I was watching a show on TV the other night and thought Mike may be interested:
http://www.pbs.org/kcet/wiredscience/video/286-mixed_feelings.html
The part relating to Mike comes in a little past halfway.
This program aired originally in 2007 and I was wondering where the technology is now.

Here's what one person had to say:
RAVE! Two nights ago I was watching PBS and I saw/heard the narrator describe the answer to what happened to me! The "Wired Science" program was about electrode treatments that were being experimentally used for people with damage to the vestibular nervous system, including on patients that were blind.
Then they interviewed a woman shown riding a bike, who had permanent irreversible damage to her vestibular nerve which caused her to have almost constant vertigo attacks! Her damage was caused by a prescribed antibiotic for an unrelated illness. She was lucky enough to have had her doctor referral to this trial program for vestibular nerve damage treatment with electrodes placed on the tongue ... and her vertigo stopped. In time with repeated electrode treatments it (the nerve) even repaired itself partially. The doctors involved in the program said it appears the brain was "rewiring itself" thanks to the electrical stimulation with the device on her tongue.
My point is ... except for the fact that I was had vertigo attacks caused somehow by taking Celebrex, that woman was just like me. The only difference is I was lucky enough to have been told to stop taking Celebrex before the damage became permanent.

This program unraveled the mystery of WHAT Celebrex had done to cause my vertigo attacks - info my doctor, the FDA, the drug industry, and even my pharmacy failed to know or at least to divulge!

Best of luck Mike!
Mike Healey (9NE)

Last edited by 9ne; 02/25/11 02:26 PM.