It is now 2011 And I just came accross this posting from 2006 and I would like to up date it. Five years have passed since I wrote that post and the news is really good. I have virtually no more dizzyness the anxiety level is down quite a bit. The prisims that I told you about keep getting better. It seemed like the more time passed the better they became. I don't have that pitching forward feeling anymore. I can sit anywhere at a restrauent and feel confortable. Even the thought of going to restrauents does not cause me to go into a panic like it would have. I am comfortable driveing. I am now in full control of what my eyes are doing. I am very sensitive to what is going on with them. Sometimes when in a store and if I am walking fast and the products on the shelf are whizzeing past me I will feel dizzy I then know to slow down it is too much for my eyes to handle. This usually happins at a store or place I am not familiur with. I realize I have a disability that will not go away. Like not being able to walk but if in a wheel chair you can still function. I will always have one eye higher than the other I cannot change that but I know with the prisims I am able to function. I know not to move my head to quick or that will bring dizzyness on and wth it panic. If this does happen the best thing is I know what is happening and can say oh have to slow down and regroup, not go into a full fledged panic. The down side to all of this is my xanax I have had to go back on half of the dose I was taking. I had had this disability for 40 years the mind had settled into this way of thinking and I thought better to take half of the dose and be able to get on with it than not take it and sit back and not do all I could do in life. It was a trade off but one I will not beat myself up over. For the first time last year I got into a airplane and flew to California. There was absoultly no way I would have ever done that before the prisims. I encourage you all today to look into this prospect if you are having these problems it sure can't hurt you. God Bless you all Yolanda