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Neuropathy | Last Active: May 3, 2021 | Replies (27)
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Hi @jenniferhunter, thank you for the information. Sounds like you went through a lot before finding the right care. Glad you did research to help yourself. It has paid off. Keep trying to regain your muscle loss. I also try to keep active although it is difficult to do with balance issues. It feels like motion sickness with which I get the nausea and sometimes vomiting. I do things often with breaks in between. Good luck!
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@avmcbellar Thank you. I did go through a lot and I was caring for my elderly disabled parents at the time I was looking for medical help for myself. I have a biology background and was able to understand the medical literature I was researching. I also went through some vertigo episodes prior to spine surgery that happened when muscle spasms were moving my vertebrae around in my neck. C1 and C2 would often twist or tilt which was enough to set it off. It happened when I looked up at birds migrating overhead because the back of my skull was jammed into the top of my spine that was out of alignment, and when I leveled my head, the dizziness didn't stop. I was seeing a physical therapist who worked on the muscle spasms and gently realigned the vertebrae and that stopped the vertigo. A cause of that can be a physical problem where the mis- alignment of the vertebrae can alter the arterial blood flow to the brain in certain positions. An example of this is bow hunter's syndrome where the rotation of the upper vertebrae interfere with blood flow to the brain. I don't have a diagnosis of that, but if I sleep wrong or lay on my stomach with my head turned to the side, I can cause muscle spasms that start rotating C1 and C2 which causes muscular head aches. I had spine surgery at Mayo which resolved a lot of that and I don't have dizziness anymore. I mention this in case you might have a physical cervical spine issue contributing to dizziness. When I looked at the birds, it literally looked like the world was spinning and it was easier to close my eyes, and a few times I would hold onto the walls while walking if I felt dizzy. It would be difficult to live with that all the time. Perhaps you have consulted with doctors, but if there is a physical cause for your "motion sickness", maybe physical therapy could help. You may want to have MRI imaging of your cervical spine to check it out. I do know that dizziness and vertigo are symptoms in medical literature of a cervical spine problem. Here is an abstract that describes it. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17128668