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Is it Labyrinthitis?

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jen78653
jen78653

Hi,

About ten days ago, I was sitting at my desk and had a ten second episode of the room spinning. It quickly passed and I felt a little unbalanced. About two days later, my left ear and headache started to really hurt bad and I saw a doctor online (due to covid) and they prescribed doxycycyline. I very slowly had my ear stop hurting by applying heat, motrin and taking the antibiotics. The slight dizziness/unbalanced feeling still was there. I took dramamine and it helped some.

Now, I have been on antibiotics for a week and my ear barely hurts. But I still feel unbalanced/swaying (especially in the morning). I have been sleeping sitting up to help my ear drain. I never had ringing in the ear or lost any hearing.

I tried the BBPV exercises but I don't think it is that as I don't have other symptoms. The one doctor thought it might be labryinthitis. I started doing vestibular exercises on Youtube and I was able to get through most of them with just very minor swaying.

Any thoughts? When will I recover? I was not sick so doctor thinks it might be allergy related as we moved to a home that backs to a forest and everything is in bloom now. I started taking FLonase and Zyrtec as well.

Any suggestions or thoughts would be helpful.

Jen

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  • eagle33050
    eagle33050 jen78653

    Posted

    hi jen,

    i get that feeling after an episode of vertigo. had it for about 12 days feeling better last 2 days although last night felt like i was swaying when laying down. it can last a few weeks. if you keep to the exercises doing them twice a day for 2 weeks you should start feeling better.

    • jen78653
      jen78653 eagle33050

      Posted

      Thank you so much for replying. Do you get vertigo often? That was my first episode ever. And do you also get ear pain? What have you been diagnosed with?

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