Vertigo- having serious episode. Anyone else have this?

My wife gets these vertigo attacks from time to time. 
Not saying yours is related, but here's what helps her.


www.hopkinsmedicine.org/health/treatment-tests-and-therapies/home-epley-maneuver

Had a diagnosis of vertigo but your symptoms sound worse (didn't have nausea). Yeah, get checked out to rule out anything else. Its weird, in a younger day I never heard much about vertigo. A work mate described his incident, was put through a battery of tests and got a diagnosis of vertigo. Maybe a few month later I had my incident. Got out of bed and was pulling a tee shirt over my head and fell over into the closet. Years later we thought my mom had a stroke (she had a multitude of other health problems), trip via ambulance to the ER. Vertigo. Years after that my wife was getting up from a chair and suddenly blurted "oh my god, call 911..." 2 intense blasts of dizziness. We rationalized based on experience it was vertigo but I took her to the ER anyways. My diagnosis was correct. Weird how this hit my little circle.

what you have described is about what i experienced a couple of years ago. my vision looked like the vertical hold had broken and everything was flipping while tilted. i had just sat in the car and had leaned over to get something from the glove box. my world went to heck! i couldn't stand, walk, and barely crawl. i slid out of the car seat onto the drive and lay there puking for the next 10 minutes or so.

my wife found me and helped me crawl/walk to the deck in the shade. it took about an hour to pass. then i had 2 more in the next 24 hours.

i had NO idea what it was but started reading and the first thing that rang my alarm was blood pressure. i have had periods in my life when BP is out the roof... i don't know if it's stress or what... but i checked mine and if i had been at the Dr, they would have sent me to ER immediately!

i started with aspirin and l'arginine (which i had learned helps BP) and i saw the pressure start going down, i went to Dr and he prescribed meds and my BP is normal now (with meds). No more vertigo since.

a friend of my wife is going thru therapy for a vertigo episode she had last month. like a bolt from the sky, she was standing normally, bent over to pick up something and when she straightened, it hit. her Dr thought it was infection but turned out not to be... they just don't know yet what it was.

there are several websites with routines you can do to reset your horizontal hold. one i liked involved laying on the floor and holding your head sideways for a few minutes, raising your head in a specific patter and laying it down facing the other side.

i surely pray it NEVER shows up again and ESPECIALLY if i'm driving!

good luck on this... i know how scary it is.

I had it several years ago and it is no joke. Had to lean against a wall to keep from falling over. Nauseated, too.

It was an inner ear thing that resulted from me cleaning a silk-screen with a pressure nozzle in a college art class. I was in a cloud of mist that included minute particles of paint, and I was breathing it. The instructor told me I needed to wear a mask, but I apparently misses that bit if info. Two weeks later I had vertigo.

The doc did an MRI, which showed a mass in my sinus cavity. We coaxed it out and it was a clot of phlegm, blood and hardened paint. Within days my balance returned.

Yes, I had a nasty bout of dizziness about 6 years ago, messed up my hearing too. I had various scans and there was nothing suspicious, it got ascribed to a type of blocked inner ear / labyrinthitis, Menieres Syndrome. It’s thought to be due to crystals forming in the inner ear pipework. Cutting right back on dietary salt (I had very little anyway), a strong course of Betahistine, and then an ongoing background maintenance of it eventually got rid and keeps it at bay.

I’m glad I am not the only one. I went to the urgent care and they gave me a prescription for meclezine and an anti nausea med . Since I’ve had this episode before he thinks it will resolve its self .I did the epley movement and will do it again tomorrow’if need be. Also I was told to go to the ER if things don’t improve. I also wanted to make sure I didn’t have an ear infection , which I don’t.

I was also going to suggest trying the Epley manuever. Great non-invasive way to eliminate (or find) a possible cause. Glad that it seems to have worked for you and that there was nothing more serious going on.

I had it several years ago due to a sinus infection. Couldn't walk in a straight line and had to keep my eyes closed to avoid nausea when my wife took me to get treated. They told me to take meclizine, drink real ginger ale or ginger beer to settle the stomach (Bundaberg is very good) and stay in bed for 2 or 3 days. Fortunately, that was a weekend with lots of football to watch when I started feeling better.

No doctor (or Physical Therapist), here, but seems I was told that the Epley manuever could be repeated, as needed. First time I had it done I was "ok" after having it done a couple of times within a day.

The last time it happened, I followed the directions I had been given and it went away after one try.  Bestof luck. The vertigo thing can be very disconcerting ...I know.

Sounds as if the med center at your college was about like the one where I went. Mine would prescribe "tetracycline" for everything. I never had to test it but I'm pretty sure I could have gone there with a broken leg and been prescribed tetracycline!!

On a more serious note ...I never knew it was this common, either.The physical therapist who first did the Epley manuever when I had vertigo said it usually only occurs after a fall or a jolt of some kind. But, he also said that he'd woken up with it one day (no falls, etc involved) and "treated" himself because he knew exactly what is was. When he treated me, the first thing he did was look into my eyes and he could tell by the erratic eye movements what the problem was.