A year after the gent injections and short term disability

I can’t believe that it has been over a year since I had the gentamicin injections and after that being on disability. The year since then has been bumpy but I think that I am on the right track.



Just to recap last year I had four gentamicin injections, one every two weeks. Although my doctor told me that they don’t bother most people, the pain was very difficult for me to deal with, but I did. After the last shot things were good for a little while then all hell broke loose. My balance became terrible, and my driving a car was nearly impossible. My attacks were coming daily and I went on disability till the end of 2008.


At that point I thought that getting the gent injections was a mistake. All that pain for nothing. I didn’t realize at the time that what I was going through was common because it takes time for your balance to adjust to what the gent injections due, which is deaden the balance in one ear.


At the beginning of the year I went for VRT which helped me quite a bit. I realized that balance was more than just what signals my ear sent to my brain.


I still had attacks during the past years, especially during the summer after a plane flight. I can’t say for sure that it was the plane flight but it seems more than a coincidence that I had so many attacks right after the flight.


The strength and duration of the attacks this year have been drastically reduced. My attacks are a lot shorter and the recovery time is also shorter. And those are things that are definitely worth being thankful for!


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