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Chronic. Invisible. Debilitating. (and hard to diagnose.)


These 3 words describe Soeun’s physical discomfort when he is in Australia.



The actual blog part of this blog (Scrapbook) is partly things I wrote in June 2016 during Migraine Awareness month reflecting back on 2011-12, trying to understand things, as well as links to relevant articles I'm reading these days. And bits and pieces of other things about life with the Dizzy Monster.


Sunday, June 26, 2016

timeline 2011-2012, part 4, doctor 6- the long awaited ENT appointment

After a long wait it was finally the day when we could see an ENT doctor.

By this stage Soeun had been in pain for about half a year. Although he couldn't totally explain it I could see the impact that it had on him.

He was really excited to finally be able to come to Australia and do some study we had been talking about for the past 5 years. It was easy to see how relevant the subjects were to his work back in Cambodia.
But frustratingly the tinnitus, ear fullness, dizziness was too overwhelming for him to think clearly. These also brought on nausea and fatigue.

Half a year of debilitating symptoms  and so far all we had was a pile of negative test results. I was hoping the visit to the ENT would be a breakthrough.

But I don't even remember what he did now, apart from telling us he was referring us to another doctor. Oh and charged us a lot of money.

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