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mccsurg

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Motion Sickness - GONE!
« on: January 30, 2013, 09:07:25 pm »
Has anyone else had the silver lining gift of completely resolved motion sickness by AN surgery? I used to get motion sick standing on a dock and watching a ship go up and down on the water. Now, nothing. Planes, boats, cars on winding roads, even helicopters. It's amazing and wonderful and by far the best part of the ordeal.

matt

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Removed July 30, 2004

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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #1 on: January 31, 2013, 09:39:23 am »
Yeah, Matt!  ;D

>>Has anyone else had the silver lining gift of completely resolved motion sickness by AN surgery?<<  Yes, it seems so.  (I'm only 16 days post-surgery.)  Prior to surgery, AN-triggered vertigo and resultant motion sickness was part of my daily reality.  Some days were just awful.  I had some pretty bad nausea for a couple days after surgery but no motion sickness the past two weeks.  My recalibration to one-side vestibular is going great.

Onward and upward!

Sudden SSD (right side) 11/08 (erroneously diagnosed as caused by virus)
Chronic vertigo commenced 10/12
Intracochlear neuroma diagnosed via MRI 12/2012
Neuroma and right side cochlea/vestibular mechanism removed 01/15/13 via translabrynthine approach

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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #2 on: February 01, 2013, 01:52:00 pm »
Good for both of you!

I'm on the other side of this coin, never had motion sickness till several months after cyberknife.  Guess it's just part of the package.   ???

Karen
Diagnosed October 2011
Oct '11-9 X 6 mm left ear
Mar '12 - 1.25cm
Tinnitus, imbalance, and mild dizziness (ditsy)
My AN = Annoying Nuisance
Jan'12 W&W
May'12 CK completed
Oct'12 hemifacial spasms
Dec'19 It's back

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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #3 on: February 18, 2013, 05:02:12 pm »
Karen,

Sorry to hear that! I can honestly say that the loss of motion sickness has been, by far, the most positive thing that came out of my surgery.

matt
2.1 cm left sided AN
Removed July 30, 2004

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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #4 on: February 19, 2013, 02:44:30 pm »
good to hear that, Matt

Karen
Diagnosed October 2011
Oct '11-9 X 6 mm left ear
Mar '12 - 1.25cm
Tinnitus, imbalance, and mild dizziness (ditsy)
My AN = Annoying Nuisance
Jan'12 W&W
May'12 CK completed
Oct'12 hemifacial spasms
Dec'19 It's back

pamk

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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #5 on: February 19, 2013, 09:23:10 pm »
Yes, I had the same thing happen! I can even read in a moving car.,
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Translab at House/St Vincent March 09.

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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #6 on: April 11, 2013, 09:50:02 am »
Yes!!!  Had always had terrible motion sickness prior to AN.  All Gone :)
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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #7 on: April 11, 2013, 01:55:35 pm »
Yeah!! That's one way of turning lemons into lemonade! For Myself, I am waiting for something awesome to happen to me, like super mental powers or something...:)
Jay
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Re: Motion Sickness - GONE!
« Reply #8 on: April 11, 2013, 03:36:46 pm »
Matt ~

I didn't have motion sickness pre-surgery but I couldn't lie on my back and look up without getting nauseatingly dizzy.  Post-surgery I can lie on my back and look up with no problem at all.  Apparently, our respective ANs caused varying individual problems that removal of the tumor resolved.  Definitely a pleasant 'bonus'. 

Jim
4.5 cm AN diagnosed 5/06.  Retrosigmoid surgery 6/06.  Follow-up FSR completed 10/06.  Tumor shrinkage & necrosis noted on last MRI.  Life is good. 

Life is not the way it's supposed to be. It's the way it is.  The way we cope with it is what makes the difference.