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My Story…27 years ill and finally free!

Post a new topicby livingwith on Mon Jun 30, 2008 2:01 pm


I hope my story may help someone. I used to look on the web constantly in hopes to find something to help myself in other peoples experiences.
I had Terrible episodes of vertigo for 27 years. They began seemingly out of nowhere when I was 8 years old. No real other symptoms other than the nausea etc that comes with the room violently spinning so that all I could do was lay on my back…usually for a full 24 hours until it would stop. It was fairly infrequent at first…maybe once or twic...Read the full article
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Re: My Story…27 years ill and finally free!

Post a new topicby LucyW on Thu Jul 17, 2008 3:42 am

What a great post - thanks for sharing. I'm going to look up that medication you take. Appart from a diagnosis of cerabella ataxia (which is an increadibly broad diagnosis), there has also been mention of atypical migraine. I'm going to my GP next Wed I'll see what she says.
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