Are You A Good Listener?
A doctor's appointment I had earlier in the month rocked my world. The hearing issues and vertigo I've experienced for the past few years and treated as inner ear were diagnosed as a rare form of migraines. I don't have headaches, or at least not what you would think of as a migraine. Instead it presents as vertigo, ringing in the ears, ear pressure and pain, and muffled hearing. I am chronic at this point, meaning there are symptoms occurring at least 15 days out of every month. Truthfully, I can't remember the last symptom free day I had. My hearing, according to the 45 minutes of testing, is in the normal range for someone my age. The problem is my brain simply isn't getting it. I'm really struggling with that concept and how a medication that is supposed to calm an overactive area of my brain can help fix my muffled hearing...which really isn't muffled at all. I am discouraged the treatment is trial and error, with a "goal of 50 percent i