It’s now been about 3 weeks that I’ve been sticking with the vestibular rehabilitation therapy, and I haven’t noticed much of an improvement (but I’m still hopeful that things are going to get better).

The therapist said that not having any subjective improvement (i.e. me feeling better) after only 2 or 3 weeks is normal — that I shouldn’t really feel the effects of the VRT until about the fourth week.

The good news however, is that I have improved in one area. When I first went into the therapist, she asked me to read an eye chart, and then shook my head from side to side and asked me to read it again. Between the no-head-shaking and the head-shaking, I lost three lines (I had to go three lines up to be able to still read the letters).

We tried the same test again last time, and I now only need to go up one line. She said it’s possible she just caught me on a good day, so we won’t know for sure until I go in again, but it may be some kind of sign of improvement.

This is what the therapist described as an ‘objective improvement’ — while I may not feel any better, I still show improved abilities when it comes to how my vestibular system is functioning.

She also let me know that if none if this works, we may to resort to the BrainPort balance device (I embedded a video of the device at work in a previous post) — which connects to your tongue and you have to use for 20 minutes every day (it’s also $10 000, which is far more than I can really afford).

Let’s hope the VRT works.