Dear Jeremy,
I have been wanting to thank you for all the help with the dizziness and off balance issues I have been dealing with since 2000…but have been holding off because I didn’t want to jinx it. I have been, on a scale of 1 to 10, 1 being terrible and 10 obviously being wonderful…feeling in the range of 7 to 9, most of the time. I still do have some days that are not as good, but not as bad as they had been. I can usually work through it with exercises you’ve given me, and the realization that anxiety and stress is a factor in making it worse, helps me to try calming myself a bit. I have many days that I feel much more normal than I have in years. This is quite a feat considering the fact that I have seen every neurologist, otolaryngologist, ENT, and many other doctors in the Rhode Island area, Boston area, including Mass Eye & Ear, Lahey Clinic, Mass. General, and another in Florida, all of whom just fluffed my problem off as a female with anxiety issues. I have been to the ER at Charlton so many times that the doctors know me when I walk in and are not too appreciative of my visits. The last visit to Charlton was a nightmare. I was so sick and dizzy and we were made to wait 5 hours, and when a doctor finally came in to see me, he said I was not an emergency and should be seeing my primary care for anxiety medication. It was a Saturday night and I could not focus, or walk very well, was nauseous, and did not know what to do with myself. We left there with me feeling as horrible as when Arthur brought me in.
No one felt the car accident I had in 1999 had anything to do with the problems; they felt it was all due to anxiety. But when I read your article about cervicogenic dizziness and decided to get your opinion, which was in November of 2014, you felt I probably did have that, and started treatment. I am so happy I saw that article because at that point I was dizzy and off balance, along with being nauseous, constantly! I did not know what to do; I had no one to talk to about it because everyone wanted to put me on anxiety meds. Every day was a nightmare. The anxiety does play a part in all this but the tightening up that the anxiety causes makes all the symptoms much worse. So now I can help myself to a large degree and am able to get through those really bad times.
So now I’m hoping we can work on the pain in my leg and back that I have been experiencing for a long time as well. The 2nd treatment today, for the leg and back, actually helped a bit. When I left the office I didn’t think there was any improvement but after we arrived back home I realized the pain in my buttock was gone, for a few hours only, but still…it was nice to have it gone for a while.
Thank you so much for all your help and care, you’ve helped enormously with this debilitating problem and I can’t tell you how much I, (and Arthur), appreciate my not feeling the way I had been feeling for so long. I can only hope we can now help the leg and back pain as well.
My appreciation goes beyond what words can convey.
Thank you so much…
Shirley Torres
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