Anybody ever have vertigo?

[ERCougar]

Just got back. Last week I was battling a chest cold that I treated with OTCs. I still have an upper respiratory infection and the doc thinks this is what messed up my inner ear and caused all of this. He prescribed some antibiotics for my chest cold and phenergan for the nausea and vomiting hoping that taking care of the former will fix the latter. I hope he's right. ERcoug he said he would have prescribed the meclizine if I didn't have the respiratory infection.

Z-pack? Best antiviral out there.

I'd still pick up some meclizine. It's OTC, cheap, much less sedating than Phenergan, and targets the vertigo a little better.

Given that you have an upper respiratory infection, I'd almost guarantee that you have labyrinthitis/vestibular neuronitis.

Good luck. Hope you get better soon.

[Donuthole]

Z-pack? Best antiviral out there.

I'd still pick up some meclizine. It's OTC, cheap, much less sedating than Phenergan, and targets the vertigo a little better.

Given that you have an upper respiratory infection, I'd almost guarantee that you have labyrinthitis/vestibular neuronitis.

Good luck. Hope you get better soon.

I thought labyrinthitis was when you couldn't stop thinking about the movie Labyrinth. I had that for a couple days once back in the 80s.

[falafel]

I thought labyrinthitis was when you couldn't stop thinking about the movie Labyrinth. I had that for a couple days once back in the 80s.

Duh, its when your labyrinth gets swollen.

[creekster]

I thought labyrinthitis was when you couldn't stop thinking about the movie Labyrinth. I had that for a couple days once back in the 80s.

This movie could well be in the top ten of my personal list of things I cant believe I ever spent money on.

[myboynoah]

Just got back. Last week I was battling a chest cold that I treated with OTCs. I still have an upper respiratory infection and the doc thinks this is what messed up my inner ear and caused all of this. He prescribed some antibiotics for my chest cold and phenergan for the nausea and vomiting hoping that taking care of the former will fix the latter. I hope he's right. ERcoug he said he would have prescribed the meclizine if I didn't have the respiratory infection.

Good to hear, Surfah. I had vertigo once after a long bout with an ear infection. I was more of a man than you. I didn't throw up.

[wuapinmon]

This movie could well be in the top ten of my personal list of things I cant believe I ever spent money on.

Jennifer Connelly!

[beelzebabette]

This movie could well be in the top ten of my personal list of things I cant believe I ever spent money on.

Never heard of it.

[il Padrino Ute]

Never heard of it.

It's an 80s film starring a prepubescent Jennifer Connelly and David Bowie. My kids love it. For me, it's "meh".

[DrumNFeather]

My wife has had it before and it was awful for both of us.

[Donuthole]

I woke up this morning for work with the room spinning around me. I was nauseous to the point I thought I was going to pass out. Similar to the feeling I get when reading in a moving car but 10x worse. Somehow I managed to get dressed, brushed my teeth and made it down stairs. I thought maybe I just sat up too quickly in bed. But then I started vomiting. I have thrown up about 6 times today. I have nothing left in me. I retired to the guest room in the basement where it was cool and dark. I am still very nauseous. The room feels like it's spinning clockwise around me. I have never felt like this before ever. Gidget thinks it may be a migraine or the onset of one. I have never had one so I don't know. I don't have a headache, just some pressure around my head particularly in the back by my brain stem. I have an appointment in an hour with the doctor. This sucks. I just don't want to move for fear of vomiting again.

I had a bout with this on Thursday. Tamping my pillow down with my head and suddenly the room was spinning. Immediate nausea, dizziness, hot flashes, cold sweats, etc. Unreal. First time for me. Was shocking to say the least, and made me completely useless for two days. Glad it has passed (thank you Epley maneuver!), but man, that was rough.

I've had it twice. It absolutely sucked. Hang in there man, it'll pass.

My sister gets vertigo all the time and she gets very scared to go do certain activities, fearing that at any moment vertigo will happen. Not a fun way to live.

