Thank you Dr Yo for your talent and wisdom. A few months ago I could not rely on any full week being symptom free therefore I hesitated in making any plans for living my life with the exception of eating out close to home. I would wear a hat to eat out hoping I could block the light from my eyes and avoid the start of another vestibular migraine. Immediately after the meal I would head home knowing if I went into a grocery store or any well lit store I would get off balance and begin other migraine symptoms. I actually could not believe on our very first session I noticed a change in my tinnitus! I said.. come on that can't be! It really did change so from that moment on I didn't care if you said.. ok turn 3 times and do that only on Monday... I said ok! As we moved forward and I continued to do as you instructed and listened to you very intently in our sessions I got better and better and better !!!! AMAZING! Yes. I do continue to have an occasional episode but they are few and mild! When they do occur I pull out my little tricks you taught me and BAM.... it is mild and short! My only regret is there just needs to be one of you for any and all who are suffering.
I've been bed ridden for weeks at a time as well, I feel her pain :( I can really only go for a 5 min walk each day, I can't do any housework or chores, I even find it hard to cook meals. It's SO amazing to hear that she's only at a 14 now!! Maybe I could take that test in our next session just to see where I'm at now!
Megen, continue and know it will be get better! I'm certain Dr. Yo would say we are all different and therefore our recovery not always the same but I KNOW if you follow her leading you will improve.
Wow. I just found this video and comment and wanted to say how incredible it is to look back after your success story 🥹 There is truly hope for all of us ❤️
Hello, can I ask which techniques you used to help this lady please? Was it just the normal cawthorne type exercises or are you going to be doing another video explaining which techniques she used? Thanks!
Hello Gill, this is an excellent question. I have already published a video on this (look for How to treat your own chronic dizziness), but I am about to launch a course that talks about this more thoroughly. I'm planning to release it later this week. It will be completely free, you can sign up here to get notified when it launches members.thesteadycoach.com/free-chronic-dizziness-course . In short, she did not need many vestibular exercises, we really needed to work more on stress. The course goes over some of those techniques in detail.
Idk why I havent subscribed to you until now! I seen your videos before. I would love to see your student so she can diagnose me 😂 I suffer from vestibular problems myself. Ive been told about vestibular migraines but idk if thats really what I got or not and Im pretty much in the same boat as the person you were talking about. Its been 5 yrs. I live at home, I do leave the house but not very often. Mostly for my appontments. I havsnt been social and I used to be. I want to get out of this stage and situation of my life. Most of the time my head feels lightheaded and swaying. I get muscle weakness mostly during the dizzy attacks. Its a horrible feeling 🙏
Hi Ryan, I am sorry, it sounds like youre really not living the life you want to live right now. I have seen people in your position quite often and they (and you) can get back to living full lives.
I have loved finding your videos Dr.Yo!!! I was diagnosed with the stipular migraine and triple PPPD this last year… I have been on this crazy ride for 19 months!! 🥴 Never in my life did I think this would last as long as it has! I had the dark couch ridden days in the earlier months but I am getting better now!! I have more good days now than bad I can go into grocery stores now without much of a problem! I’m walking for exercise 15 minutes a day now! I can go out to eat And be in crowds without it bugging me much! Hang in there everyone who is just starting this journey and fells despair!!! I’m truly doing great but my biggest concern is leaving my town…😱we have a trip coming up and I have not been on a vacation for almost 2 years because of my vestibular illness…I feel ready to start to go places again but I’m sooo scared!!Any suggestions for someone like me I am so scared that it will put me back to square one which is a very bad place to go again.. 😬
Bethany, hi, welcome to my channel and I'm so happy you're here and especially that you are getting better! Thank you so much for sharing hope with others who find my videos. There is so much doom and gloom on the internet about it. Regarding travel, I have good news for you. In my experience, virtually everyone I've worked with has actually had an easier time traveling than being home. Sometimes getting you away from home can get you unstuck from whatever emotional ruts exist at home. I think you are going to be fine! My best advice is stay off Google, keep doing whatever emotional work you're doing, and prepare some comforts (meditations, snacks, etc.) that you can use to be kind to yourself while you travel.
