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Post-Treatment => Balance Issues => Topic started by: 4cm in Pacific Northwest on November 28, 2009, 11:22:49 pm

Title: Balance issues after the BIG thanksgiving meal?
Post by: 4cm in Pacific Northwest on November 28, 2009, 11:22:49 pm: Hello fellow AN'ers who have the occasional balance slip up...

I started this thread over on the AN community and I am wondering if any of you may be able to answer my question, over there, re balance, wonky head and diet issues.
http://anausa.org/forum/index.php?topic=11201.0

Daisy Head Mazy
Title: Re: Balance issues after the BIG thanksgiving meal?
Post by: leapyrtwins on November 30, 2009, 06:52:56 am: DHM -

saw your original post. Didn't answer because I didn't have wonky head after a big Thanksgiving dinner.

Guess you can count me as a no.

Sorry I didn't respond before.

Jan
Title: Re: Balance issues after the BIG thanksgiving meal?
Post by: stoneaxe on December 01, 2009, 07:55:13 pm: Same here...and I ate WAY too much.....then again I'm not a very good gauge...wonkiness and balance issues pretty much gone these days.
Title: Re: Balance issues after the BIG thanksgiving meal?
Post by: leapyrtwins on December 01, 2009, 08:13:01 pm: Quote from: stoneaxe on December 01, 2009, 07:55:13 pm
Same here...and I ate WAY too much.....then again I'm not a very good gauge...wonkiness and balance issues pretty much gone these days.

Good point, Bob. I'm probably not a good guage either. I only have wonkiness and balance issues when I'm over-tired and I slept late Thanksgiving morning.

Jan
Title: Re: Balance issues after the BIG thanksgiving meal?
Post by: DR on December 02, 2009, 03:44:58 pm: I was 3 weeks post-op on Thanksgiving and can say, without a doubt, that eating too much did not cause any balance issues. I'm pretty sure that going without a nap that day did contribute to dizziness a few hours later, but eating like a pig did not :P
Title: Re: Balance issues after the BIG thanksgiving meal?
Post by: Dr. Dean on December 05, 2009, 08:51:47 am: Daisy Head Mazy

Of course, it also matters how much alcohol you drank, if any.
That aside, I also found a correlation between eating and wooziness.
Before I was diagnosed with a 15mm AN, I would get woozy on my after-dinner walks (wine or no wine).
It probably has something to do with your blood being shunted from your limbs (and probably cerebellum) to your digestive system.

Another thing that may be affecting you is â€œrepetitive motionâ€.
After surgery I would get woozy washing the dishes; and after 23 people over for Thanksgiving, thatâ€™s a lot of dishes; it made me very woozy.

Since my GN surgery has shrunk my AN by 32%, and since I do my â€œcerebellum-resetting exercises,â€ I donâ€™t get woozy any more after dinner; notwithstanding a nice bottle of wine.
You can find these great exercises at http://www.personalityfinesse.com/pdfshow.php?pdf=12 (http://www.personalityfinesse.com/pdfshow.php?pdf=12) (ignore the ad).

I hope that this helps,

Dr. Dean
Title: Re: Balance issues after the BIG thanksgiving meal?
Post by: 4cm in Pacific Northwest on December 05, 2009, 07:31:02 pm: Thanks Dr Dean,

I WILL try the exercises.

DHM :)