Vretigo hit hard last night. Daily Health Check-In — May 20, 2025
Today was a rest-and-recovery kind of day, prompted by a rough episode of vertigo that hit hard last night. I took all my regular medications, plus diazepam, which I reserve for days when vertigo makes normal functioning impossible. On these days, I can't work—not because I don't want to, but because I physically can’t. I lose pay, time, and momentum. And what’s worse: there’s no predictable pattern to it. Living with Neurological Vertigo My vertigo isn’t caused by otoliths or displaced ear crystals. This isn’t a textbook case of BPPV. Mine is neurological , and after decades of testing and tracking—with my doctors digging into everything from blood sugar to weather shifts to hormone swings—we’ve never found a trigger. It comes and goes like a thief in the night, uninvited and unexplained. And it's exhausting . The spinning, the nausea, the instability—it doesn’t just rob me of physical balance, it steals time , productivity, and emotional bandwidth. Living with ...