WHOOOOOO I was able to run today!!! And it felt so good :) Still dizzy, I would say 60%, 20% being normal, 80% being last week, and 100% being bed-bound. I'm wearing my glasses. I never use them and I only have sporadic flare-ups. The glasses don't keep it from happening and don't make it go away but they help the symptoms somewhat (although I was reading this morning and the words just went full on blurry even with the glasses on and I couldn't read even after taking the glasses off). But they make me FEEL a little bit less queasy. I've been stumbling a bit with the dizziness around the house and I'm sure I wasn't running straight, but I managed not to run into somebody :)
Made an appointment for another eye test tomorrow and contacted my doctor's office to get a referral to the other balance center in town, The Balance Center. The one I went to when I was going through the testing was the Werner Center and they were no help. Waiting for word back whether the doctor has to see me or will sign off on the referral. If she won't give it without seeing I have an appointment two weeks from tomorrow with her. Darn vacations. They should not have vacations during my flare-ups :)
I took some dramamine and some other stuff that's recommended for motion sickness (can't remember the name of the other one, but it's a natural product), and that helped along with the glasses, enough to allow me to run. I think I can make it through the easy six miles tomorrow.
I started the run and I KNEW I was going to finish. Sometimes I just get that feeling that I know I'm going to be running, the same feeling that first time I ran thirty minutes straight, where you just throw your head back and laugh you're so happy. Sometimes you KNOW you will run.
What's funny is that there's this guy at a weight maching and I just had a feeling he was Blurry Guy from Sunday lol I almost asked him, are you Blurry Guy? ha
My hamstrings hurt alot, they just rotate, quads, hamstrings, butt. And I've been having this pain on the lower right corner of my back during the last couple of runs, no idea what that's from, but I can get through it and it wasn't the whole run.
So glad to be able to run and if I can't I know I can take it to the AMT elliptical.
Had a bike scheduled for tomorrow but the MINIMUM winds are 17 MPH upwards of 30 MPH+. Hell to the no. And Sunday the HIGH winds are 5 MPH. So doing the six mile easy run tomorrow and then a pool swim. Have a tri next week with open water so I think I won't do open water this week with the dizziness and all and just stay in the pool. Then Sunday I can do my 25 miles.
I just feel so appreciative when I can work out, the dizziness has given me through the past year and a half a new appreciation of being able to move (along with the weight loss) and that's what I take from it. Everything we go through is there to either teach us something, make us appreciate something, alert us of something. The dizziness teaches me the importance to enjoy the good when you can and appreciate how lucky I am to be able to do whatever I want physically most of the time. Hopefully the flareup is on the way out, it's been six days.
Oh, and I did 11:09mm average. Hell to the yes :) Decent run.
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