{"id":11683,"date":"2026-08-05T14:05:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:05:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/?p=11683"},"modified":"2026-08-05T14:05:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-05T21:05:16","slug":"sudden-deafness-and-vertigo-ugh","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/2026\/08\/05\/sudden-deafness-and-vertigo-ugh\/","title":{"rendered":"Sudden Deafness and Vertigo, Ugh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh.<\/p>\n<p>I got the sniffles last week and over the weekend I suddenly went deaf in my left ear and got severe vertigo. I&#8217;ve gotten medical treatment for the deafness, a prednisone injection in my ear, oral prednisone and sinus clearing meds to decrease inflammation in my inner ear. I got PT for the vertigo and it&#8217;s helping, mostly the epley maneuver to relocate calcium crystals that became dislodged in my inner ear. But I&#8217;m still dizzy and can&#8217;t drive. Recovery time for the dizziness is &#8220;days to several weeks, probably&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Did I mention, &#8220;Ugh&#8221;?<\/p>\n<p>Megan and Abigail have been amazing through this!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ugh. I got the sniffles last week and over the weekend I suddenly went deaf in my left ear and got severe vertigo. I&#8217;ve gotten medical treatment for the deafness, a prednisone injection in my ear, oral prednisone and sinus clearing meds to decrease inflammation in my inner ear. I got PT for the vertigo [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11683","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11683"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11684,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11683\/revisions\/11684"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11683"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11683"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lee.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11683"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}