@@TheSteadyCoach thanks!! I really think the best way to get over the fear of travel is just to do it (Easier said than done sometimes)! I will keep watching your channel and give an update after my trip on things that worked for me! 😊
@@sushmasri6964 hey, I am going so much better!! I wouldn’t say completely healed but I can live a pretty normal life. 😊 I can go to stores and travel some and walk and swim! Movies are still hard for me and I have to really listen to my body and system for any warnings on over doing it…🥴 leaps and bounds better than I was though!! Keep believing, I promise with time, things do get better!
Very sorry to hear what you're going through. Have you been able to watch the video I recently published about first steps after diagnosis? Or parasympathetic breathing?
Do you feel like you're rocking swaying bobbing on a boat 24/7? Did you get it after a panic attack? I'm suffering the same for 3 months and it's hell...
@@k.baller5140 in the beginning I felt like I was on a cruise ship, after a few months it's just a dizzy feeling, no spinning. I just feel off...kinda like I am wearing the wrong glasses. My symptoms started with what felt like regular headaches, eye tiredness, sleepiness, dizzy feeling, and sensitivity to screens. I thought I had computer syndrome or maybe that I needed to update my glasses but nope that wasn't it. I feel that dizzy feeling 24/7.... fullness in the ears and certain head motions make it a little worse. I also have what feels like sinus headaches with pain and pressure in the bridge of my nose and sometimes ear fullness/ pressure. The worst of my symptoms is feeling dizzy. I barely drive anymore because it gives me a headache and makes my dizziness worse. Really sucks.
I just got a 70 on that test. In February i had gotten back to life, I just re took it imagining it was Feb and I got a 16. Ive never heard of anyone regressing this much. Idk what this means or how to dig myself out again.
I wonder if you could do a video addressing if exercises that provoke a TON of symptoms (i.e. floor moving) actually desensitize the brain? I'm finding that if I bombard my brain with these exercises in certain instances the symptoms go away quickly for those movements. (Then I get them back in public which is a trigger for me)......does it make sense persisting through an exercise thats so intense would dial down the dizziness so much? I feel like I have to trigger my symptoms to be able to work through them and I suppose an exercise is a controlled envioronment vs in public (being in public, people and movement around triggers me). I know you've mentioned any movement is a VRT but I wonder about this spefiic method or persisting through CRAZY levels of dizziness to dial it down? It weirdly works for me with exercises in particular. Not sure how to translate that into (or if I'd even be the same) public spaces. My guess is I'd have too much anxiety to stay somewhere in public triggering me for so long BUT I would do it daily if I knew id have a similar effect
My thought would be to find intermediate exercises- something that lands you somewhere in between full blown/overwhelming symptoms and mild symptoms. You mentioned being in public. For example, it's one thing to do a full blown grocery shopping- that's overwhelming for many people without dizziness- but going into a smaller store, without time pressure, just to get one thing from one aisle- that's a lot easier. Keep in mind that your stress levels have a direct relationship to your dizziness levels. But yes from my experience, if you can push through exposure, your brain figures out that these triggers are no longer dangerous.
@@TheSteadyCoach Thank you very much! I'm having a rough time not on meds in public. I have FND and PPPD so I think I need to start small (in a small store, less time) then work up.
Does menopause hinder recovery through hormone imbalances as I feel currently anxiety is coming out of nowhere, when I haven’t been stressed or emotional - although I have had lots in recent months, which I know from your other videos this is a contributory factor. And vestibular symptoms and vestibular migraines are coming more regularly, I had “normal” migraines during my teens and then nothing until I hit peri-menopause when I also contracted labyrinthitis and following months of recovery from that had a diagnosis of vestibular migraine. Which comes and goes, but which recently, with a further drop in oestrogen and progesterone have come back and aren’t budging.
