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Gents, all....Thanks for the help. Much appreciated! I’m going to put the salt shaker down. Do my weird fuucking exercises 3 times a day and do some serious praying this stops...If no improvements by Monday. I’m off to an ENT for more testing. Again, thanks...Except for Furbarski and his Yosemite Pic....You’re still a Dick! But Funny as Hell. 😎

i get it once in a while. i learned what triggers it and avoid sleeping with my head lower than my feet, quick head turns and looking straight up. it does suck. i stagger like a drunk when it hits me.

Low dose Valium can help. I had it once and it was bad. Puked for hours.

That's terrible.

Only when I have Jack and Coke!


Hope it goes away for you!!!

I'll let you know when the room stops spinning!

(Never had it, but hope you can kick it to the curb. Let me check my links, as I remember something I read about treatment.)

https://newatlas.com/equivert-vertigo-headphones/53631/

https://newatlas.com/cochlear-implant-alleviates-vertigo/16710/


These might help.

Wow, that's terrible...life can change overnight.

I had experienced vertigo many years ago, sometimes nausea, dizziness, and the worst was when my world became a spinning buzzsaw that lasted a long time.
I went to the clinic several times for another 'Eply Maneuver' reset - and the last time a technician said I could do it myself, and he showed me how.

There was no internet then. Now just google 'Eply Maneuver self treatment'. There are many sites and videos - that are informative and helpful
explaining the nature and seriousness of each of the types of vertigo, and the necessity of a correct diagnosis.

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Good luck to you!

I had a case of it a few years ago. Could NOT walk without pitching sideways or corkscrewing to the ground. My family Doc sent me to a balance specialist. I went in there expecting to hear about calcium otoliths and the Eply Maneuver. Nope. He diagnosed it as a pinched nerve in my neck. He did a few chiropractor-like adjustments, and immediately I was 90% better. Within a day or so, it was all gone.

So it isn't always an ear problem at all. But it takes a specialist to know for sure.

mine too was pitched nerve in neck.fell off railroad bridge at work backwards loading on my neck.had it off and on for about year.after surgury it got better but stiil took time for nerves to settle down.i have to watch if i bend backwards fast yet.

Just hope you do not have Meniere's, it is a Bi**h.. Tinnitus in left ear, about deaf in that ear as well. It will go into remission, took me about 12 years. Finally can drink coffee and eat something that is salty again. No cure and they don't know why it happens. A fluid imbalance in the inner ear. I have tubes in both, have had them for years. It helped but, when a "event" happens I was done for at least 6 hours. Could not function, walk etc. The only way is to cut or stop the nerve function on the ear that is effected. Hearing loss in that ear is Permanente. It can transfer to the other ear as well. I'll say a prayer.

I feel your pain on this one. Have had boughts of it for the past year and a half. Sometimes it hits suddenly and other times I can feel it coming on. I’ve had it last for anywhere from 2-10 hours. I don’t know what’s worse the spinning or the vomiting. When you dry heave for hours at a time it’s not pleasant. I’m not sure if the rest of you get this after effect but after a bad instance I’m wiped out for a couple days as if I’ve had the flu or something.

I try to stay hydrated, avoid alcohol and caffeine to a reasonable degree and take allergy meds daily to prevent congestion that can add to the issue. I am supposed to get a brain MRI and some other tests done but have been putting it off as I know that it is going to cost a $hitload even w/ insurance. Sad that you have to be poor in order to get healthcare and not be raped for it.

On the bright side I veered away from my original career choice of being an airline pilot - I’d be totally screwed right now if I’d stayed on that path.

Kell: guess you owe me for the “Flute and Bandcamp” suggestion. Thx 4 the links..😎

Appreciate that smithrjd 😎

Yep I had it a few years ago, scared the crap outa me just like where you're at right now.


went to the ER, they couldn't do squat for me. went ENT, went had two MRI's blah, blah, blah, didn't do me any good, but tincture of time???? that worked the ringing persisted for awhile and my hearing isn't as good out of the one ear, but nothing of the magnitude others have expressed.


haven't had another spell since then (thank God) once in awhile if I get up too fast get a lil dizzy, but that's always been there, just a lil more anxious now when it happens, but thankfully mine just went away and got better on its own. Hope yours does too.


Not sure I'm equipped to deal living with Meniers. Best of luck to you, it was a very disconcerting period in my life. Know what you're going through and it SUCKS

My wife has Meniere’s also. Used to have pretty severe seizures until she got it diagnosed and now watches her sodium intake like she watches my beer intake.

What sucks is that it is different than vertigo - with vertigo you need to lay down. With her Meniere’s she can’t lay down. Has to sit up at all times, she ends up sleeping on the cpuch in a sitting up position. She also has hearing damage but is very good at reading lips. Which our teenagers don’t like....

I have permanent damage to my inner ear, optic nerve and hearing due to virus. I therefore have permanent, mild vertigo-type symptoms and balance challenges. Because of physiological changes within my inner ear, my sight and my hearing my brain has had to "re-learn" those signals sent from those sensory organs. Balance is the brain processing complex signals from your vestibular system within your inner ear (fluid moving within and being felt by small hairs) sight, your feet sensing the ground and even hearing. Brain plasticity assists the brains relearning of these new/different signals to restore balance. It came very sudden and I was useless for a few weeks having to stay in bed for a couple days because I could not walk but it slowly got better and I returned to my office-type work within a few weeks . The docs said I would show steady but slowing improvement for about 18-24 months at which time I'd probably reach peak recovery.

That was true and I have plateaued and lead a very normal life except I can not catch a thrown ball if I am also moving.... too complex for the brain to process. Hiking on irregular surfaces such as in the mountains requires that I keep my head as steady as possible gazing ahead to limit movement and required balance-processing. Running results in everything moving around so I do that at night. In most all other aspects of life my brain has relearned the balancing process. I also can't look up and gaze at the sky without a steady... too few visual cues to help balance.

Fortunately I was not a pilot or pro athlete or in a very active, physical profession. The only real evidence others see is I occasionally brush/run into a door jamb.

I suspect it is good for some sort of disability. If a veteran I would start there. My dear Father, a Korean war vet, wasn't even asking when they offered the deal.

Get an MRI to rule out an Acoustic Neuroma tumor....that's what I had. They're rare as hen's teeth but they are out there. I had to retire from my law enforcement job at 44 years old. AN's are benign 99% of the time but getting them out of one's head is the hard part.

An AN tumor grows on the 8th nerve (hearing and balance). Removal is considered brain surgery.

Sometimes early detection can save one's hearing in the affected ear.

Dan

Wrong.

My wife has full blown Meniers, she has a letter from one of the countries top expert Nuerotologist that specializes in Meniers and she was denied disability twice.

Before she became sick she was an R.N. for over 30yrs. she lost her job due to the illness, lost her life saving paying for healthcare, when she was dismissed for being ill she also lost her health insurance.

I married her after she was diagnosed, otherwise she would be sick and homeless.

She couldn't even qualify for unemployment.

The system is a joke, they happily took 15% of her earnings for over 30yrs.

Seems the system only has money for losers scaming the system.