Reason for Vertigo and balance problems after surgery

[Guest guest]

Hi everyone,

I attended a cochlear implant support meeting Saturday and our guest

speaker was Dr.Risvi from Bay city MI. He was so very helpful in

answering all of our questions and one of the questions that came up

was why do some people have balance and vertigo problems after

surgery even if they've never had a problem with it before..His

reply was that during surgery the balance nerve on the implanted

side is disturbed and he has yet to have anyone who hasn't

completely recovered from this over a period of time. If the problem

is severe, the dr can give the patient antivert to help with the

vertigo. This makes perfect sense to me..I don't know if there is

anyone who hasn't recovered completely outside of Dr. Risvi's

patients, but there you have a simple explanation to a sometimes

very aggravting problem.

Hugs,

Silly MI