I feel for your sister. I was just thinking how if this had happened at a less opportune time, it would have been even more awful. Thankfully I had very little on my calendar thursday and friday. But I began getting worried about how terrible this would be if I were camping or hiking and this happened.

[Jeff Lebowski]

I had a bout with this on Thursday. Tamping my pillow down with my head and suddenly the room was spinning. Immediate nausea, dizziness, hot flashes, cold sweats, etc. Unreal. First time for me. Was shocking to say the least, and made me completely useless for two days. Glad it has passed (thank you Epley maneuver!), but man, that was rough.



I feel for your sister. I was just thinking how if this had happened at a less opportune time, it would have been even more awful. Thankfully I had very little on my calendar thursday and friday. But I began getting worried about how terrible this would be if I were camping or hiking and this happened.

As I have mentioned, my son is a doctor. My wife had this issue recently and he fixed it. He said there are some "stones" in some tubes in your ear floating in a fluid and they help with your sense of balance somehow. Those stones can sometimes move and get stuck in one end of the tube leading to exactly what you describe. There is a very simple way to cure it. You lay down with your head in one direction and then after a minute you carefully rotate it (google it for more details). It works like a charm. My wife went from super dizzy for several days to instantly cured. He says he treats patients for this all the time. AND the fact that your dizziness started when you were tamping the pillow with your head leads me to believe this is what you had.

[Donuthole]

As I have mentioned, my son is a doctor. My wife had this issue recently and he fixed it. He said there are some "stones" in some tubes in your ear floating in a fluid and they help with your sense of balance somehow. Those stones can sometimes move and get stuck in one end of the tube leading to exactly what you describe. There is a very simple way to cure it. You lay down with your head in one direction and then after a minute you carefully rotate it (google it for more details). It works like a charm. My wife went from super dizzy for several days to instantly cured. He says he treats patients for this all the time. AND the fact that your dizziness started when you were tamping the pillow with your head leads me to believe this is what you had.

Yep. With the help of google, I self diagnosed benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), and later texted my doc, who confirmed. So I got my PT sister in law on facetime and had her walk me through the positional maneuver (Called the Epley maneuver). Helped a lot. I've done it a couple of times each day and it has greatly helped. Presumably, because the canaliths in the ear have been returned to their rightful place.

On a somewhat related note, my sister came down with the same thing a few days after me. Couldn't be coincidence, could it? So I got to googling some more. Turns out that people who are susceptible to motion sickness (my sister and I were always the only two kids in our family who couldn't read while riding in the car)may have increased susceptibility to BPPV during certain changes in weather, air pressure, etc.

[falafel]

I had some of this about two years ago. Epley helped, but not completely. Gradually resolved over time. Terrible way to go through life.

I was describing the ear stones/crystals to people at work, and how the Epley maneuver supposedly help. They all made fun of me for claiming I had magic crystals in my ears.

[Jeff Lebowski]

Yep. With the help of google, I self diagnosed benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV), and later texted my doc, who confirmed. So I got my PT sister in law on facetime and had her walk me through the positional maneuver (Called the Epley maneuver). Helped a lot. I've done it a couple of times each day and it has greatly helped. Presumably, because the canaliths in the ear have been returned to their rightful place.

On a somewhat related note, my sister came down with the same thing a few days after me. Couldn't be coincidence, could it? So I got to googling some more. Turns out that people who are susceptible to motion sickness (my sister and I were always the only two kids in our family who couldn't read while riding in the car)may have increased susceptibility to BPPV during certain changes in weather, air pressure, etc.

My son says he has people come in who have suffered for years and then they walk out cured. He said it is his favorite procedure because it is so simple and works so well, but he is kind of embarrassed when he talks to people about it because it sounds like voodoo (crystals, etc).

[BigFatMeanie]

My son says he has people come in who have suffered for years and then they walk out cured. He said it is his favorite procedure because it is so simple and works so well, but he is kind of embarrassed when he talks to people about it because it sounds like voodoo (crystals, etc).

describing them as "calcium particles" would probably be less voodoo than "crystals".