Well, Tuesday night I had an interesting attack.  This one was totally
different from any others I've had before.  I was moving the laundry from 
the washer into the dryer and suddenly had horrible vertigo.  No nausea, 
just the room spinning.  No hearing problems right away, either.  So I 
finished the laundry and went to lay down on the couch.  Then the hearing
became very, very strange.  I don't think I lost any volume, but everything
started sounding very mechanical, like it was being processed through a 
tape recorder.  There was the buzzing/ringing and pressure in the left ear
and I could tell the vertigo was coming from the left side.  Since I was
alone, I had to test my hearing using my own voice and found very 
interesting results.  I sang several scales and noted that in the mid-range
(probably about a B on the treble clef to a high F) that notes were very 
distorted and almost split to sound like 2 different notes.  Now, I'm a
trained singer, so I'm pretty darn sure that I was singing the scale 
correctly.  It felt right and I did everything that I've been taught to 
do.  I think the distortion was definitely from hearing and not from 
singing, although it really is difficult to sing when what you're hearing
back to yourself isn't coming through correctly.  Anyway, the attack 
only lasted about 10-15 minutes, and I didn't panic or take any drugs
for it.  It went away just as easily as it happened.

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