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Here's what I've tried so far which has been helpful. I remind myself "you are just dizzy from the peripheral neuropathy, you are not having a stroke or heart attack, you are not going to pass out in your chair in this restaurant!" That helps my anxiety - no, I am not going to end up in an emergency room. Then I focus on "grounding." I push my feet into the floor, breathe, drink some water and focus my eyes on something or someone near to me and don't look around a lot until it generally passes. I am a dancer, and I use those strategies - get grounded into the floor, engage my core, find a "spot" to focus on (we do this when we are spinning or turning). It's also kind of like when we were younger and came home after drinking too much and lay in bed with one foot on the floor to ground us and stop the spinning 🙂 Anyone else have some strategies?
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Good morning, @robindance5678
" … and I use those strategies – get grounded into the floor, engage my core, find a "spot" to focus on … "
Yesterday I was having an unusually difficult day with my unsteadiness. I deliberately applied your "get grounded" suggestion and it worked! Mind over unsteadiness, eh? 🙂 Thank you!
Cheers!
Ray (@ray666)
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Hi, @robindancer5678
Your advice on grounding reminded me of something I read in Michael J. Fox's memoir, No Time Like the Future: how his Parkinson's coach would tell Fox (and here I'm paraphrasing) when he was about to cross an open space not to focus on the destination but only on where his next footfall had to be placed, and then the next, and then the next, and then … (i.e., one sure step after another and Fox would arrive at his destination). I think of Fox's coach's words every day as I go down the front walk to get the morning newspaper.
Ray (@ray666)