Wednesday, May 26, 2010

Meniere’s disease and disability

If you have read the past few weeks’ posts then you know that I have been having a relapse regarding my meniere’s disease. It all started about a month ago when I thought that the culprit was pollen and when the pollen went away so would the attacks. Of course it didn’t happen that way the attacks got worse and then 2 weeks ago I had my worse attack in 2 years. I have been missing a lot of work so I decided to once again go on disability.

While I am on disability I am going to have the gent injections again. Hopefully I wouldn’t have to 4 shots like I did before. The first one is on June 9 and I am already dreading it! I know that not all people who receive the injections have such a bad experience with them. Unfortunately I did.


How long will I be on disability? I really don’t know it took a couple of months to get over the injections the last time so it may be a while. The one thing that I will definitely cut back on will be my driving. I had one bad experience with driving after an injection and I don’t want to have another one. I might try to do some of the VNS exercises to strengthen my balance; I don’t think that it would hurt.
I’ll keep you posted.

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6 comments:

sherry said...

I wish you well, and hope you get your life back on track soon.

Nicki said...

good luck to you. my injection went well. i'm still waiting for the rough part of it to hit. hoping the anticipation will be worse than the attack.

sending lots of well wishes your way!

Daniel Pancy said...

Hang in there, don't overdo with the long weekend.

David Stillwagon said...

Thanks everybody for the words of encouragement I need them :)
David

bigdaddythinks said...

Best wishes, David. I was sorry to learn about the relapse.

David Stillwagon said...

thanks I appreciate it!