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Pesky
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dumb question: choosing a dr
Pesky
member
I need to go see an ENT for my dizziness that I suspect was brought on by a boat trip during my vacation -- it started right after and hasn't stopped. I have 3 choices so far:
1. Recommendation from a CW for an ENT who she credits with saving her daughter's life with a difficult tonsillectomy and that also tends to the local pro hockey team; webiste is a bit jumbled and nothing on there indicates any expertise in balance/vertigo issues. Is near to where I live.
2. Recommendation from local nestie who had sinus surgery with this particular ENT and who also is open to homopatheic remedies. Their website, fancier than the other, does list balance disorders but doesn't list mal de debarquement syndrome (MdDS), which I suspect thanks to google as a potential culprit. Is near where I live.
3. List of drs from a MdDS website, which is the otolarynology group from local med school. Balance disorders do appear on the websites. Is about 30-45 minutes from where I live. I know these guys could easily diagnose me whatever it is. They have all the stuff onsite to do so. But they are far, they are faculty so not sure when I could get in anyway and it's hard for me to find the time in my schedule nowadays.
Do I just bite the bullet and go with the big guns (#3)? Or try one of the others first? WWYD?
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
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Re: dumb question: choosing a dr
I would call 1& 2 and ask if they handle balance disorders. Try it and if they don't work out then move onto the big guns.
How scary is the dizziness?
Not bad. More annoying than anything and very distracting. Like being mildly drunk at times. You'd never know unless I told you about it.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
Have you seen a regular GP yet? (Or don't you have one and that would be the point of the question and I'm just being dense?)
It could be something as simple as a weird ear infection that's putting fluid in there and throwing off your balance.
Otherwise, I second what Amy said.
yep, saw the GP who diagnosed it as some form of vertigo which was as specific as she could get. Next step now is to see an ENT.
DD -- 5YO
DS -- 3YO
I'm a go with the "big guns" kind of person. Why try the others if you think you'll end up at #3 anyway? I'd rather drive 30-40 minutes once for an issue than have something linger and have to continue to take more time off, which would probably add up to the same amount of time if not more anyway.
I hope that makes sense, I'm sleep deprived today.
I would go with the big guns that deal with balance disorders and have the facilities to diagnose the problem.
I have been battling vertigo for about 6 weeks now and it sucks. I was diagnosed initially in 2007 with Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo and hadn't had a flair up until recently.
GL!