The onset of Vertigo

I wake up with a lurch out of a deep sleep. The ceiling is spinning violently in one direction and the bed is also spinning, but in the opposite direction.  I am sandwiched between two twisting worlds; the experience is demonic – the force feels so powerful I’m clinging desperately to the headboard so I won’t get thrown out of bed.  I am going to be sick.

If I move my head so much as a quarter of an inch the world starts spinning.  Not me, just everything around me.  I’m frightened, all I can think of is a stroke; something is terribly wrong.

That was my introduction to Vertigo, and the start of five weeks of hell trying to live with it.  Any head movement whatsoever bought on an attack.  I couldn’t drive, go fishing, bend over…on a bad day I would just have to sit, immobilized and try to cope the pure frustration of feeling trapped and useless.  Vertigo is very debilitating, as any sufferer knows.

My doctor prescribed some heavy-duty seasick medication. They diminished the Vertigo symptoms for a while, but I had to take more and more of them to keep the spinning under control.

5 weeks later I saw a friend and her husband – I was not feeling at all well. I had an attack of vertigo while I was there.  They were both panicked to see me clawing at a wall in an effort not to fall over.

They, as I had initially thought I was having either a stroke, or a fit.  When I explained Vertigo  to them, my friend passed me a bracelet saying I could borrow it.

She said it was called Shuzi, it was ‘health jewellery’ and it was supposed to make people feel better.  She said the only thing she had noticed was that she had stopped bumping into things as she used to and her sport (Bowls) had improved greatly.  I slipped the bracelet on, and we chatted on about other things

Ten minutes later, she asked me if I felt better, because she said, “You look better.”

I had been busy chatting so hadn’t noticed, but when she mentioned it I had a ‘WOW’ moment.  The vertigo had gone. My head felt clear, the fuzziness had gone -  I felt great. I cautiously moved my head. Nothing.  Moved it further, still nothing.  I bent over and touched the floor…still nothing.  It really was gone, for that moment at least

She (very generously I thought) insisted I borrow it for a couple of days, but stipulating that she wanted it back before her next game of Bowls.

I wore it for the afternoon, and for the first time in 5 weeks, I was able to go fishing off the rocks ( I didn’t catch anything, but I did negotiate the rocks with a grace and balance I hadn’t experienced since childhood)

This is the ring I bought

I realised the same afternoon, that the persistent shoulder pain I experienced as a result of stress induced muscle knots had also entirely disappeared.  I truly could not believe that these two things, which both felt like miracles to me, could be attributable to a piece of jewellery, so the only way to prove it was to remove the bracelet and see what happened.

And what happened?  ……..nothing!   No Vertigo and the muscle knots (which are painful) have  not returned. I was sold on Shuzi  – how could I not be?  It has transformed my life -  and so began my journey with Shuzi Health Jewelry

I love my Shuzi ring!  I never take it off, and can’t imagine I ever will, it has done so much for me.  I like it just as a piece of jewellery, and I get lots of comments about it.