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Possibilities
Hi Merridith,
About a year or so out from dx as 1.6 cm IDC I suddenly started having difficulties with vertigo. I'd be in the yard gardening and bend over and then couldn't tell down from up and would just topple over with no way to figure out how to stay upright. I don't have an onc locally where I live so I saw my internist about it, and he checked me out with the maneuver for vertigo, and then we agreed to sit on it and see if it continued.
Vertigo is a pretty common problem, but because HER2 has a way of going to the brain and for some there are even no early symptoms, I think Joe and Christine are right - get it checked out if it doesn't sort itself out. I eventually did have the MRI, and the result was considered negative. I am glad I had it because it also gave me a baseline in case other problems crop up.
I just want to add that I continued to have vertigo from time to time until I had a very helpful physical therapist, who gave me exercises specific to a problem I have from an old shoulder injury that tends to cause misalignment of the neck vertebrae just from the neck muscles trying to help the weak shoulder muscles out - PLUS, that was the side of my lumpectomy. As long as I am consistent about doing the exercises I have not had vertigo since then. So you may want to see if you can find a physical therapist who knows anything about that possibility, since most of us end up with some weakness on the side where surgery was performed.
AlaskaAngel
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