The past several days I have been having some trouble with vertigo. I was having some pain in my jaw, had a sinus headache and when I was reaching up when putting some dishes up all the sudden got really dizzy. It has happened several times, most of the time it goes away fairly quickly but is usually triggered when I look up and I lift my arms over my head for very long or turn my head quickly when laying down. It is making my ear hurt and I have had a mild headache that doesn't want to go away and my stomach is feeling a bit queasy.
When this happens I fall behind on my chores, I can't bend over without dizziness or reach up either. I have a lot of animals to take care of, coops, brooders and cages to clean. I have to modify my routine a lot or just leave things until I feel better. If I move slowly and am careful, I can do some things but tend to hold on to steady myself. Crew worries that I will fall, and when he gets home from work and finds me the chickens will have pecked my bones clean or something. I must admit that it is a bit scary, I am not sure what they would do. I saw an article a few weeks ago and started searching the Internet for the way to fix it on your own...it is a positional thing, I am going to try it out and hope it works. My stomach is a bit queasy at the moment, so I am going to wait until my breakfast settles before I try it...I don't normally puke, just feel queasy but I ate this morning in anticipation for getting outside and working on gates and setting up my breeding pens set up so that I can separate roosters out. But, I bent over and I guess my sinuses are at it again...I can breath but just under my left eye and my forehead feels full of fluid or something, I have a dull ache, some pressure and my ear and left side of my face I am having intermittent pain that becomes sharper here and there when I move around much.
I guess I will take some sinus medication and something for the headache and wait awhile for it to kick in. I have a lot I need to get done, I don't have time for this! It pisses me off when my body acts like this, most of the time I just work through things...just figure out the least painful or dangerous way to do it. I need to use power tools today though, and I rather be safe than sorry...I am sure my husband would agree, he doesn't like calls from me in the middle of the afternoon. Why you ask? Because I try not to bother him at work and when I call him in the afternoon, it is usually because I did something that may require stitches...or I locked myself in the chicken coop. He calls and checks on me, he can tell when I am having dizzy spells, but there was a time I got up to fast in the middle of the night, I had an extreme dizzy spell while I was walking across the room and fell against the dresser and slid to the floor...I bruised my ribs pretty badly and scrapped my arm up pretty good that time. I am more careful when I get up these days, I sit on the edge of the bed upright for a minute before I stand up, it doesn't matter if I have been feeling dizzy or not, I still do it. Getting so dizzy you black out basically and all you see is nothingness with your eyes wide open and your legs give out...they turn to jelly and won't hold you up anymore and all you can do is try and grab something to break your fall...well, it is scary...very scary. I just want it to go away.
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