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The vertigo has mostly gone away. Whatever caused it has passed for the time being. I still feel a bit unbalanced when I tilt my head back, but the room doesn't spin any more.

The sense of being unbalanced is making the small amount of yoga I do more difficult-- I now wobble doing warrior I. It's a pity because I like warrior I. It's the pose I can normally hold longest. (Every day, right before Sit and Be Fit, I do a series of six yoga poses. I can't hold any of them for very long, but I think I'm improving slowly. I don't know the names of most of the poses or I'd list them.)

Vertigo is an interesting feeling. It rather reminded me of carnival rides, something spinning and swooping but without changes in the direction of gravity. I can see vertigo being crippling-- While it's happening, one can't do anything else but try (and possibly fail) not to fall. I feel lucky that it didn't happen when I stooped to pick things up off the floor or to put dishes in the dishwasher. I'd certainly have fallen. My instinct while it was happening was always to get something firm under me, to lie down or sit down until it passed. Standing up was too difficult. I had to learn not to roll rapidly out of bed in the morning. I had to build pauses into the getting up process.