Hi, my name is Faith I am glad to know their are other people
out there feeling like I do.
My story starts in December
of this past year. It was 2 days before Christmas. I was
at Radio City with my kids watching the show when I looked
up with my left eye I noticed I was getting dizzy. This
was happening to me on and off for the past four years
I didn't understand it. I had gone to the eye doctor many
times complaining about my left eye hurting. He said it
was nothing.
The day after
the show I felt fine but towards afternoon I noticed things
kept getting further and further
away, I started to feel really weird. I thought I was
having a stroke. I went to the hospital and was admitted.
They
said that I had Nystagmus in my left eye so bad that
it was rolling. I could not even sit up in bed or stand
for
a few days. They sent me home with antivert. They did
and MRI and a Cat Scan, and said I had a Vestibular disorder.
I also went to the city and saw a well known DR to
get a second opinion, he said he could not find any tumors
ect.
I was attending
school at the time and to this day
I do not know how I finished, for this was a computer
application
course and my concentration was so bad that if it
was not for my classmates and their help I don't think
I
wuld have
made it. I had to drive to school 25 miles an hour
on the parkway because my vision in my left eye was so
bad.
I
still have concentration problems, the Nystagmus
is gone, but my left eye still seems not quite right.
I am
going
for a visual field test in May. I get extremely
depressed with this for I wake up everyday still feeling
dizzy.
Only now
I am beginning to accept this as a disease of some
sort. I have been going on interviews for jobs,
but im wondering what my concentration will be like when
I get
out there and what I will be able to handle.
When I go for walks I feel like the left side of my head
is
in
another world and my right side is OK. My driving
is
Ok
because
I don't have to move my head too much, shopping
is a lot harder I feel very weird.
This is so
hard to explain to
people unless they have this. Explaining it
to my
family is hard for they really don't understand it
because I
look and act normal. If anyone would like to
E-Mail me
after
reading this please feel free to do so.
Fato25@aol.com
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