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October 26, 2020

Pregnancy and Post Baby: My Current Vestibular Migraine Treatment Plan

It’s crazy to think that four years ago, I would first experience the dizzy symptoms of a life-changing disorder. Life how I knew it was about to change forever. I would have to leave my job, reevaluate friendships, see several doctors. All this while trying to tell myself I wasn’t crazy, undergo extensive testing, and be handed a treatment plan to help me feel “normal.” In four years, I’ve been through quite the ringer. I’ve tried various pill cocktails that...

November 20, 2019

How I Am Adjusting To Pregnancy With Vestibular Migraine

At 27-years-old I was diagnosed with a vestibular disorder, and while that was life-changing enough, it put my plans for pregnancy on hold. So many women in my vestibular migraine groups had talked about how they were diagnosed with VM during or after their pregnancy, and if they already had VM it was HORRIBLE during those long 9 months. The last thing I wanted to do was take this brand-new chronic condition I had just been experiencing and mix it...

July 22, 2019

The Scary Symptoms of Vestibular Migraine: Alice In Wonderland Syndrome

One of the scariest things about vestibular migraine is when an attack comes out of nowhere. You could be reading a book, combing your hair or just lying on the couch and a sudden wave of dizziness can abruptly take over your body leaving you in a state of panic. I have dizziness daily, but when I experience bad attacks, it can make me feel as scared as I did on the first day coming down with this illness. Anyone...

January 23, 2019

How To Live A Normal-“ish” Life With Vestibular Migraines

As an ambassador for VEDA, I receive a lot of emails from other vestibular disorder sufferers about my diet, fitness, and how I live a normal life. Unfortunately, experiencing the beginnings of a vestibular diagnosis tends to take most of us down the same dark road. It’s easy to lose hope and hard for a lot of us to imagine our “new normal” aside from being a prisoner of your house. So many people, like me, find themselves in the...

December 17, 2018

Managing Your Vestibular Migraine During The Holidays

The holidays can be a fun, yet stressful time, especially if you’ve been recently diagnosed with vestibular migraines. It can be hard to want to go to a party when you’re fearful the food, lights, noise and overall environment are going to cause you to spin into a dizzy spell. While I wish I could tell you I had all of the perfected tips to make company parties, family/friend’s holiday parties and traveling home a breeze, I can give you...

October 31, 2018

Scared Dizzy: How I’ve Adjusted To A Vestibular Disorder Two Years Later

Since I can remember, Halloween has always been something I look forward to each year. I love dressing up, the decorations, haunted houses, and scary movies.  And while I patiently wait for October 31st each year, it now has a new significance to me. You see, two years ago on Halloween night, an evening at home watching a scary movie with my husband, turned into a horror well beyond the two-hour rental.  What felt like a stroke mixed with a...

September 16, 2018

Balance Awareness Week 2018: Help Vestibular Patients Find Balance

October will be the two-year anniversary of my life-changing dizzy symptoms that would later reveal itself as a diagnosis of vestibular migraines and vestibular neuritis – permanently damaging my vestibular nerve. I will never be able to forget how a night home watching a scary movie with my husband turned into a horror well beyond the two-hour rental. Sensations of falling, spinning and melting into my couch convinced me I was having a stroke, but really, I would learn that...

March 26, 2018

8 Ways I Manage My Vestibular Migraines

It’s been 17 months since I first experienced symptoms of Vestibular Migraine, and while it’s been a crazy journey up to this point, I’ve come a long way since I first shared my story. This month I joined The Vestibular Disorder Association (VeDA) as an Ambassador and I’ve had an extraordinary response from other sufferers asking how I manage my migraines to live a normal life. That said, I want to share with you the 8 Way I Manage My...