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Hello and welcome, my name is Lynn Brown. The aim of this web site is to offer support and information to individuals, and their family and friends, who have directly or indirectly, had their lives affected by the prescription drug gentamicin.
Gentamicin is an aminoglycoside (antibiotic) that can have devastating side effects. It can cause deafness, severe kidney damage and completely destroy the vestibular system which is essential to an individuals sense of balance. Often there is a need to learn to walk again using other sensory and visual cues.
Normally the vestibular system allows the brain to cancel out head motion from the visual images around us. Without it a visual disturbance (oscillopsia) gives a sensation that something fixed is moving or wavering back and forth. This can cause a person to appear to be intoxicated when they walk so I call these people Wobblers.
I hope you will find comfort in knowing you are not alone. Follow the links to learn more and read other peoples stories. Join the support groups and by sharing the good and bad days help us all to feel better prepared to get on with our lives. If along the way our sharing can also prevent this from happening to others then we have used our adversity for something positive.