Hello! I’m Mollie - I’ve been unwell for 6 or 7 weeks now and haven’t been able to get any indication of what’s wrong until now. It started with nausea, anxiety and a viral rash which was diagnosed as Pityriasis Rosea.
I’ve had a load of tests done and all came back clear on everything, but my symptoms had moulded into dizziness, back pain, neck pain and the continuing nausea. The doctor suggested the viral infection I had has caused Labyrinthitus. I’m scared this will never go away, has anyone else experienced this?
Any advice would be great! Got chiropractor tomorrow as I know that can help speed up recovery and of course help with my back and neck pain.
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Labyrinthitus - if that's what you've got will go away - sometimes it takes its time to do so but it will. People usually get better after three or four weeks with complete recovery sometimes taking a month or two.
You should ask/ demand/ get an urgent referral to ENT who can either confirm your GP's diagnosis or search for what else it could be.
Good luck and try not to worry. It's a horrible little infection but it does go.
Hey, thank you for your response, the doctor wants to check my heart first as that can also contribute towards dizziness, think she’s just being extra cautious. I defo feel a ‘fullness’ in my ears, so I don’t think it’s my heart but hey ho. Your message is extremely reassuring, II really hope this clears up my Christmas - you’re right though, it is super nasty!
as far as I can tell labyrinthites is a bit difficult to diagnose as against, for instance, Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPVj, Both of which I’ve had. Allegedly. They both feel the same, and the “cure” is just time. You might be prescribed anti-sickness pills, and also exercises to do.
The brain is being told one thing by the ears and another by the eyes, and gets confused, so these exercises help to train the brain to believe the eyes and not the ears.
Thanks for your reply! Thats really reassuring, I hope you haven’t suffered too much or too long when you had it. They think its that as my symptoms are so much worse after any form of exercise where im moving quite a bit. It’s been about 6 weeks now so hopefully I’m nearing the end!
Labyrinthitus is a fairly easy diagnosis Rosie. You don a VR-looking headset - you can't see anything but I think it's Infrared and that shoots beams of light in to your eyes, and does some odd things for a minute or two and from your reactions and the reflections back to a camera inside it can diagnose both Labyrinthitus and, in fact Meniere's.
But that's not a GP thing - it's well in to the realms of ENT Consultants.
So, again Mollie - you must push for that ENT referral. That will, I'm sure, set your mind at rest.
My lab started about sixteen years ago and was diagnosed just by to my symptoms being given to GP.
The BPPV again was diagnosed in exactly the same way. It felt the same to me. The last time I looked these up (must be a couple of years ago now) the description of the symptoms seemed very similar.
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