Posted: 9/10/2011 4:32:04 AM EDT
I have come to the conclusion, after 42 total hours in the hospital on two occasions this month, 2 cat scans, 2 MRIs and 2 potassium drips that severe vertigo sucks.
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I've had a few attacks over the years. They do suck.
The first time I was so nauseated I was incapicated. I couldn't stand or even sit up. Lsted for hours. The other times haven't been quite as severe. Luckily, it's been awhile since I've had any problems with it. The first time, when the room was spinning, I remember thinking "This is just like in the movies when they tilt the camera to show the guy is drunk." |
| Had it a few years ago and missed three weeks of work. Took all the same tests as you and was told all was ok but they thought it was allergies. I thought they were joking. Come to find out, I was allergic to dust. Ripped out my old carpet and the symptoms disappeared. Good Luck |
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I hear ya brother, my wife suffers from it on a somewhat regular basis. At least three times now in the past few years.
Find a good doctor who knows the epley maneuver and other new techniques and has the correct head gear, cameras and monitoring equipment and sometimes the doc can get you fixed up in 30 minutes or so. Sometimes it works the first time or after the first few attempts and you're good to go right out of the docs office. Sometimes it doesn't work and you have to repeat the process at home using clear, concise directions from the doc with diagrams and videos. Sometimes it doesn't work at all and the damn little crystals or whatever they are have to move back into the correct positions by themselves and that can takes weeks or longer. First time the wife had it the doc fixed her up before we left the office. Second time, no luck at the doc's office and we had to follow his instructions verbatim and finally got her fixed up at home after a day or so. Third time nothing worked and it had to fix itself. NOTE - Be aware performing any manuever untrained or in the wrong manner can make things worse. You can actually make the symptoms worse, or worse yet, if you're initially only having a problem with one ear, you can cause the damn little things to move wrong out of the correct position in the good ear and then have problems with both ears. That sux. EDIT - Forgot to add, having the doc hook my wife up to the head gear and watch her eye movements after he turned her every which way was freaky. Her eyes would twitch back and forth (symptom of the spinning room effect and your body/brain/eyes trying to correct your balance) real fast side to side. It was really weird to see that and there's no way a person could fake that involuntary movement so quickly with their eyes. The head gear has night vision equipment in it and the patient is in total darkness in the head gear but the doc and visitor (myself in this case) can see on the TV screen her reactions to his movements. Weird shit. Quoted:
I have come to the conclusion, after 42 total hours in the hospital on two occasions this month, 2 cat scans, 2 MRIs and 2 potassium drips that severe vertigo sucks.
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Wife's inner ear on one side 'died' likely due to side effects of anestheia during a minor surgery. Fetal postion, projectile vomiting...when she tried to open her eyes she described the room spinning very fast....ugh....took a couple weeks to even begin to sort itself out. Her good ear, when used in conjunction with her vision, finally began to compensate for the loss.
Fucked up shit |