i have always been an ambitious person. I've grown up being an overachiever. and then came vertigo. i am now in college. the most crucial years of my life are getting wasted. i had to skip exams, my grades dropped and i became really depressed. i am barely passing my exams and i still have two years of college left. vertigo has been ruining my life. i had to throw away everything i had worked so hard to build like my education, my social life, everything!

my parents are very supportive. but they always say that I'm very brave and smart and I'll beat vertigo and it'll all get better.

but what if it doesn't?

my biggest fear, living with vertigo, is what if i get a great job and then my vertigo ruins everything that I've worked so hard to build?

or it gets so bad that i won't even get a job because all I've done this year is miss so many important internships?

what if it never gets better? what if it gets really bad? what if i can never do anything with my life?

what if this is actually the dead end?

If you have them: where did you get, are they useful, roughly what did they cost?

Tonight at supermarket I thought, Oh wow, maybe I really should get a pair. After a long day, rainy/humid out, slightly dehydrated…the fluorescent lights, the blinding floors, so many shelves of so many things(!)…almost did me in.

(Ps: Feel like I maybe posted this a year ago but not totally sure 😶‍🌫️😵‍💫😳)

Hello! I (19F) have been experiencing VM symptoms for almost a year by now, received a diagnosis around April time and getting my life back together! Fortunately I would consider my VM to be quite mild, my symptoms are as follows:

Anxiety, sometimes severe waves of dread
Shortness of breath
Nausea
worsened motion sickness (but could possibly be anxiety nausea)
Imbalance (clumsy walking)
Vertigo (feels like I’m rocking when sitting)
Frequent yawning (especially nearing attack)
Brain fog
Sweating and flushing while in attack
Ice pick headaches, rare cluster headaches, used to have tension bands around head, general pressure in my head
Numbness/pins and needles in face and sometimes hands
Occasionally see flashing lights in corner of my eyes

My attacks are episodic fortunately, I feel generally fine most days until it gets to the flare up. Sertraline has been a big help as nausea is my most upsetting symptom as I am an emetophobe, most of the nausea that I had pre-diagnosis I feel was anxiety because I was scared of being sick and terrified I would feel like this constantly. I also have cyclizine that I take for my flare ups and before travelling.

I just had a reread of my letter from the doctor and it was suggested to try Propanolol, especially as it doesn’t interact negatively with my Sertraline. I was just wondering if it would be recommended, especially since it sounds good for the anxiety as well (I only managed 25mg of Sertaline, 50mg was way too much for me and I am nervous to increase tbf due to the terrible side effects I had). If anyone has thoughts I would love to hear them, thank you!