Date: Thu, 16 Aug 2001 07:35:10 -0600 (MDT)
From: Ali Zimmerman 
To: Karen Zimmerman 
Subject: stuff doc should know.

As for symptoms, very little vertigo or nausea this time around.  Just
pressure buildup (but not like I can pop my ears and it'll go away) and
intense ringing and strange soundsgoing back and forth between my ears.
These are in both ears, not just the one.  And then the hearing loss.
It's not completely gone, because there is a difference between the
previously deaf ear, which is completely gone, and the "good" ear.  I can
still hear somethings, but barely and they are quite distorted when I do.  

This started last Wednesday morning, with the same symptoms, but the
hearing was much, much better.  That lasted about 8 hours. I took 30mg of
prednisone and tapered down from there over the next few days.  Thursday
at about 2am, I had the same thing, but it was gone by the time I woke up
to go to work.  

Then we went to the mountains on Saturday at 11k feet, and I had a panic
attack that night from being really cold and clausterphobic, so I didn't
really sleep.  Took some valium.  Sunday the problems started very
gradually and didn't hit until about 5:00, but again went away by the time
I woke up on Monday.  

In the middle of the night on Monday/Tuesday, I'm not sure what time, the
same thing started again.  Only it didn't go away by the time I woke up.
By 10:00am, my hearing was like it is now and I have had those symptoms I
described above since.  Started taking 60mg of Prednisone, spread out at 3
doses of 20mg/day.  Taking at least one valium a day (5mg) to not totally
freak out.  Only one day (Tuesday) did I have to take Meclizine (the
anti-vertigo).  

So that's about it.  Still deaf this morning.  I was hoping to wake up
fine, as the pattern has been in the past.  

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"Living is a form of not being sure, not knowing what next or how. The 
moment you know how, you begin to die a little. The artist never entirely 
knows. We guess. We may be wrong, but we take leap after leap in the dark."
                                      -Agnes de Mille
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