Author Topic: Wonderful explanation of balance and balance problems - Newbies read this!!  (Read 21418 times)

cindyj

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Hey, Sue, thanks for bumping this!  I read it when you first put it out here in '09 and it was so helpful...was especially good for my husband to read - helped him understand my issue better...and gave me a bit more sympathy ;)

Cindy
rt side 1.5 cm - Translab on 11/07/08 Dr. Friedman & Dr. Schwartz of House Ear Institute,
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Lynn Mc

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Thanks for bumping this up.  I am making a copy for my not so better half!  Awesome article...answerer's a lot of questions.
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Dr's McKenna/McCall at Mass Eye & Ear,
Dr. Barker at MGH. 
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Glad this was helpful. 
Sue in Vancouver, USA
 2 cm Left side
Diagnosed 3/13/06 GK 4-18-06
Gamma Knife Center of Oregon
My Blog, where you can read my story.


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Chances3

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Very informative.  I wear progressive lenses, I wonder if I should switch to a flat lense.
Anyone wants to weigh in on this ?

Sue

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Progressive lenses hasn't bothered me....
Sue in Vancouver, USA
 2 cm Left side
Diagnosed 3/13/06 GK 4-18-06
Gamma Knife Center of Oregon
My Blog, where you can read my story.


http://suecollins-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello.html


The only good tumor be a dead tumor. Which it's becoming. Necrosis!
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Think my 10 year old daughter will read the article?  We went hiking this weekend and she was embarrassed that I was hugging every tree that I passed.  Dad used to climb the hills with her, what happened?  Now I know.

Thanks for passing this along.
Tim
8/31/09 hydrocephulus-emergent drain
9/2/09 5 cm AN debulked, Retro Sig Abbott NW
5/18/10 Second debulk, Retro Sig Abbott NW
1/31/11 Translab, 7/12 Graft Mayo Rochester, MN
2/12/11 Lumbar drain
3/14/11 Eustacian tube packing procedure for CSF leak
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Sue

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Save it for her to read when she is a little older!!  ;)

Sue in Vancouver
Sue in Vancouver, USA
 2 cm Left side
Diagnosed 3/13/06 GK 4-18-06
Gamma Knife Center of Oregon
My Blog, where you can read my story.


http://suecollins-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello.html


The only good tumor be a dead tumor. Which it's becoming. Necrosis!
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Mei Mei

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Thanks for this great article Sue and DonnaLynn.    I've been so preoccupied with my headaces that I've been ignoring my balance.   This fall down half a flight of stairs today really shook me up.   I don't get dizzy, I just fall in my tracks.

Thanks again,
Mei Mei   :o
1 cm Tumor RetrosigmoidSurgery on Jan 12 at Johns Hopkins
Drs. Niparko and Tamargo
35dB loss pre surgery and now SSD
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CHD63

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Hi Chances3 .....

Had a thought about this ..... if you are already used to the progressive lens, you might be just fine.  I just would not change to progressive lens if you did not already have them because as Donnalynn said, it could really mess with your balance with the distortion.

I have trifocal flat lens (did before AN diagnosis).  I am very careful when walking to tip my head down far enough to look over the near-vision range.

Because of my years as an accompanist, I am very much an eye mover, rather than a head mover so progressive lens were never an option for me (I did actually try them.).

Just my thoughts .....

Clarice
Right MVD for trigeminal neuralgia, 1994, Pittsburgh, PA
Left retrosigmoid 2.6 cm AN removal, February, 2008, Duke U
Tumor regrew to 1.3 cm in February, 2011
Translab AN removal, May, 2011 at HEI, Friedman & Schwartz
Oticon Ponto Pro abutment implant at same time; processor added August, 2011

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Bounce it back to the top.....

Sue in Vancouver, USA
 2 cm Left side
Diagnosed 3/13/06 GK 4-18-06
Gamma Knife Center of Oregon
My Blog, where you can read my story.


http://suecollins-blog.blogspot.com/2010/02/hello.html


The only good tumor be a dead tumor. Which it's becoming. Necrosis!
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