Vertigo update

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Hello all,

I am beginning to feel like I live in Never Never Land. I had the

lumbar puncture last week and saw the neurologist today. He says the

Lyme test from IgeneX isn't back yet, but when I showed him my test

from 3 years ago he got real annoyed and said he didn't know what

that test even meant.

All my other tests he said are negative or sort of. In any case he

plainly stated he had no intention of treating me with any

antibiotics such as ceftriaxone - never mind when my son had the same

symptoms it fixed him just fine. My son did have an abnormal MRI, but

all of my tests look too normal.

Meanwhile he write me a script for Provigil. I almost started

screaming. He wondered if my insurance would cover it. I told him I

slept fine and wasn't sleepy - just felt like I didn't have enough

oxygen ever. He said I should get the pulse ox test run. I said it

was always normal - no lower than 95. So then he gets this grin on

his face and says, " Well, there, your oxygen levels are fine.

The whole time I am in his office all three visits I get high blood

pressure 160 over 100 or over 90, no lower, and I feel like I am

going crazy - an anxiety attack. The only other two places I get like

this are two other doctors' buildings that are mold contaminated.

Well, I get that way in smokey casinos too - probably the mold

carried on the smoke molecules.

At this point my jaw is feeling much better, but the vertigo,

pressure headache and pain in my ear are about the same - certainly

no better.

I have an apt. with my reasonably good doctor who was doing the MP on

Dec. 12. I will have all the studies sent to her and see if she can

be talked into trying an antibiotic istead of Provigil.

Any thoughts? Oh, my spinal pressure was 210, which is above normal

but not so high they consider it a problem.

a C.

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Just something to add to your data collection. Root canals often seem to work because by deadening the nerve, there's no longer any pain in the tooth, making it appear that the infection is gone, when in reality it isn't. The indicator is just gone. pjeanneus <pj7@...> wrote: Hi ,This all started with three things six months ago.I got my throat sprayed and vocal cords examined. The vocal cords look normal but they are not. I

felt flu-like symptoms within 24 hours. Then I had a tooth filled 4 days later and got vertigo and severe thrush in 24 hours.I was given balance therapy and diagnosed with vestibular nerve damage. The therapy improved my balance and helped my tendons build again, but the underlying symptoms of pressure headache severe jaw pain and vertigo continued.After much agonizing over what to do about a second tooth I got a root canal and over the next two weeks the jaw pain healed, but the ear pain and pressure headache and vertigo continue.The neuro office seems to be mold contaminated. I get spacey and high blood pressure while in there. I also cleaned out a stack of books and magazines beside my bed at home, and I seem to have been slightly better since. I was so sick two days before that, that I went to the emergency room. I have to be pretty sick to do that.Is this Lyme? Fungal infection? Other? The

neuro refuses to treat me with anything but modafinil because the main symptom I could think of today in my spacey state in his office was a sense like not having enough oxygen. I actually bought a dental guard thinking maybe I was grinding my teeth. I think I may have been grinding when I was in so much pain from the inflamed nerve in the bad tooth, but I don't have that sense at all now - just the ongoing headache and vertigo.Aren't you sorry you asked?a> > Jaw eh, and headaches? What was up with the jaw, was that a tooth or > something else? Have you looked into bruxism? > > Sorry if I asked you this already, I don't remember... and I'm a bit > of a bruxism evangelist maybe, but what can I do about that, probably > nothing. It's been on my mind as I've attempted to sort out a couple > symptoms that have been reviving on me this

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