Vestibular Migraines

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January 26, 2021

VESTIBULAR MIGRAINE AND LIGHT SENSITIVITY: HOW LIGHTS CAUSE MY SCARIEST SYMPTOMS

When you think of vestibular migraine, the first symptom that comes to mind is dizziness. And why wouldn’t it? Dizziness is typically the first symptom that creates panic. When your whole world is suddenly spinning, it’s all you can focus on. While dizziness was definitely the symptom that changed my life as I knew it, light sensitivity and migraine aura wasn’t far behind it. For me, light sensitivity is often the first symptom to be aggravated, and it typically causes...

January 3, 2021

A COVID CHRISTMAS: MY EXPERIENCE WITH THE CORONAVIRUS

When the Coronavirus began to spread worldwide, I think it’s reasonable to suggest that all of us experienced (and are still experiencing) some level of fear. The fear of it spreading to you or your friends and family and if you did get it, would you survive? Part of me was also in deep denial that it could happen to me. I’m not sure why when I had the last virus that swept the U.S. in 2009, aka Swine Flu....

May 18, 2020

5 Tips On How I’m Managing My Vestibular Migraine Postpartum

Will my vestibular symptoms flare up if I have a baby? That question was something that weighed on my mind prior to getting pregnant and during my pregnancy journey. I had heard so many horror stories of women who were either diagnosed with VM after having a baby or experienced an increase in dizziness after having their VM managed for several years. Well, here I am 7 weeks postpartum, and I’m dealing with dizziness like I did when I first...

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...

June 17, 2019

Fitness and Vestibular Migraine: 3 Exercises That Helped Me Find My Balance

If you’re an active person like me, getting diagnosed with a vestibular disorder can make walking difficult, let alone hitting the gym. For the first 6 months of my newly diagnosed condition, I was unable to do much in terms of working out. Running has always been my therapy, and I could hardly make it .25 miles before wanting to fall over. If I wasn’t running, I was taking boot camp classes at my gym, and all of a sudden,...

May 15, 2019

6 Vestibular Migraine Triggers And How To Manage Them

One question I tend to get a lot on social media is, “what are your vestibular migraine triggers?” “Do you have dizziness daily or just with migraine?” While most of us may have vestibular migraine (or VM,) I would venture to argue that all of our stories on how we first came down with this disease is specifically unique to you. Whether you were on a plane that caused your first inner ear problem or if you came down with...

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...