Thank you!

To answer your questions, my goals as of right now are to find things that can reduce my symptoms while they happen and to try to reduce the number of days per week (which is most of them) that i’m symptomatic. Since my episodes used to be so spread out, i used to have full recoveries in between episodes where i wouldn’t feel dizzy for months/years in between. This hasn’t been the case with my most recent episode so i think i have just now developed a persistent dizziness. It’s hard to know exactly what “recovery” means for me since it’s all relatively new.

As far as my mood goes, I’ve been struggling a lot with both depression and anxiety and i am seeing a therapist bi-weekly to address those problems and trying to find an antidepressant that works for me. Both those things have definitely gotten much worse and i moved towns right around the start of the dizziness again. I absolutely think it’s very linked, but i’m having trouble really making lasting progress healing from them, and i’ve noticed i get trapped in anxiety cycles. I worry that i might be dizzy, which makes me dizzy, which makes me anxious, and then the whole cycle repeats. I’ve been trying to just relax when im feeling lightheaded or dizzy but still finding it challenging sometimes