Can anyone help me with understanding post surgery wellness?
I had a failed attempted AVM ablation six weeks ago and I am suffering dizziness as my vestibular nerve was damaged during surgery. I have been told six months recovery but I am keen to know if anyone experienced this and if they had s full recovery. I lost my hearing on the left side permanently too.
I can’t help you immediately but I hope you get better. I’ve just had my embolisation and I’m quite dizzy, so I hope I’m not doing the same as you. If I am, we’ll have to work it out between us.
Wish you a speedy recovery. If you or I suffer from dizziness this time in a couple months we should make contact and try to find out if it will settle itself.
I had my craniotomy performed in 1987 and remember it was really strange for quite some time. I was quite affected for at least six months. Then, I had my shunt replaced and things became alot clearer.
I remember having slept alot and that the times that I’d usually have been sleeping were when I’d be wide awake.
It only lasted 3 months for me; I had to go back to high school for my junior year. Also, I had to attend physical, occupational and speech/language 3 days per week after high school, too.
My balance and memory/cognition went to pot when my ventricular shunt ceased to work when I hit my growth spurt; even if an individual with a shunt has gone through his or her growth spurt, his or her shunt can go bad. Please check shunt, regularly.
It’s a physical therapy exercise that might help you.
You stand, place one foot in front, crossed in front of the other; then move sideways, crossing your other foot in font of your first foot and tepeat. It causes you to move sideways.
I’m more than 30 years out. After my craniotomy, I graduated high school, took a degree in Creative Writing and, in 2011, I took a master’s degree in Writing.
I took my first degree in '96 and couldn’t find full-time, permanent employment. Then, I began tutoring higher education writers and worked my way through grad school. I work part-time as a tutor of writing at a university, assist writers, freelance, blog, write, edit and proofread.