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Post-Covid dizziness/off-balance, as most troubling symptom
Post-COVID Recovery & COVID-19 | Last Active: May 13 3:45pm | Replies (332)Comment receiving replies
Hi @auntb65, I'm sorry to hear that you, like others, are still dealing with post-COVID issues, most notably dizziness. @kirstenk2003 @welchllb @rinadbq @mkportzen and @teachols can relate. @ginalambiris mentions ear problems after seeing an ENT that help resolve some of her issues.
@pinkcalla127, that must be a very odd sensation to feel like you're walking on ice skates. Is this also accompanied with an off-balance feeling or dizziness?
@coopm0m can you tell us more about the eye exercises that helped you?
I wonder if anyone has discussion proprioception with their PT? Proprioception also called kinesthesia, is the body’s ability to sense its location, movements, and actions. It’s the reason we’re able to move freely without consciously thinking about our environment. Injuries or medical conditions that affect the muscles, nerves, and the brain can cause proprioception impairment. Relatively simple balance and proprioception exercises can help.
Has anyone tried proprioception exercises? Do they help you?
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Hi Colleen, I went to a physical therapist 3 days a week for a month. They had me do different exercises. I also did these exercises at home. I performed the exercises 7 days a week without any relief. Thank you for your reply and info.
I have been doing Pt 3x a week for a year. I had COVID in 8/22 with several weeks in the hospital. My initial symptoms were high fevers, severe balance and proprioception issues along with dizziness, cognitive challenges, and movement sensitivity. There have been a lot of tests run, and most show some helpful explanations but not definitively so. I did have some balance problems pre-COVID but they were acute and severe post COVID. The proprioceptive and vestibular teams have worked hard with me and I do every homework assigned. After a year, I am out of a bed, then moved to a wheelchair, then came the walker and rollator, to two canes. I am thrilled that my progress is still happening and hopeful that my next scans are all good. Some spinal issues that pre-existed COVID may have made me more susceptible but they do not explain the scute nature of the proprioceptive loss that was immediate post-COVID.
This is being written as encouragement for others. It's been a struggle but I see the light at the end of the tunnel!!!!!
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I have a side to side much slower gait when walking (like skating), I was walking 10K steps daily before I got Covid, and now I cant walk for exercise for fear of falling. I run into door jambs when going through my house, I have balance issues, I had really bad vertigo the day after I finished the Paxlovid medication. I had vertigo previously, but Covid really ramped that up to the point of needing nausea medication. I'm on my 3rd bottle of meclizine. Sometimes when I sit, I cant maintain the position without moving a great deal like someone with Parkinson's.