What did you love when you were younger but fear as you get older? was a question on r/AskReddit today and my answer was:

Heights.

As a younger man I clambered about buildings, ruins, mountains and so on without a qualm but in the latter part of my 40s vertigo began to take hold and it has grown worse

#phobias #vertigo #fears #irrational

#MénièresDisease #Vertigo #Caffine #Salt #HearingLoss #Balance

It took three years to get a diagnosis of Menieres--2017 to 2020

It's been 5 years since I had caffinated coffee.
It's been 7 years since I shook a salt shaker.
It's been one day since I stopped decaf coffee.

I began having severe vertigo last week. 3 very strong episodes, what I scale as 8 out of 10, 10 being a drop attack. Yes, that's just what it sounds like--no warning, no spinning or tilting--just down.

2 of them happened while I was driving. It really SUCKS and is very scary because even trying to get to the side of the road seems impossible when everything is sliding and tilting and moving up and down.
One other was milder.

This week one severe (again while driving!) and three small episodes.

I had been free of it for
nearly two full years, after an injection into my right ear drum.

I'm not fucking around with it. I called my doctor and am scheduling a second injection---the risk is deafness on that ear, whech already can't hear. Th eprevious injection caused no drum tissue damage, so it's worth it for me.

End of my pissing and moaning. I am very grateful for medicare and secondary insurance.

Looking like my most recent vertigo has been set up by lying in bed reading on my phone.

Reasoning:
Vertigo is happening not when, and immediately after, I roll in bed.

Instead it is happening some 10 seconds after I stop rolling in bed, when my neck eventually relaxes.
The "not relaxing" appears to be under voluntary control.

Physical therapy on my neck and jaw stops the vertigo happening - until I've been lying on in bed reading for +60 minutes. Then it comes back.

#vertigo

‘End of Life’ #4 takes a vivid, violent trip down memory lane

Dives deep into the past, and in the process uncovers the hidden depths of Eddie Stallion and his father.
https://aiptcomics.com/2026/05/20/end-of-life-4-review/

#DC #Vertigo