Living with vertigo means never forgetting it can happen even when it's been a while. But that's no reason not to live your life and celebrate when you have a good year.

Living with vertigo, you never know when the anxiety and melancholy will hit. I do my best to gut through it but it isn't always easy. Read about my week.

I got the oil changed in my car yesterday.  That doesn’t sound like a very big deal, I know.  But it took me two weeks to work up the courage. Not only do I have to drive there, but I have to wait for them to finish my car.  Too many opportunities to be alone if a vertigo spell hits.  So, I have to work up the confidence to do it. I was all set two weeks ago.  Had it in my planner as a task.  But when I got up that morning, I just couldn’t do it.  Tim even offered to go with me on his Monday off, but…

I wasn’t going to talk about this, although Tim thinks it’s a perfect subject for my blog.  And then I had a bad episode on Sunday, and decided I needed to get this out.  Whenever I hear the beginning of a commercial for fibromyalgia, which says “to everyone else, I look like everyone else”, I think of myself.  Very few people know what I’m experiencing.  And honestly, I don’t like to dwell on it.  I’m not sure it makes me feel better to talk about it; in fact, sometimes it makes me feel worse. My vertigo experience I’ve been experiencing spontaneous vertigo for two years now.  It started four months…