50. Austin's Success Story: recovery from BPPV, vertigo, visual symptoms derealization & more with OCD

The Steady Coach

It's a pleasure to share Austin's success story with you today! Austin always had a fear of dizziness as well as OCD and anxiety, so it was his nightmare when he first experienced dizziness symptoms. Everything started May 2023 with a bout of BPPV that quickly morphed into dizziness, derealization, visual sway, chronic pain and more. Despite starting an SSRI, things progressively got worse until he was basically housebound in November 2023. Thankfully, at that point he decided there was nothing wrong him and he started desensitizing himself to his symptoms. In this interview, he describes some of the tools he used and how he's doing today.

Most notably, Austin experienced spinning vertigo as one of his symptoms. He even describes being able to bring it on just by focusing on it and feeling anxious! Spinning vertigo is excluded from the diagnostic definition of PPPD so many people who have it fear that they don’t have a neural circuit problem, but as Austin demonstrates, it absolutely can be a neural circuit symptom. Vestibular and medical testing can rule out a structural problem that is causing it.

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