I had a "amusing" day yesterday...

[pw_cc_runner]

I woke up during the night feeling a little nauseous, but ended up falling back to sleep not thinking much of it. When I needed to get up for class at 9 and sat up in bed I got violently dizzy to the point of nausea. I stayed in bed a little longer only to fall back asleep and wake up at 10:30. At that point I got out of bed and made it half way to the bathroom only to suffer the same fate. As long as I remained laying flat on my back I felt perfectly fine, but I could not sit up without getting sick.

I was able to get a ride to the clinic around noon and the best part of the whole experience was making it half way up the steps only to get dizzy and have to lay down. Well that scared the shit out of the nurses at the front desk and completely by accident I got whisked right into a room past about 35 other people waiting in line. Fortunately no brain tumors or anything just case of what the doctor called vestibular neuronitis. So basically my brain spent a day at the amusement park on the tea cup ride while I was bored up the wall. I am better today, a little tipsy, but nothing I cant handle.

If you want the dry description:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vestibular_neuronitis

[xxtremeteam]

glad your ok

[pw_cc_runner]

Thanks Eric, I'm just glad to be upright again. There isn't much worse than feeling perfectly fine but being unable to move.

[xxtremeteam]

hey atleast it isnt swine flu(h1n1) I thought thats where this was heading and I bet that was scary as hell

[wrath]

That would scare the poo out of me. Glad you're alright. How long before you're back to normal?

[pw_cc_runner]

hey atleast it isnt swine flu(h1n1) I thought thats where this was heading and I bet that was scary as hell

It's bad enough I am one day behind on my work now. I definitely don't need to be a week or more behind. This area has one of the highest concentrations of it right now too.

[xxtremeteam]

get the vaccine if you can I can get mine at work next week as early as monday

[pw_cc_runner]

apparently the full on dizziness can last 3-5 days in most cases and up to two weeks. I sat up a lot and made myself sick because the doctor told me the more I fight it the faster my brain will figure out that its getting "bad signals" and ignore it. I'd be willing to guess I'll be normal by Monday.

[HITMAN]

Hope you are back on your feet ASAP. That is definitely some weird shit. I had a brief attack of something similar one morning. I woke up and as soon as I started to roll over, I got very dizzy, and my eyes went into an involuntary spasm called "Post Rotational Nystagmus". It scared the shit out of me, I thought I was having a stroke. Well I turned on to my other side and closed my eyes which improved things quite a bit, so I figured I'd lay there for a while and see if the situation would improve. I ended up falling back to sleep and when I woke up I was back to normal. Well, normal for me, anyway...

I talked to a friend that is a doctor later on about it and he said just moving too quickly after having your head in one position for a long time can bring on this sort of occurrence. The inner ear is definitely some strange territory for the senses when it ceases to function properly.

[JBs92Lude]

Wow, glad you are ok and it going away within the next few days. Nausea is the worst.

As for the comment about H1N1 - Yes, there are many cases of it around here. Two of the dorms at Marquette are quarantined due to the virus. We have been seeing a few cases at work, but less so since the doctors are not prescribing the anti-viral Tamiflu and Relenza anymore in that case that a resistance mutation forms. Wash your hands often, and when you cannot wash them, use 70% ethyl alcohol (hand sanitizer) which works very well also. Would like to see the least amount of people get sick from this.

[VroomPshhTsi]

I had that same dizziness-nausea thing this past summer. I thought it was from my hangover, but I didn't drink that much the night before and this lasted all day. Any time I sat up or stood up, straight to the bathroom to puke. Same as you, all I could do was lay down.

My friend's sister has Swine Flu and they share an apartment I go to often. She's almost over it though so hopefully nothing happens. We are being safe and keeping our distance.

[JBs92Lude]

My friend's sister has Swine Flu and they share an apartment I go to often. She's almost over it though so hopefully nothing happens. We are being safe and keeping our distance.

As long as she doesn't cough near you and you keep your hands away from your face and wash them often I would think you should be fine. I have been near many people who have had it and have not gotten the virus. Simply washed my hands a lot. Be sure you are getting plenty of rest to ensure your immune system is working at its best and I think you should be ok :thumbsup

[lordairgtar]

I told you not to take the brown blotter acid.

[pw_cc_runner]

We can now add to my wonderful weekend finding out on Sunday a rather large project is due this morning rather than Wednesday (I managed to get it finished and finished pretty well I believe) and having my Probe backed into by my cousin taking out the length of the passenger's door and part of the quarter panel. What an awesome weekend :alcoholic