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Originally posted by double bogey View PostI have it if I lay on my back or look up and attempt to focus on anything. Like working under a car. Tried to change a starter on my wife's car, threw up 3 times to get it out. Called a buddy to help get it back in. Had head ct's as part of cancer follow up , didn't find anything. Seems like it got worse when I started cholesterol meds. Don't take them anymore, but vertigo still there. Mom had it sometimes also.
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Originally posted by double bogey View PostI have it if I lay on my back or look up and attempt to focus on anything. Like working under a car. Tried to change a starter on my wife's car, threw up 3 times to get it out. Called a buddy to help get it back in. Had head ct's as part of cancer follow up , didn't find anything. Seems like it got worse when I started cholesterol meds. Don't take them anymore, but vertigo still there. Mom had it sometimes also.
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I have always been susceptible to motion sickness. As a child I couldn't go 50 miles without pulling over and throwing up. I do ok as an adult if I ride in the front seat, and driving. I do fine on lakes, but get seasick offshore, really messes me up, as I love to fish. A couple of years ago at Ft. Lauderdale, got sick within sight of the shoreline. As I would get nauseated, I could focus on the shore and get straight, but had to go inside to the restroom, and couldn't recover. Several years ago we did a weeklong cruise, was half nauseated the whole trip, fine by me, just an expensive boat ride anyway.
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All of these episodes sound so familiar, bouncing off the wall like I was drunk, going to the ER to be told that I wasn't going to die after all. I keep an emergency supply of an over the counter drug called, "AntiVert" which is the generic for Meclizine, handy whenever I'm going to be away from home for an extended period. The drug isn't going to cure Vertigo, but it can ease the symptoms. I can always feel it when an episode is coming on, so I try not to do anything that would make things worse.
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I deal with it as well. I really have to be careful when I'm on a ladder and looking up. When it hits, I just grab the ladder and hold on. If you look at some ones eyes during an attack, their eye move real fast side to side.
I went to the ENT center in The Woodlands and the Dr. did the "rolling of the head thing" and that fixed most of it. I didn't like all the side effects of the drugs. I have them but don't take them.
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Originally posted by double bogey View PostI have always been susceptible to motion sickness. As a child I couldn't go 50 miles without pulling over and throwing up. I do ok as an adult if I ride in the front seat, and driving. I do fine on lakes, but get seasick offshore, really messes me up, as I love to fish. A couple of years ago at Ft. Lauderdale, got sick within sight of the shoreline. As I would get nauseated, I could focus on the shore and get straight, but had to go inside to the restroom, and couldn't recover. Several years ago we did a weeklong cruise, was half nauseated the whole trip, fine by me, just an expensive boat ride anyway.
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Originally posted by brokeno View PostWife had it really bad several years ago. Physical therapist has some exercises to realign the crystals in the inner ear. When she feels it coming on she does those exercises and good to go.
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Called benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. Doesn’t realign the crystals as noted when an epley maneuver is performed in the office, just takes the calcium carbonate crystals that are free floating and flushes them out into the utricle of the labyrinthine system that regulates balance where they desolve. Goggle BPPV. Vertigo is a symptom not an etiology.
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Originally posted by tbgascorer View PostVestibular disorder here. Much of the same. Therapy for 6 weeks helped. You learn to live with it unfortunately. It's debilitating at times.
I had the same kind of onset as you did. Came out of nowhere, knocked me on my @ss and never fully went away....... that was 20 years ago. So the good news is your brain will
e v e n t u a l l y ...... learn to adapt to your episodes (not near as severe as the onset episode)... I would say I have a little 2 or 3 second dizzy blip everyday. I have taken many kinds of meds to try and help, none really work and no doctor will ever give you a good answer.
MRI's, ENT's, Neurologists and lots of money later nothing has changed.
Good Luck man. PM me if you want my # and we can talk about it.
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