn the wrong way couldn't cause a hairline fracture.  All supposition and I think it is perfectly normal for people who have had BC to think OMG, it just might be..........so you are wise to follow up and find out for sure.  

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited October 2011

    Barb, are you sure it's not a case of Idonwannawork Hereanymore? That can get quite severe! So be careful. I just had yet another epidural to the base of my spine. It injects steroids and botox and stuff to freeze the area for quite a while. It lasts from a week to a year. You might want to consider iet.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited October 2011

    Barbe, I may have that syndrome. I may try the epidural is this doesn't improve. 

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  • Elisimo
    Elisimo Member Posts: 1,601
    edited October 2011

    Barb- before you do any "treatment" be sure of what you are dealing with.  The naprapath may be just the thing to fix you up without getting any kind of other treatment.  Take care my dear friend.  And do follow up with your drs and Marybe is right that some mets do show up on X-rays, both my lung and bone mets showed up on x-rays.  Not sure if they would be apt to show soft tissue mets or not. Use all the tools available to get things checked out.  I am praying that a new job opens up soon for you that will have less travel and way less stress.

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  • BarbaraA
    BarbaraA Member Posts: 7,378
    edited October 2011

    Thanks, AJ. Am feeling better.

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited October 2011

    some days I just feel like this.............

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  • barbe1958
    barbe1958 Member Posts: 19,757
    edited October 2011

    Some days I LOOK like that...

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  • SoCalLisa
    SoCalLisa Member Posts: 13,961
    edited October 2011

    too funny barbe

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