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Saturday, October 11, 2008

My Ears

So, anybody following my ear difficulties might be interested in this. I had Vestibular Assessment with VNG (Videonystagmography) done last week. There were a few different parts of the test. Eleven parts to be exact. Nine of them came back within normal limits. Two of them came back abnormal. The "High-Frequency Head Shake Nystagmus Test" came back abnormal. There was a lot of technical terms and stuff I don't understand. But I have a 17 degree abnormality on the right ear there, whatever that means. The other test that came back abnormal is the one that baffled them. It's called the Bithermal Caloric Stimulation. Basically, they put a tube with a warm air flow in my ears and then a cool air flow. My left ear came back OK, but my right ear didn't react at all. Nothing. Zip. Nada. They said they have never seen that before. They put warm air in my right ear four times trying to make sure it wasn't a technical error. Nope. Just my broken ear. They said there was no caloric weakness, but I have a 100% left directional preponderance. The guy explained it to me saying that in balance and motion, everything moves to the left for me and my right ear doesn't contribute to my balance. I can see how that would send me into stints of vertigo, lol. So I have a 100% abnormality in my right ear. What can I say, I'm an abnormal kind of gal. I have to wait for the ENT to review the report before I know what comes next.

The report I was sent from the place of my test said my results *could support my ENT's hypothesis of Meniere's Disease. We shall see.

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