It can- here's a video about it! I do recommend considering medical options like HRT when you're going through dizziness recovery and your hormones are fluctuating. ua-cam.com/video/6Jh8uBVm22w/v-deo.html
What hormones are related to and trigger vestibular? This topic seems to be out there but not alot of definitive information on it. Since my daughter has started it started with just headaches now they are full blow dizzy spells where she either all but passes out, pukes, and then the headaches comes on but is usually down and out the rest of the day. Can birth control possibly help the hormonal aspect of these?
Hi Erika, I have a video on female hormones that might help ua-cam.com/video/6Jh8uBVm22w/v-deo.html and yes for some people birth control can help but for others it does not
When clients recovered from the dizziness, did they also simultaneously recover from other vestibular migraine symptoms such as ear fullness and tinnitus?
My doctor says the ringing and fullness feeling in the ear is associated with Ménière’s disease and not vestibular migraine. For me, I don’t have ringing and fullness during an attack, so that’s why the doc suspects migraine. Good luck
Hi Dr Yo I stumbled upon this video, I’m curious what exercises did you give the patient mentioned in this video? I have been suffering from vestibular migraine for the past year. My symptoms started 6 months post partum when I stopped breastfeeding in the night. I don’t have headaches but I have horrible vertigo and aura.. I would love to see some solutions and am determined to get better. I just started some VRT. I checked out some comments on this thread but cannot access those links. Could you please post any links to possible solutions? Thanks so much
We worked a bit on exercises but 95% of it was understanding where the symptoms were coming from, and working on understanding and letting go of the emotions that were behind her symptoms (her symptoms basically disappeared once we did that- after years of suffering). I am so very sorry to hear what you're going through. There is a lot more on my channel on these topics. it's summed up in my course (it's 100% free) and you're welcome to sign up for it if you'd like at thesteadycoach.com/free-course or you can check out one of my newer videos, or consider reading one of the books I recommend on my channel, especially Unlearn Your Pain by Dr. Howard Schubiner.
@@TheSteadyCoach Thank you so much for the response and for putting that course together. I will go over it with great interest and hope that this illness is short lived. I’m sure it will help countless individuals like myself that feel trapped with a vestibular illness. I’ve been trying to get a good statistic on how many people are living with this daily - it’s not available but my guess it is more common than 1-3% of the population. I’m not really sure how I got this but hoping to get more answers with more research and perhaps connecting with your community. Thanks again really looking forward to the course.
I am on a strong dose of steroids and other meds because I have a medical problem. I am now experiencing visual migraines, loss of balance again and vestibular migraines. Can this be caused by the medications, my poor health or lack of activity because I have been in Hospital?
please post more videos on pppd and mdds !!! Tips and treatments! Those are so helpful and motivational!!
Thank you Dr Yo for your talent and wisdom. A few months ago I could not rely on any full week being symptom free therefore I hesitated in making any plans for living my life with the exception of eating out close to home. I would wear a hat to eat out hoping I could block the light from my eyes and avoid the start of another vestibular migraine. Immediately after the meal I would head home knowing if I went into a grocery store or any well lit store I would get off balance and begin other migraine symptoms. I actually could not believe on our very first session I noticed a change in my tinnitus! I said.. come on that can't be! It really did change so from that moment on I didn't care if you said.. ok turn 3 times and do that only on Monday... I said ok! As we moved forward and I continued to do as you instructed and listened to you very intently in our sessions I got better and better and better !!!! AMAZING! Yes. I do continue to have an occasional episode but they are few and mild! When they do occur I pull out my little tricks you taught me and BAM.... it is mild and short! My only regret is there just needs to be one of you for any and all who are suffering.
You are such an incredible person and it's truly been my privilege to get to walk beside you on this journey.
