Chrissy Cruiser wrote:
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>>>Sorry to hear about your illness. Let's not forget to advise that anyone
>>>who has these symptoms had best check with their ddoctor and not
>>>self-diagnose. Meniere's Disease, BPPV and several others mimic as does
>>>Simple Vertigo which I had from my last cruise.
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>On Sat, 04 Dec 2004 01:52:21 GMT, Rosalie B. wrote:
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>> Vertigo isn't particularly simple - I've had that. I was lying in bed
>> and all of a sudden the room started to go around. Had I not known
>> better I would have thought I was on a boat which was doing some
>> violent rocking and rolling.
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>Simple Vertigo is a designation as opposed to several other variations. It
>usually means that a) it will clear soon, b) it will clear faster as you
>repeat the event that creates the unbalanced feeling. In my case, it was
>moving my head "off plane".
Yes - although I hadn't done anything at all when it started. I was
lying flat on my back in bed. I opened my eyes and the ceiling was
heaving and circling. The ER doc asked me if I had double vision, and
I said that I wasn't wearing my glasses so I didn't know - I can't
focus clearly on the ceiling without them.
It did clear up eventually, but it has left me with an uncertain
feeling and I feel that it has made me unsteady on my feet because I'm
not sure whether I'm feeling motion or it's all in my ear.
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>SV is an inner ear, fluid crystallization problem (roughly). It took about
>a month for all the symptoms to go away and I had to constantly move my
>head to look up or get in and out of bed dozens of times every day. Virus
>is suspected and is one of the reasons I am so adamant about taking BABY on
>a cruise. BABY with vertigo is nearly impossible to diagnose, nausea is not
>uncommon, followed by dehydration, hospitalization and, potentially, DEATH.
Vertigo isn't the same as motion sickness is it?
Anyway, I had a good time on the cruise to Bermuda (no rocking
afterwards), but I doubt if we will go on another one anytime in the
near future. What I liked best was the food - the choices and not
having to worry about the price and not having to figure out what
restaurant to stop at. I also liked being on a ship.
What I liked least was having so many people going the same place I
was at the same time I was - both in port and at meals and the pool
etc. I retired to get out of the rush hour, not to recreate it all
the time. On any other cruise, I would also dislike having
restricted times in port. That's not the way I like to travel -
either having to rush around to see stuff or pay a bunch to the ship
people to get me to things I'd like to see.
I'm indifferent to dressing up for meals, gambling, and art auctions.
A few shows might be nice once in a blue moon, but not something I'd
pay a lot to do.
Because of that, I've cut rec.travel.cruises off my list so if you
want to respond to me, do it through rec.travel.Caribbean.
grandma Rosalie |