Going on week two with Vertigo UGH!

[Digger]

I have bad Meniere's Disease AND BPPV!

One is bad enough!

Meneire's can be helped by Serc taken regularly but BPPV (Benign Positional Paroxysmal Vertigo) is to do with loose bits of calcium (called ear rocks) floating around in your balance canal and downing you like a hit on the head with an axe. Usually something has damaged your ear to cause this condition like in my case a close explosion.

I spent 3 days on my back not daring to move lest the room take off again, just last week. It's a bloody mongrel thing! Tinnitus seems mild compared to this.

Exercises given me by my ENT specialist help after a few weeks but then a while later it suddenly hits you again. If I swallow a stemitel (anti nausea tab) within seconds of the first indication then it usually subsides after half an hour but any longer and I'm crook for days.

I pity any of you that share either of these afflictions and suggest you see a specialist when you can as it helped me heaps. Before that I was crook for at least half of each week.

Good luck!

 

[BigDipper15]

I have vertigo as well. Not super severe but 2-3 times per year I get it for about 48 hours where I can barely stand up. I have the prescription meds for nausea which don't really work and my wife (who is an ENT physician) does those maneuvers to my head which sometimes help a little but not too much. I usually just have to let it run its course.

 

[Pwrmac7600]

Well I went into an ENT and he gave me the excersises to do, and he also prescribed a motion sickness patch for behind the ear. I have to say the patch really seemed to help lessen the dizziness. I can still slightly feel it there, and if I stand or sit to quickly it hits me hard for a moment. But with the patches the constant severe dizzy feeling is gone. It seems like it is getting a little better each day, but thankfully I am back at a functioning state again, and able to drive.

 

[rockinlespaul]

Well I went into an ENT and he gave me the excersises to do, and he also prescribed a motion sickness patch for behind the ear. I have to say the patch really seemed to help lessen the dizziness. I can still slightly feel it there, and if I stand or sit to quickly it hits me hard for a moment. But with the patches the constant severe dizzy feeling is gone. It seems like it is getting a little better each day, but thankfully I am back at a functioning state again, and able to drive.

That's great news, glad to hear that!

 

[rcole_sooner]

Might be time for a sleep test.

I hate CPAPs and think it is getting to be be a racket, but I do think they are a must for those who truly need them.

 

[Pwrmac7600]

Pwrmac, how's this week been for you?

Pretty good. The ENT I went to ended up prescribing me prescription strength patches for nausea and motion sickness, and they relieved the dizziness symptoms enough so I was able to function again. and after about a week or so the dizziness finally started to subside. I am still getting random little spells here and there, but I am not dizzy all the time. Thank God!
Thanks for asking!