Vertigo

Any of you guys ever wake up unable to walk on your own and everything spinning around? Diagnosed as vertigo. This has happened twice now. What is treatment?

On and off for 20+ years. Get it about once a year. Usually starts when in bed, when I turn my head while looking at something else. Working flat on my back ( under a vehicle ) can also cause trouble.

GV motion sickness tablet
I had Vertigo for 48 years until I was diagnosed and found this.

I take one at bedtime and haven't had vertigo for 10 years now.
It's at Wal mart yellow label on small white bottle. Over the counter...but ask the pharmacy if you cannot see it.

Guy at work developed vertigo after both vaccination for and infection by covid. Doctor told him the infection caused his vertigo.

My wife takes Antivert or that generic mentioned above.

This x2! You gotta find out if there's an underlying problem first.

Had this a couple years ago Dr ordered all kinds of expensive tests a MRI, throat ultrasound they found nothing. So I went to my chiropractor and she adjusted my neck and back never felt better.

Injured my neck in combat training at the Academy 20 years ago it stoved up and got stiffer over time turning my head to the left was a challenge. Along with other injuries accumulated in life working through the pain was a daily task the adjustments were amazing in reducing that pain.

Now everything is back to normal vs being dizzy getting out of bed or getting out of my chair or walking and stopping.

Had it off and on for several years. Dr’s. Did all kind of test couldn’t figure out what what caused it. Went to chiropractor, helped a little. For me every time I have a reoccurrence it is less severe. Last time was last Oct. lasted about 2 days. I take Dramamine when I get it.

It is an Inner Ear imbalance

Every now and then I get those symptoms. Probably from the discharge of various gases I am exposed to every day in our buildings.

Thank you all for the replies. I did have an ear infection a month or so ago. If it came on while out trapping I’d have to be rescued. I couldn’t walk on my own all day. Walking like an old man in a nursing home today. I walked five miles a day from June to November, about every day, and was getting ready to start back now that season is over.

My wife had it maybe not as bad as your case. Dr sent her to a special physical therapist that she saw couple times a week and gave her homework. She said she could feel the progress. She still does the exercises about once a week.

I had vertigo from an ear infection…one of the worst feelings I’ve ever had. It happen while I was on the road. The bouncing up and down on the air seat was unbelievable and I started puking in short order. Traffic was heavy and I was unable to pull over. I was close to the end of the route and white knuckled it the rest of the way. When I got out of the truck I couldn’t walk straight. Imagine the drunkest you’ve ever been, double it and then try to walk straight! It took two days before I could get out of bed!

Ran into a lady at a casino near the end of the pandemic she had Covid and she was dizzy for 2 months and lost her ability to focus and even do simple math problems. The sad part was it cost her her job she was a accountant, I had the exact same issues but have come a long way since then once my neck got freed up.

So Dr. and after test was determined that I had injured my neck being in several accidents over the years being older was told surgery MIGHT help might not. When I do a lot of lifting or such the pain starts and I can be down for hours or days. But sooner or later it passes and I start over. Is what it is.

Same here it’s going to happen but life goes on so you just get through it and hope for the best.

I’ve been wresting a giant oak for firewood last little bit. All I can do to roll one 18 inch cut up on the splitter. Maybe that helped bring it on. It’s hard to believe how useless you can become with something like that. I feel for people that never get away from it or have a good healthy day.

stopped drinking alcohol heavily....

JK, hope things get better for you soon.

Many different things it could be. Don’t mess around go see an ENT. I played around with similar symptoms for over a year then one day I figured out I couldn’t hear out of my right ear. Long story short I ended up getting an MRI and had a tumor touching my brain called an acoustic neuroma. 13 hours of surgery permanent loss of all hearing from my right ear and lost the balance nerve for the right side of my body. My Turkey hunting sucks now but at least I can still trap . At least I am upright and able to do most things.

Was sitting in the breakroom at work late January this year, been there almost an hour, went to turn my head and the room moved, turn it the other way and it moved that way, knew right away I could not stand up to walk out of there !

Never had this feeling all my life, got home with my son driving me home and the boss following to get him back to work, could not walk with out help, laid down on the bed and the room twirled like a tornado, was the worst feeling in the world I have ever experienced.
Finally had enough and went to the emergency med clinic close by, the doc took one look in my ears and told me my right ear had a massive blockage in it putting pressure on my ear drum, which was likely the problem putting more pressure on inner ear.

They put in ear drops to dissolve the wax blockage, then proceed to carve it up and suck it out, when ever he got close to my ear drum, a new party started, could not tell if the clean up was worse than the vertigo.

After doing what he could do, he sent me to an ENT, who asked if I had Covid at any time, told him the company provided weekly testing and my last test was positive, but that the second better test said negative, he gave me more drops for a week and I went back after having them and he finished cleaning up the ear with his tooling, all clear and no more vertigo !!

Happy camper since then he advised me use the drops which was just two drops once a week for a couple months then gently swap the ear with a swab, said as long as I kept the canals clean, would probably be fine, he mentioned some seem to have the problem as a Covid element, while others just don't clean the ears correctly, I never stick anything in my ears to clean them, so I now have a new cleaning ritual, would rather do this gently than go all that I did before though !

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.

I have had it and so has the horse I rode in on!

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.

Only had it once, diving at 80'. Probably shouldn't have been diving that day, sinuses all stuffed up. Luckily had my partner and my wits to follow my bubbles up to the surface. Don't know which was worse, vertigo down under or stuck on the deck of the dive boat in 15' rollers the rest of the day.