Never Give Up Folks...Happy ending

Beautiful picture, beautiful family, wonderful life! So happy for you Joe.

 

Thanks for the positive vibe!!

 

I had those thoughts too, had my laby back in August 2019 after many vertigo attacks and one drop attack. My world stopped spinning on that day,(lol) back to work and play 100%. Life is good!

 

I am new so what is Laby?

 

Hi Adam. Welcome. "Laby" stands for labrinthectomy - a surgical procedure on the inner ear. It improves vertigo but will destroy hearing in that ear so it's a trade off and usually a last resort type option when nothing is helping the vertigo...

 

When I first got diagnosed I was told it was an option. At that point I had not suffered any vertigo so thought the doc was nuts. Lose my hearing permanently?? No way. But when lying on the floor unable to move and pucking non stop... it doesn't seem like such a bad option after all. Hopefully it does not come to that for me. As it is I lose my hearing in the ear a few times a year but it always comes back. I would hate to lose it for good.

Does that operation also get rid of the tinnitus? It seems to me I was told it would.

 

I do have tinnitus in the dead ear, on a scale of 10 it's about a 3, it's very tolerable. I wear a set of cross-over hearing aids that help in most instances, but can't determine direction of sound of course. After suffering 18 months of ongoing vertigo, the laby was the biggest decision in my life, and it was the best thing I ever did.