today's unpleasantness

[darthfox]

This morning when I woke up the room was spinning - it was worst when I sat up, but it was still plenty bad when I was lying down, whether my eyes were open or closed. Holding onto Himself's hand did very little to ground me, but it was slightly comforting. It took me several minutes to e-mail in to work that I was going to have to stay home and hope to be able to do some work a little later in the day if I could, and then I went back to sleep for about three more hours. (When Himself got up, the mattress shifting made it feel like I was about to fall right off the bed. I didn't like it one bit.) When I finally did get up, I really did stagger for several minutes before I finally started to steady a bit. (The general Facebook diagnosis is vertigo, and it's a possibility. It sometimes seemed to ease up for a minute right after I turned over. But I had all the vestibular tests a couple of years ago and they all came back normal - not that things can't change in there. Last time I was mysteriously dizzy it turned out to be the pinched nerve in my shoulder. The time before that it turned out to be a head cold that chose to make itself known right after I had my allergy shot, so it seemed way more serious than it was. To be clear: these are the only times in my life that I can remember being mysteriously dizzy, and they were seven years ago, three and a half (I think) years ago, and this morning.)

I'm okay now but I'm a little scared to go to bed tonight. :-( I think I'm going to take a Benadryl to knock me out, or else I might lie there afraid and never fall asleep.