The road less travelled...

Those who follow my adventures may remember me talking about feeling ill and generally pants. If not, please feel free to remind yourself here and at various intervals since then. Well, I had a CT scan two weeks ago, which was clear (thankfully) and today I went to see a neurologist. The result of that was that I now have a diagnosis. I'm suffering from vestibular neuronitis. Basically, it's to do with the inner ear. One of the vestibular nerves leading to my brain (those are the ones that send the 'I'm standing up okay and everything's find down this end, thanks' messages) are being squeezed by inflammation in the surrounding tissue. As a result, they're actually sending 'oh, God, help, I think I'm going to die here' messages, which my brain somehow interprets as 'oh, God, I'm falling over and thus I should be suffering badly from vertigo and general crappiness, so let's just all indulge in that for a few moments shall we? Jolly good!' feelings and shares them with the rest of my body. Hence me feeling like I'm about to keel over at odd intervals.

The bad news is that there is not a lot I can do about it. Eventually my brain will learn to ignore what my neurologist fondly called the 'crap' it is receiving from my squashed nerves and I won't get vertigo, etc., anymore. Until then, I just have to keep moving as much as I can and give in when I feel really bad. Which I think is good news... :-/

Oh, and I have to have an MRI on Friday, just to check it's only a virus that's causing the inflammation around the vestibular nerve, and not, say, a tumor. But as there was nothing on the CT, I'm not worried about it, and neither is my neurologist. So yay for that.

Okay, back to your regular scheduled 'Peace publication' party! *puts on party hat again*