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collapse followed by weeks of vertigo - Stroke or acoustic neuroma?

I have recently been travelling on mountain road and was caught off guard by
an intense feeling of dizziness when I collapsed upon getting out of our car - husband driving..  After days of vertigo the only other symptom is and my tongue
deviating mildly to the left side - yet no slurring of speech or difficulties with language a pysician told me I had a mild stroke.  Nothing showed up on a CAT scan.  I am a speech therapist and never heard of prolonged vertigo and stroke.  I'm thinking acoustic nueroma pressing on a cranial nerve. I do have mild hearing loss  - no tinnitus and experience dizziness when I move my eyes from right to left.
Where should I go from here to uncover my vestibular malady or IS iT really a stroke???
thank you,
Mary
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Ent and get an MRI of the vestibular. I had one but it was negative and not contrast agent was used. If your going to eliminated acoustic neuroma you might want to ask the radiologist if contrast is necessary, I had mine done in a clinic in montreal and it not like in a hospital so not sure how inportant the contrast is. The thing is that acuosting neuroma starts out very small and may be difficult to see in my opinion, looked at my MRI myself its a density profile and I found that the sections were spaced by few milimeter..so if the neuroma is only a point of a needle it may be missed. Im not a radiologist but i find that most doctors take the results as is without questioning the resolution of the MRI thus you hope they know what they are doing. Also get the brain and neck checked out. I found out a disc herniation in the thorasic area, get me feeling sick  lightheaded everytime especially when neck is strain or when i bend down ot lift anything. Also had hearing loss low frequency on left side for few month that corrected intself but left with tinnitus and low vestibular function on the left hearing.  Included are fatigue and anxiety.
Seems to me it was link to my nect effecting the hearing and balance...this sort of symtoms is more longer lasting as likely the disk herniation could cause pinching on a nerve or i may have been lucky enough to get a virus.  Long driving, neck muscles strains and if posture is off you could have a neck problem. Some reseach have indicated neck can cause tinnitus, lightheadednes, vertigo, headaches etc. Stress and neck mucsle tension..  

Relaxation, reduce tension in neck area, good posture helped a bit but other drugs like clonazepham, monocor help with anxiety especially if symptoms is difficult to live with. good luck
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Hi i am not sure of the name of the condition but you are most likely experincing what mountain climbers do.  You actually need to be supplied with oxygen when this happens.
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