dizzy free

So I have been dizzy free now for 2 full weeks. And today is day 1 of a new cycle and I feel fine. I should qualify a little, "fine" to me is not being overpowered by the dizziness. In this state, I have no desire to take any meds to change how I feel.

So will this be it? Did my body just figure things out on its own? Are the supplements I'm taking have any effect? Hopefully I can answer these questions over the next few weeks. I'm thinking that I will wait for 2 weeks, to see if any dizziness reappears in the first 2 weeks of this cycle. If it does not, then I think I might try stopping some of the supplements. I think I would drop CoQ10, then Vit B, and then magnesium, leaving a month or so in between removing each one. The doctor said it would take 10-12 weeks for these to start working, so I don't they're doing anything yet.

This could be a sign of normal life to come. Oh, and for anyone that's reading and wondering, I'm definitely not pregnant.

Migraine

So I had a follow up today. I waited 40 minutes without them saying anything. I went to ask how much longer and they told me I didn't have an appointment. I have an appt card with today and 1PM written on it, someone never put it in. I made the appt while there last time, quite frustrating. They did get me in pretty much right away at that point.
Dr Hain said that while they are finding some small abnormalities on the testing, it is puzzling because I am not responding to any of the treatments. So at this point, he's decided it must be migraine related. He gave me scripts for two migraine meds and I am to call the lactation consultant to find out if either are safe. I plan to call tomorrow, since we didn't get home until 4:30. I am not very optimistic about either being acceptable. So then I have 2 choices.
I can choose to stop breastfeeding, which is likely to take some time to wean. When I'm completely done I could then try the meds, which take about a month to see if they work.
Or I can choose to not take the meds and basically do nothing but continuing taking these supplements.
I'm really torn as to what I will decide to do. Neither me or Carolyn is really ready to end breastfeeding. But I hate living with this dizziness. I have to go back and see my OBGYN for my yearly appt at the end of May. I'm considering going back a little sooner and maybe asking him if it's possible that this is hormone/cycle related. My really bad days started on the first day of my period and lasted 2 weeks, quite possibly until ovulation. So if that pattern repeats itself and I have okay days from now until my next period, I'll be even more convinced that it is hormone/cycle related.
This is all quite frustrating. It's been about 5 months now that I've been living with this, and no one has any real answers. I'm still hoping that this will all just go away eventually.

Bad weeks

These weeks since I was at the doctor have been bad. The dizziness almost seems neverending. It's starting to happen now when I'm standing, so that's very annoying. Not quite bad enough that I truly feel unsteady, but still quite nervewrecking. It's almost time to start a new week and I'm exhausted. Carolyn is sleeping at night, so I can't blame that. I woke up at 4:30 this morning and had trouble getting back to sleep.

The dizziness is causing problems with my concentration. I need almost complete silence in order to focus on something. I used to always have background noise, now it causes problems. That makes everything difficult since it's hard to find quiet places here when Carolyn is awake. Not much I can do about it though.

Hopefully I'll get some answers Thursday, because this is getting ridiculous. It's all so frustrating.

Bad week

So I decided to start keeping track of my dizziness in terms of good days/bad days. I just started marking in a excel file whether it was good/bad. In the past 8 days, I've had one good day. My definition of a good day is that I don't really notice the dizziness, so maybe a spell every 3-4 hours. I was hoping that I could discover that it's hormone related. Well, if it is, I think I remember reading that the 2 weeks after the first day of your period are the best. That would mean that this past week should have been a good week.

This is all starting to depress me, because it is effecting my daily life so much. I can't seem to go more than 2 hours without a dizzy spell, and they're lasting 2 minutes or so again. It's been nearly 5 months since this first started happening. I thought it was getting better, now it seems to be getting worse again. I just don't know what to do anymore. There has to be something wrong with something in my body. Yet nobody seems to be able to figure out what that is and make this all stop. I haven't heard any results from the last test, which means they likely didn't find anything. I can't handle this anymore, I just want it to go away. I need a vacation from this dizziness! I can handle taking care of Carolyn, working my 3 jobs, but I can't handle this dizziness so frequently. I was going to lift this afternoon, but I'm too tired and run down. Maybe next week. I can't wait until next Thursday, when we get to again discuss that we don't know what's wrong. Why is this so hard?

VNG

So I had the VNG today. I had to wait 30 minutes after my scheduled appt, which drove me a little nuts because I was nervous about the test. It wasn't as bad as I had anticipated, but made me extremely dizzy. I actually got dizzy in the parking garage and it didn't go away until after we started the test. I had to follow moving dots in various patterns. And then he put cold, then hot water in my ear. That felt quite strange, but wasn't horrible. The hardest part was that they were tracking my eye movements, so I had to keep my eyes open as much as possible. And since I naturally blink a lot, that was difficult.

I was a little disappointed that the guy who did the test said everything looked normal on my way out. Is it bad that I was hoping this would should something is definitely wrong? But he said he would do the full analysis and let the doctor know. If it shows anything, he should be calling me. At the latest, I have a follow up 4/16. Maybe I'll get lucky and the supplements will start working. Although it's somewhat of an expensive solution.

And now, we wait again...