Amazing!!!! 🥺♥️ this really gives me hope
Hello are you the patient described in this video ? Great to hear about your story. I’m a fellow sufferer hoping to get better
@@aartivenkat5835 what are your symptoms
Inspiring and encouraging as ever!
Thank you, Sam!
You are literally a God sent! Thank you so much for your videos...God bless you!
You're so welcome, Betty! Thank you for these kind words and trusting me with your healing! ❤
I've been bed ridden for weeks at a time as well, I feel her pain :( I can really only go for a 5 min walk each day, I can't do any housework or chores, I even find it hard to cook meals.
It's SO amazing to hear that she's only at a 14 now!!
Maybe I could take that test in our next session just to see where I'm at now!
Megen, continue and know it will be get better! I'm certain Dr. Yo would say we are all different and therefore our recovery not always the same but I KNOW if you follow her leading you will improve.
Pam Wasmundt Thank you for your reply it means a lot 🥰
Wow. I just found this video and comment and wanted to say how incredible it is to look back after your success story 🥹 There is truly hope for all of us ❤️
@@sarahmichelle3222 there really is hope 🥺 I went through years of this until finally I came through the other side. Don’t give up!!!♥️
Hi Patient! Please come on this show!
Agreed!
Hello, can I ask which techniques you used to help this lady please? Was it just the normal cawthorne type exercises or are you going to be doing another video explaining which techniques she used? Thanks!
Hello Gill, this is an excellent question. I have already published a video on this (look for How to treat your own chronic dizziness), but I am about to launch a course that talks about this more thoroughly. I'm planning to release it later this week. It will be completely free, you can sign up here to get notified when it launches members.thesteadycoach.com/free-chronic-dizziness-course . In short, she did not need many vestibular exercises, we really needed to work more on stress. The course goes over some of those techniques in detail.
Couch ridden is terrible. Sat there for at least 4 months.
It is something I wish no one ever had to go through.
Idk why I havent subscribed to you until now! I seen your videos before. I would love to see your student so she can diagnose me 😂
I suffer from vestibular problems myself. Ive been told about vestibular migraines but idk if thats really what I got or not and Im pretty much in the same boat as the person you were talking about. Its been 5 yrs. I live at home, I do leave the house but not very often. Mostly for my appontments. I havsnt been social and I used to be. I want to get out of this stage and situation of my life. Most of the time my head feels lightheaded and swaying. I get muscle weakness mostly during the dizzy attacks. Its a horrible feeling 🙏
Hi Ryan, I am sorry, it sounds like youre really not living the life you want to live right now. I have seen people in your position quite often and they (and you) can get back to living full lives.
I have loved finding your videos Dr.Yo!!! I was diagnosed with the stipular migraine and triple PPPD this last year… I have been on this crazy ride for 19 months!! 🥴 Never in my life did I think this would last as long as it has! I had the dark couch ridden days in the earlier months but I am getting better now!! I have more good days now than bad I can go into grocery stores now without much of a problem! I’m walking for exercise 15 minutes a day now! I can go out to eat And be in crowds without it bugging me much! Hang in there everyone who is just starting this journey and fells despair!!! I’m truly doing great but my biggest concern is leaving my town…😱we have a trip coming up and I have not been on a vacation for almost 2 years because of my vestibular illness…I feel ready to start to go places again but I’m sooo scared!!Any suggestions for someone like me I am so scared that it will put me back to square one which is a very bad place to go again.. 😬
Sorry Vestibular migraines not stipular!
Bethany, hi, welcome to my channel and I'm so happy you're here and especially that you are getting better! Thank you so much for sharing hope with others who find my videos. There is so much doom and gloom on the internet about it. Regarding travel, I have good news for you. In my experience, virtually everyone I've worked with has actually had an easier time traveling than being home. Sometimes getting you away from home can get you unstuck from whatever emotional ruts exist at home. I think you are going to be fine! My best advice is stay off Google, keep doing whatever emotional work you're doing, and prepare some comforts (meditations, snacks, etc.) that you can use to be kind to yourself while you travel.
