rewind a second...

So, I started this talking about my search for an answer for this ongoing Vertigo problem...

Like I said, it was an everyday PROBLEM. I couldn't enjoy a night out with friends, walking through a mall or grocery store, going on a nice evening dinner with my boyfriend....in fear that I would become extremely dizzy and need to leave IMMEDIATELY!

it was horrible...and I needed an answer.

My primary physician became concerned with me being on such heavy meds for the Vertigo that he wanted me off completely! (I agreed in my heart...but...) I needed them in a different way that someone who abuses drugs. I needed them to make it through each and every work day. I was thinking, if you're taking me off, you have to do something else.

This was all pre-thyroid surgeries...

I was sent to a psychiatrist to see if it all linked to anxiety...the dizziness, that is. My psychiatrist tells me that many people with extreme dizziness may have problems with the thyroid and it NOT show up in blood work.

Ok, go on....

I tell him about the "finding" on my thyroid during my initial ultrasound of the parotid gland mass behind my ear....He is interested.

Still no permanent answers...or relief.

He gives me anxiety meds to help with the anxiety of all of the medical issues. He says it is very common for those with on-going medical issues to develop a different kind of anxiety than those battling it for years.

More medicine? ahhhhhhh! Ok...I will try anything at this point.

The meds did not work...I still had to take the "anxiety"meds with Xanex (not 3 times a day, but maybe once).

This all led up to the May 2011 ultrasound and biopsy of my thyroid and the suspicion of thyroid cancer....which is discussed in yesterday's blog.

I stayed on the anxiety meds hoping for a change...it takes a while for it to get in your system and try to work it's magic....Didn't really feel any difference, though...even after a month or two.

The relief came with the 1st thyroid surgery...and then final relief came with the total thyroid lobectomy.

The Vertigo was gone....GONE!...along with my thyroid!

I felt like I lost a hated enemy that I couldn't shake for over a year...

It was never stated by any doctors (other than the psychiatrist) that my thyroid cancer had anything to do with the Vertigo battle...but I look at it all as a sign from God.
First...Vertigo
Second...this mass thing behind my ear...
Third..Finding an atypical nodule on my thyroid...
Fourth...suspicion for papillary carcinoma..
Fifth and Sixth...losing my thyroid completely...

SEVENTH....no Vertigo...

7 was the lucky number, I guess...