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Help! Too sick for testing!

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lynn614
lynn614

I have had issues with dizziness, which may actually be vertigo and motion intolerance most of my life. However, I'm going on 4 months of constant vertigo. Actually, I'm not sure wha the difference is. At the beginning, I had severe spinning-the room was spinning and I couldn't move my head. Now, I have pisodes of a spinning sensation and also have a feeling of being off balance all the time. 

Meclizine helps a little sometimes but not enough. A big problem for me, right now, is that I need testing but there's no way that I can get it done with the way I feel. I can fight through pain but not dizziness. What makes it worse, is that I know that if I do get very ill while I'm at the testing facility, there's nothing that can be done for me. It's not like a doctor can just give me an injection to stop the vertigo.  

I need to find out if I have a brain tumor or MS but how is that supposed to happen?

How have you gotten through? There's no way that I can lie down on an MRI table for an hour. If I have a brain tumor, I guess it'll just have to kill me.

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  • Waffalobill
    Waffalobill lynn614

    Posted

    Doc can give you a script for nausea. Can also give you script for meds to help with dizziness. They can give a mild sedative to get threw the MRI.
    • lynn614
      lynn614 Waffalobill

      Posted

      Any idea what meds? I've had many MRIs in the past but never under these conditions. I already ahve myself convinced it's something dreadful anyway. 

    • Waffalobill
      Waffalobill lynn614

      Posted

      Depending on where you live I have seen ppl prescribed a few things. Meclazine did nothing for me. Got lucky one visit to the ER . Got a doc who suffers from vertigo. He gave me valium (diazepam). It helped alot. It's a very low dose, 2mg. Doesn't make you sleepy or drugged up.

    • gillian76726
      gillian76726 lynn614

      Posted

      MRI's for our kind of thing rarely show up anything sinister. It's more to check. So dont go,worrying about that.  If you go to a good testing facility p, clinic you tell them ahead of appointment you need meds. As you cant lie down etc etc without bad symptoms. They deal,with this a lot,,so know what to,do.

  • melanie61979
    melanie61979 lynn614

    Posted

    I have the same thing constant dizzy head motion intolerance . Throbbing headache and my ears ring to the sound of my heartbeat. Feels funny when I turn my head like my vision is not keeping up or is a bit behind. I have had VNG test for inner ear. A MRI of head and neck. Still searching for an answer. My MRI of the head took 20 min and yes your doc can give you a sedative . Push through it . You will be glad when it's done. Ask them for a cover for your eyes that helped me a lot. Good luck 👍

    • lynn614
      lynn614 melanie61979

      Posted

      I'm supposed to have MRI withand without contrast, MRA and an additional pituitary scan. I'll be in there or at least an hour, if not more. 

    • Waffalobill
      Waffalobill lynn614

      Posted

      I had a MRI with and without contrast. Also slices of middle ear. Whole thing was a hour or so. Wasn't to bad. Tech tells you when there between scans, asks you if your ok etc.

    • melanie61979
      melanie61979 lynn614

      Posted

      I see. You are having more lengthy testing. Still go for it I wish I could have had the contrast or the MRA. I think they show so much more detail. You can't start getting better without the tests they need. You will be fine. It won't be a joy by any means but they can give you something that will almost make you sleepy and you won't mind it. Have your doc prescribe it before you go thoughXx

  • riccosan
    riccosan lynn614

    Posted

    See a doctor who specializes It could be as simple as having the eply maneuver performed on you.   They have stand-up MRI machines if laying down trigers your vertigo.  Don't continue to suffer.  There is help.

    ricosan

    • lynn614
      lynn614 riccosan

      Posted

      I had a stand up MRI done on my neck about five years ago. I actually sat down during the procedure. The problem is, I don't think my insurance will pay for it and thr only facility that has that type of machine is not close.

      I'm not rally sure who to see-regular ENT, neurologist. I have other problems as well, so I'm very restricted to wheee I can go. This situation is especially bad for me because of a severe motion intolerance problem in addition to the dizziness. I can't use an elevator and there's no way that I can walk up multiple flights of stairs, while I'm dizzy. I'm really screwed. My situation was bad enough before this happened.

    • Waffalobill
      Waffalobill lynn614

      Posted

      Elevators bother me bad. Esp when they stop. Every doc I see is on the second floor to. Which is actually the third floor. Most apps I show up at least a half hour early so I can sit and relax before I go in.
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