Do we have a winner? A new oxymoron?
"medical profession". Once upon a time maybe, now it's just another welfare
(in one form or another)-based transactional industry. One which is based on
getting new Paying Customers for new (see our ad on tv ad nauseum) ailments.
Like Elvis, "professionalism" has left the building.

Sometimes certain motion sickness symptoms can be alleviated by using the
under-wrist pressure point - for some people. There are wristband-with-balls
for this application. I just use the right thumb on left wrist. But I'm also
not driving the copter, either. Anything that's helps works.

Good luck to all of yez.
john

"Zinc" > wrote in message
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>
> On 22-Feb-2009, "Frank ess" > wrote:
>
>> Paddy's Pig wrote:
>> > "Frank ess" > wrote in message
>> > ...
>> >
>> >>> Hang in there Pat,
>> >>>
>> >>> Tony
>> >>
>> >> It's right, what Tony and all have said. No hurry, no worry,
>> >> carphoto-wise.
>> >>
>> >> Now, about vertigo: my doctor actually said, "Bad news: you got
>> >> it; Good news: don't worry about a lengthy recovery, since there
>> >> isn't a cure". The newest versions of Dramamine-like preparations
>> >> seem to work
>> >> good when the effects get intense enough to interfere with life as
>> >> we know (knew) it.
>> >
>> > She's gonna be thrilled to death when I tell her that.
>> >
>> > Is the stuff you take called Antivert (meclizine 25 MG) Frank? Can
>> > it make you drowsy and are there warnings on the bottle not to
>> > drive a car or operate machinery until you know the effects of the
>> > medication?
>> > She can't get her ass in gear since she started taking it the other
>> > day, but she's feeling a bit better when she's awake.
>> >
>> > She's never had this before so it came as a shock. The ER guy said
>> > it was a relatively mild case but it was bad enough. She was
>> > nauseated from the effect of the room spinning.
>>
>> Antivert may be one of those things; mine came off the shelf at
>> Long's, where it was ensconced next to Dramamine.
>>
>> My vertigo comes and goes, and seems to be a good deal milder than
>> your wife's. I pretty much stay stationary when it comes, except when
>> I am going to work under a car. That seems to set it off, and if I
>> don't medicate the waves of nausea begin at about ten minutes and
>> don't subside until I've been vertical for half an hour or so. If I
>> take the meds 30 minutes prior to crawling under there, it stifles the
>> nausea to the point I don't have to upchuck in the sink between
>> episodes of wrenching, or whatever.
>>
>> Inconvenient at best, debilitating at worst. I also have tinnitus;
>> both are "inner ear" phenomena, and probably related, I guess. (What?)
>> (Urp)
>>
>> It's hell, getting old (72 last Thursday); beats hell out of the
>> alternative, though.
>>
>> Wishing there were something more cheerful to share.
>
> A belated happy birthday, Frank.
>
> My wife had vertigo for the first time a couple years ago and it was no
> fun.
> I stayed home from work to watch her for a few days during the worst of
> it,
> but it lasted about three months. I feel sorry for you and Pat's wife, and
> angry that the medical profession offers little help.
>
> --
> Z~