I've had two doses of vertigo, room spinning, nausea, can't function... Comes out of no where, horrible feeling.

For certain types of vertigo there's an exercise of moving your head a certain way , supposedly there can be crystals in the inner ear that can cause the symptoms, do the exercise and you move the crystals where they no longer bother you....

First problem over 20 years ago was a crystal. ENT has me do exercises and problem went away. About 6 years ago similar problem popped up. Went to PT business and got more head exercises. As GCS says, crystal is supposed to get back where is belongs. First try of head exercise sent me almost into oblivion. Vertigo, spinning, barely got to the bathroom to puke and then sit down for a no. 2! Spent the next 2 days on the couch mostly on my right side. Turning to the left brought more problems.
Had occaisional problems after that. Tried another ENT. Did hearing checks first. Got to a check where the girl has you on your back, cover your eyes and blow into into your ear. Supposed to make you slightly dizzy but end when pressure quits. Right ear worked fine. Left ear sent me right back into oblivion. Barely could walk. Had to get to the bathroom for another #2. Had to get the wife to pick me up as no way I could drive. As soon as the car moved forward after I was seated, puked all over the dash and floor!!. ENT wanted me to do a MRI on my head. First try got me dizzy and couldn't do it. Next try a valium settled me enough to allow the shoot. Didn't come up with anything.
As long as I don't tilt my head back too far or lay on my left side I'm OK. A few other positions can cause problems too. If I work underneath anything I have to have a pillow or something to keep my head raised somewhat. Same thing at the dentist visits. Sleeping I also keep my head slightly tilted forward or I lay on my right side. Don't know exactly what's wrong with me. Interesting to read all the others having problems. I'm almost 66. We just weren't meant to live this long!! Hahaha!

Never got nauseous but I compare it to when you have flu and stand up to fast, up down right left stopping going all impacted my balance. Best thing was when my chiropractor was able to adjust my neck to the left it took almost a year to get it to pop. That felt like it cracked from the base of my neck to my tail my foot came off the table great relief after that.

I have it about once a year. I wash my ears out with peroxide. The boiling out the wax can be intimidating. Yesterday I got up and fell twice. I was planning on going shopping 30 mi away. I washed my ears out and got to feeling better and took the truck on the way shopping. We had 5 inches of rain and when I got about a mile from the house there was a field flooded and waves was blowing and I looked at it and was glad I was on a country road. I turned around and came home and washed my ears out again and took a dose of Meclizine, any of that motion sickness stuff seems to work, that was just what I had. Got up this morning and safely went to church. If you don't get better quickly, you might want the opinion of a professional. Hope you get well, that is misery.

I can't go on rides at a fair. They all make me dizzy and disoriented. Kind of like when we were kids. You'd put your head on a the end of a baseball bat and spin around a number of times. Some kids would stumble around for 30 seconds or so. Not me. I'd stumble around sometimes for 5 minutes before I'd be back to normal.

FWIW2U! There's been a commercial on TV for a gadget called "WOOSH" basically a handheld water pump to clear ear wax, might want to check it out.

Lay on the edge of the bed with your head hanging off turn it one way until you feel like puking then the other way and slowly sit up. You probably will puke shortly after and then fall asleep for a while. Hopefully when you wake up it’s better. That’s what I have to do.

Everyone is different , chemically , our bodies change every 7 years from what I've been told.
Some people can do certain things or ingest certain things.
Others can't .
Best bet is go to a specialist , have them check you out.

Good informative thread.

Google : Epley exercise for vertigo. :-)

My wife had it and fell,broke her hip because of her fall.

My wife had it bad once, and a few light episodes, motion sickness meds help
She had to lay curled up in one position on one side to stop the room from spinning.
Dr said if you can't find a good spot like that, then it could be a tumer, not vertigo.
She got so dizzy, she puked everytime she tried to move.

Not fun when you get it

A friend of mine had one of those inversion tables where you hang upside down. I tried it for about 5 seconds and came close to passing out.

Google "canalith repositioning maneuvers" and do the exercise. If it is gonna work for you, it'll work pretty quickly.

I had severe headaches for a couple years.
Worked trough them , until it caused dizziness , and couldn't be up a latter or on a roof , without getting dizzy.
Went to many Drs , AND PAIN SPECIALISTS. !
They kept giving me meds that IMHO caused more problems.
One time when the nurse checked my blood pressure , and said it's perfect , I told her that I'm feeling like pressure in my head.
I asked her to check the other arm ( just on a whim ) and it was 50 or more higher than my left arm.
Wound up in the hospital a few weeks later , for stints in my Carotid artery .
Had a blockage of 85 %.
Strangest thing the cardiologist Dr had ever seen.
Low cholesterol , but a flap of lining in my artery , was flapping like seaweed in a river.
I watched as he showed me , and put the stints in through my left arm.
Haven't tried getting up on a roof , but the headaches , are gone.

Something to think about , have the nurse check both arms.

13 years ago I was diagnosed with Virtigo. Had 2-3 really bad spells where I had total body sweat and could not stand or walk. Found out I lost 50% of my balance ability in my right ear, mostly due to really bad ear infections when a youth and teenager. Used my eyesight to make up for the loss. I do not take any meds and it is not the crystals out of line type, blut I do a group of balance related excerises every day and that keeps the acute attacks at bay. Walking at night in the dark is a challenge and so is using a headlamp or flashlight.

Bryce

I suggest Dr. Ross Hauser on u-tube. Vagus Nerve /Cervical Instability. He wears some funky glasses but he just may answer some of your questions.