@@TheSteadyCoach thanks!! I really think the best way to get over the fear of travel is just to do it (Easier said than done sometimes)! I will keep watching your channel and give an update after my trip on things that worked for me! 😊
@@bethanywhitehead609hi how r u now.. r u able to travel and did you recover completely
@@sushmasri6964 hey, I am going so much better!! I wouldn’t say completely healed but I can live a pretty normal life. 😊 I can go to stores and travel some and walk and swim! Movies are still hard for me and I have to really listen to my body and system for any warnings on over doing it…🥴 leaps and bounds better than I was though!! Keep believing, I promise with time, things do get better!
Thank you again!
You are so welcome! Thought of you when I made this one!
I just don't want to feel dizzy 24/7. Please help.
Very sorry to hear what you're going through. Have you been able to watch the video I recently published about first steps after diagnosis? Or parasympathetic breathing?
@@TheSteadyCoach started watching videos. I need relief. Dizzy feeling is my worst symptom. Need my life back!
Do you feel like you're rocking swaying bobbing on a boat 24/7? Did you get it after a panic attack? I'm suffering the same for 3 months and it's hell...
@@k.baller5140 in the beginning I felt like I was on a cruise ship, after a few months it's just a dizzy feeling, no spinning. I just feel off...kinda like I am wearing the wrong glasses. My symptoms started with what felt like regular headaches, eye tiredness, sleepiness, dizzy feeling, and sensitivity to screens. I thought I had computer syndrome or maybe that I needed to update my glasses but nope that wasn't it. I feel that dizzy feeling 24/7.... fullness in the ears and certain head motions make it a little worse. I also have what feels like sinus headaches with pain and pressure in the bridge of my nose and sometimes ear fullness/ pressure. The worst of my symptoms is feeling dizzy. I barely drive anymore because it gives me a headache and makes my dizziness worse. Really sucks.
@@JustRaine97 how after you now
I just got a 70 on that test. In February i had gotten back to life, I just re took it imagining it was Feb and I got a 16. Ive never heard of anyone regressing this much. Idk what this means or how to dig myself out again.
I wonder if you could do a video addressing if exercises that provoke a TON of symptoms (i.e. floor moving) actually desensitize the brain? I'm finding that if I bombard my brain with these exercises in certain instances the symptoms go away quickly for those movements. (Then I get them back in public which is a trigger for me)......does it make sense persisting through an exercise thats so intense would dial down the dizziness so much? I feel like I have to trigger my symptoms to be able to work through them and I suppose an exercise is a controlled envioronment vs in public (being in public, people and movement around triggers me). I know you've mentioned any movement is a VRT but I wonder about this spefiic method or persisting through CRAZY levels of dizziness to dial it down? It weirdly works for me with exercises in particular. Not sure how to translate that into (or if I'd even be the same) public spaces. My guess is I'd have too much anxiety to stay somewhere in public triggering me for so long BUT I would do it daily if I knew id have a similar effect
My thought would be to find intermediate exercises- something that lands you somewhere in between full blown/overwhelming symptoms and mild symptoms. You mentioned being in public. For example, it's one thing to do a full blown grocery shopping- that's overwhelming for many people without dizziness- but going into a smaller store, without time pressure, just to get one thing from one aisle- that's a lot easier. Keep in mind that your stress levels have a direct relationship to your dizziness levels. But yes from my experience, if you can push through exposure, your brain figures out that these triggers are no longer dangerous.
@@TheSteadyCoach Thank you very much! I'm having a rough time not on meds in public. I have FND and PPPD so I think I need to start small (in a small store, less time) then work up.
So how do I get over my vestibular migraines?
I go over all of my techniques and recommendations on how to heal in my free course thesteadycoach.com/free-course
Hi Dr Yo! Do you think there is ever a time and place when vestibular migraine medication is effective for some relief? Thank you!
