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Old 01-04-2015, 12:03 AM
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Hello roralea,

Yes, my vertigo is really the only remaining problem I have been left with since a head injury some years ago. It's just never left completely although up until this week (hit my head again and it's bad vertigo time again) it had gradually become much better but it changed my life totally regarding mobility and independence. I took medication for it years ago but I didn't like the side-effects and it didn't really seem to help that much.

I wonder if I may have some type of eye tracking problem as well that affects my balance but didn't ever have any visual or vestibular therapy unfortunately. When all this first happened I was a busy single mum with 2 teens and with one of them needing fulltime care and supervision my priorities were in a different place.

There are lots of older posts in the stickies and on the forums regarding visual therapy and vestibular therapy and most of the members here know more about these things than I do as I've not done the therapies.

Eowyn posted these ones for vision problems a while ago and there is a lot of information on the sites. You could also read some of her posts. They may be helpful.

http://www.braininjuries.org/
About Vision Problems Associated with Brain Injuries

https://nora.cc/
The Neuro-Optometric Rehabilitation Association

someone else posted this one
http://vestibular.org/node/2
Causes of Dizziness, Vertigo, Disequilibrium

I also have migraines which tends to complicate the balance issue and that's why i asked whether you had migraine or not.

Here is some info regarding Vestibular Migraine from that last site above.
http://vestibular.org/migraine-associated-vertigo-mav

You may have done this already but if you're looking for particular information you could use the Forum Search Feature and just type in keywords e.g. vestibular or vision or vertigo etc.

http://neurotalk.psychcentral.com/search.php

In fact there is so much good and helpful information in past posts on this forum that I think it's quite astounding. The problem sometimes is sorting through it all, especially if you're having problems with screen time. I know!
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