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Old 05-16-2019, 02:08 PM
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Hi Susie, I expect it is a combo problem as you mentioned. I've been going to PT for the neck and the dizziness is 50+% better than it was. I wasn't a believer that the neck could play apart of it but after 6 weeks of PT with a lot of home exercises things are better and I can walk straighter as I was drifting to the left bad. About to get some prescription glasses and my eye doc uses the same taping/dot technique you mentioned so hoping that deals with the dizziness some.

I went to a good ear specialist who ruled out that it was an inner ear problem by a lot of testing. He deals with a lot of TBI patients and said if vision therapy and PT doesn't rid the dizziness, suspect it is a central nervous issue and I may have to look at meds like Topamax or similar again that slows the excited brain down which could also improve the strange visual static I'm seeing. Not sure about the blurry vision.. I had went to a neuro optho and tried one medication but the side effects caused me to stop. May have to revisit this.

I'm sorry to hear you are having dizziness flare up. That is very frustrating as mine surfaced one year after the injury. Keep trying to modulate it with turning different knobs and there is a good chance that it will pass. All of the specialist I've been to have been confident dizziness can be resolved. Not so much confidence in the static/snow but I can deal with the strange vision..the dizziness needs to go!!

My best wishes to you as you recover.
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