Hi Jessica, I discuss more on this topic in this video ua-cam.com/video/NLnSNCpewh4/v-deo.htmlsi=uMdhhsIkM9eP7ILj
Hi
Does menopause hinder recovery through hormone imbalances as I feel currently anxiety is coming out of nowhere, when I haven’t been stressed or emotional - although I have had lots in recent months, which I know from your other videos this is a contributory factor. And vestibular symptoms and vestibular migraines are coming more regularly, I had “normal” migraines during my teens and then nothing until I hit peri-menopause when I also contracted labyrinthitis and following months of recovery from that had a diagnosis of vestibular migraine. Which comes and goes, but which recently, with a further drop in oestrogen and progesterone have come back and aren’t budging.
It can- here's a video about it! I do recommend considering medical options like HRT when you're going through dizziness recovery and your hormones are fluctuating. ua-cam.com/video/6Jh8uBVm22w/v-deo.html
What hormones are related to and trigger vestibular? This topic seems to be out there but not alot of definitive information on it. Since my daughter has started it started with just headaches now they are full blow dizzy spells where she either all but passes out, pukes, and then the headaches comes on but is usually down and out the rest of the day. Can birth control possibly help the hormonal aspect of these?
Hi Erika, I have a video on female hormones that might help ua-cam.com/video/6Jh8uBVm22w/v-deo.html and yes for some people birth control can help but for others it does not
When clients recovered from the dizziness, did they also simultaneously recover from other vestibular migraine symptoms such as ear fullness and tinnitus?
My doctor says the ringing and fullness feeling in the ear is associated with Ménière’s disease and not vestibular migraine. For me, I don’t have ringing and fullness during an attack, so that’s why the doc suspects migraine. Good luck
Yes, these can be symptoms of neural circuit issues and heal alongside the dizziness.
Hi Dr Yo I stumbled upon this video, I’m curious what exercises did you give the patient mentioned in this video? I have been suffering from vestibular migraine for the past year. My symptoms started 6 months post partum when I stopped breastfeeding in the night. I don’t have headaches but I have horrible vertigo and aura.. I would love to see some solutions and am determined to get better. I just started some VRT. I checked out some comments on this thread but cannot access those links. Could you please post any links to possible solutions? Thanks so much
We worked a bit on exercises but 95% of it was understanding where the symptoms were coming from, and working on understanding and letting go of the emotions that were behind her symptoms (her symptoms basically disappeared once we did that- after years of suffering). I am so very sorry to hear what you're going through. There is a lot more on my channel on these topics. it's summed up in my course (it's 100% free) and you're welcome to sign up for it if you'd like at thesteadycoach.com/free-course or you can check out one of my newer videos, or consider reading one of the books I recommend on my channel, especially Unlearn Your Pain by Dr. Howard Schubiner.
@@TheSteadyCoach Thank you so much for the response and for putting that course together. I will go over it with great interest and hope that this illness is short lived. I’m sure it will help countless individuals like myself that feel trapped with a vestibular illness. I’ve been trying to get a good statistic on how many people are living with this daily - it’s not available but my guess it is more common than 1-3% of the population. I’m not really sure how I got this but hoping to get more answers with more research and perhaps connecting with your community. Thanks again really looking forward to the course.
I've just been diagnosed with vestibular migraine but I have it with disassociation. Is it normal to be very sleepy with this condition?
Yes, fatigue is a very common symptom. ua-cam.com/video/eLawzXnjIP0/v-deo.htmlsi=2AXYV_pVbnQb6Eor
I am on a strong dose of steroids and other meds because I have a medical problem. I am now experiencing visual migraines, loss of balance again and vestibular migraines.
Can this be caused by the medications, my poor health or lack of activity because I have been in Hospital?
It can be caused by all three as well as medical trauma if you have been ill and uncertain.
How?
Please consider taking my free course as I go into more detail on how to heal thesteadycoach.com/free-course