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shoe – I have meniere’s – it’s a problem of the middle ear impacting balance among other things, and I get dizzy easily.
Things that “trigger” it include shopping – going into a LARGE store, and walking down the end aisle and scanning down the aisles looking into them when looking for something. Say I want the bread aisle – I walk along the end looking into each as I walk quickly through the store. BAD idea.
Moving eyes left to right quickly. Had this last week when in the sleep study they did a “wire check” they had me do eye movements. I was laying down and dizzy as hell after 5 left to right quick eye movements.
Nodding, turning quickly, STRESS, all can trigger it.
So I went to an ENT type doctor. He sent me to a therapist who helped me with exercises designed to take me to the brink and back.
The exercises included balancing and other movements. One was standing on a platform that was pivoted in the middle. It would rock in any direction. I had to balance it – and the computer scored me and helped by showing a box on the screen that moved as the platform did. I was to keep that box in the middle of the screen, then practice moving it to other targets on the screen while on this platform.
To shorten this already long ADHD ramble – practice and taking me to the brink of total collapse of dizziness for 2 sessions a week for a couple of months helped to “control” the symptoms. It retrained my brain to realize that some sensations should not trigger “I’m getting dizzy and sick” alert circuits.
I can now walk through a store and not get dizzy or sick – at least on most days. Too quickly, or under the right conditions it still happens – but I’m more in control of it now.
So I guess I’m stating that I believe there are TIMES when the brain can re-learn, or compensate. Can it for ADHD? Maybe, maybe not. If there’s damage, I think so, but if the parts are just failing, I have my doubts…………… but i’m no doctor.
Do you have anything to lose by trying other than time?
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