When I wake in the morning I have slight dizziness. Not severe, but enough to be distracting and uncomfortable. It usually eases in an hour or two, but I want to speed the transition. Lately, after waking, instead of sitting in the recliner kinda dizzy and depressed about it, I've taken a more active approach toward the dizzy. So instead of taking it easy, I walk around the house (in the bigger more open rooms) and the back yard. I think this may be helpful in shaking the "minor" morning dizzy-webs. My thinking being: Instead of laying on the sofa, maybe the eyes/brain need to be challenged a bit. To help them get their bearings. Also, hanging out in smaller areas with lots of detail, like the kitchen, isn't a good idea. So I plan to get my coffee and get out of the kitchen. I may walk around the block first thing every morning with a cup of coffee. Longer, open views and big skies are easier on the dizzy anyway. I'll update next week and let you know if this helps gets the senses adjusted quicker (eases the AM dizziness quicker than just sitting around). Wonder if anyone else with this nagging, "waking up", dizziness has a morning ritual that helps.
Pupper, I am dizzy every morning I get up, and sick feeling. It takes me an hour to get myself together. I am not sure my morning reaction is physiological or psychological. It helps to wash my face and just take a second. It is not a good feeling and I also have a sense of panic. I don't understand it. I use to have serious brain fog, but this has eased somewhat. I am not sure what you call this. The words that come to mind are unstable, scared, sometimes panicky, light headed, a bit foggy, and dizzy. I have never had this until this illness started with me.
Hello Pupper I have had several gent injections in my left ear and I often feel very shaky after waking up. I have a dog and need to take her for her morning walk and I usually find out on the walk what kind of day it will be. Sometimes I go for the walk and come back feeling a lot better, if its a really bad day I'll feel even worse and may not be able to do much more that day. I'm trying to find an audiologist who can help me with some vestibular rehab as I've been advised that this is will what help. baloo
Baloo, Your ENT/Oto should refer you to a physical therapist for vestibular rehab. I just started on Friday so I cannot attest to its effectiveness yet but I had one visit and now I have the exercises to do daily. Since I'm also on 5 other treatments I may never know if the VR is helping but I won't let that deter me.
Pupper - for whatever reason, I always get my dizziness in the late afternoon or early evening. If I lay on the couch and watch television or go to bed and read, I'm fine. But if I get up to walk around for any reason, I feel like I'm going to fall or run into something. The mold count here in Cincinnati has been really high and that is one of the things I'm getting allergy shots for so my allergist put me on Allegra every day. That seemed to help for about a week and a half, but then the last few days, sure enough, about 7:00 I started getting dizzy again. I honestly can't pinpoint why I get dizzy nearly every day at that time, but I could almost set my watch by it!
Thanks for the replies. JimmyAlvin, man, you have some serious issues. I look at your posts and shake my head. You're in my thoughts, I hope the docs get it all figured out soon. Baloo, I'm kinda different than you. I can feel great in the morning...but that ISN'T a sign of a good day. Mine varies too much. In fact, if I'm REALLY having a good day I get worried, because it seems I get slammed extra hard later that evening. As if my Meniere's is playing good-cop bad-cop with me. TLB, like you, most days my MM is like clockwork. Yours starts at 7PM. Mine starts about 4PM. My doc says it's probably because the brain gets tired by late afternoon. I'm not so sure. But, yeah, it's weird how on schedule MM can be.
Yes Pupper, my issues are serious, and I am trying not to let this ruin my life since I just retired. It is a struggle and sometimes I want to give up....but I hope for a better day. The last two days have not been good for me....horrific roaring and ringing, huge hearing loss and hearing distortions, and almost constantly dizzy and lightheaded. Trying to fight being depressed about it...