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My unsteady self

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Ever since contracting Meningitis at age just two, https://mynonvisualstruggles.blogspot.com/2018/10/my-meningitis-story.html. I've lived with balance issues. Growing up I experienced short bouts of vertigo once in a while, but nothing prepared me for the uphill battle I was about to face.  Off to the hospital, I go. And within a short period of time after arriving at the hospital, I was being prepped for my appointment, little I knew I'd be spending a whole afternoon being assessed by three different balance specialists. Probably one of the worst afternoons of my life! The abbreviation version of the horrendous tests I was made to endure was like being inside a tumble dryer/washing machine.                                                                                                      Moi during testing 😒 A few weeks later I received the specialist's report which was three pages long!😲😲😲 Severe positional dizziness (5/5 severe dizziness related disa

Tinnitus the involuntary perception of sound

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Hi readers, sorry I haven't been able to write in a while. Having multiple medical conditions can have many limitations. Being a tinnitus sufferer is one of them. More than one in five people suffer and struggle with the burdensome chronic tinnitus, while many have extreme and debilitating cases. Tinnitus affects both deaf /hard of hearing and hearing people (because the sound is internal). Its a very difficult condition to live with and it causes people to suffer greatly. I haven't always had tinnitus, I developed a buzzing sound after the removal of my Bone Bridge implant in 2015. Click here to view how it all began mynonvisualstruggles.blogspot.com/2018/08/having-multiple-medical-conditions-has.html My tinnitus is in my right ear where I have reduced hearing, which makes it impossible for me to try to hear, concentrate or focus while being distracted by the constant buzzing. As someone with relatively severe tinnitus, I feel absolutely awful for my fellow su