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About a week ago I suddenly developed vertigo after tilting my head to the right. I’d never experienced anything like it before, so I had no idea what was happening. The room was spinning, I felt very nauseous, and I lay down on the floor and tried drinking some water, it was a heat wave / super hot day so I thought it might be heat exhaustion.

Eventually I went to sleep, and by the next morning the nausea had mostly gone.

Now, a week later, I’m still left with some residual lightheadedness, feeling “off,” and very mild nausea. Has anyone else experienced this after BPPV? How long did it take to fully recover, and did anything help?

Yes, the current heat wave is horrible.

But I can’t help thinking that, for many of us, this is what we have to deal with on a daily basis: waking up drenched, throwing the covers off, struggling to cool down, and feeling exhausted

The heatwave will hopefully end soon and is temporary - but for most of us dealing with these kind of symptoms is a long term reality

I notice this from people around me, sometimes subtly other times more directly, that they’re trying to push me to go on a date or almost make me feel strange for not doing that. I even found out that one person I know told another person I know that “it is so sad that x (me) is not dating”. It’s as if they don’t see me as complete.
I feel also that the whole thing of that as a woman, you can find a partner who has more money and who would then give you more financial security is still there, sadly.

Honestly, at this stage of my life I am so happy to NOT come home to someone and probably potentially having to compromise. I’m enjoying being in the present more than ever and having given up on any kind of “timeline” as in “by 35 I want to have a partner and a child” is EXTREMELY FREEING.

So, I know that - but how do I (with kindness) tell these people that this is probably not something I want? And even if I wanted all this, it is just not good manners to push this stance onto others and view them as not fully complete.

Edit to add; I’m in my early 30s.

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