Anyone have Vertigo?

I used to have it when i moved into a 2nd floor apartment. I used to get dizzy spell and nausea. After a couple of months it went away. The docs gave me some meds but i cannot remember what it was. Hope you feel better soon :flowerforyou:

I had my first bout with vertigo in January. I fainted in the middle of the night. It was horrible. I have medicine for it. I hope to avoid it in the future

I had a horrible case of double ear infections that lasted nearly 6 months about 7 years ago and since then, have bouts with vertigo. I find that walking/running is difficult and I have to look down otherwise I lose my balance. When I'm on the treadmill, I have to usually hold lightly on with one hand or at least keep one hand touching the handles.

I've never fainted but come close when I really over exert. You can feel an "aura" out of body-ish feeling before hand...or at least I do.

Talk to your dr and/or trainer about ways to work around it when working out...they may have better ideas and may also be able to establish a heart rate you dont want to exceed in order to try and prevent a fainting spell.

Good luck.

Funny you should ask. I have just been diagnosed with vertigo this past week. Went to the ER this past Monday, following some tests and a head CT they ruled anything else more problematic. Doctor has me on a week of rest and a prescription for the vertigo. It feels awful. Going to follow the thread and see what other advice comes up.
Of course eating and exercise have been difficult. Can't do much more than walk a little bit and then sit down to let the world catch up.

I have had it for years.... Dr prescribed meclizine..which is the prescription for of Dramamine...it helps a LOT but makes me very sleepy....
I also suffer from migraines.... I think BOTH are related to stress and bad dieting...

What helps is for me to lay down in a dark, quiet room and to drink lots of cold water...

is a type of dizziness, where there is a feeling of motion when one is stationary.[2] The symptoms are due to a dysfunction of the vestibular system in the inner ear.[2] It is often associated with nausea and vomiting as well as difficulties standing or walking.

The most common causes are benign paroxysmal positional vertigo and vestibular migraine while less common causes include Ménière's disease and vestibular neuritis.[2] Excessive consumption of ethanol (alcoholic beverages) can also cause notorious symptoms of vertigo. (For more information see Short term effects of alcohol). Repetitive spinning, as in familiar childhood games, can induce short-lived vertigo by disrupting the inertia of the fluid in the vestibular system.

This is from wiki, I been living with this for about 4 years now and the only thing I have trouble with is dizziness sometimes when I close my eyes. My symptoms normaly don't show/slight when performing normaly during the day and night. When performing task that push smy heart rate to near its max(ie runnng, gym) I tend to lose minor blaence for a couple of seconds untill I breath at a normal pace then the symptoms eather go to normal/ or slowly go away in time ie(10 mins). Mine is caused by having damaged vestibulars tubes in both ears . Hops this help and sorry about the spelling.

I spent all of last year suffering from recurrent episodes of vertigo, lasting from a few hours to days at a time. Every two to six weeks, I would find the room spinning every time I rolled over in bed. The symptoms could be eased by taking vallium and anti nausea pills (because mine would send me into violent vomiting spells). My last episode was January 12th. And although I was sent to an ENT to have a check for Meniere’s Disease (common culprit of longterm or recurrent vertigo), the real culprit turned out to be high blood pressure and sodium spikes in my diet. I was also given a CT scan to make sure I didn’t have a bleed or other brain injury that was causing the vertigo. Now I watch my sodium intake and try to keep it under 1500 mg a day and monitor my blood pressure carefully. I have not had an episode since January, which is the longest I have gone since March of last year.

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I have also long been a migraine sufferer. But have not had a regular migraine in a few years, now. The vertigo may also be the way that experience migraines, now, but we can’t be sure. But, the blood pressure spikes put pressure on all veins, including the small ones in the brain, so keeping the blood pressure in check may really be preventing me from having migraines, which in my case has become episodic vertigo.

I had one vertigo atttack about 6 months ago but haven't had one since- I actually have no idea why but maybe check if its hereditary, or stress-induced, or hormonal, or related to inner-ear problems?

Hope that helps- good luck!!!

I had my first spell a week ago on Sunday. I woke up so sick I was miserable. I was on the couch all day that day. I was able to work every day the week following, but I was really dizzy for two or three mornings. I tried to work out Saturday afternoon, and I got down on the floor to do chest flies and here it came again. I am wondering if I will ever be able to run or lift weights again. I did go to the dr. on Friday. He gave me antivert and sudafed and that was it. The antivert made me very sleepy.

I was diagnosed with vertigo today after dr ruled out low blood pressure, iron and blood sugar, as well as thyroid and ear problems. It's really getting me down as I have been been game to go out on my bicycle alone in case I have an attack and my husband doesn't ride as far or as fast as me.

I am on tabs to deal with it but they have not been terribly effective as yet - started them a week ago to deal with the dizziness while waiting for other test results.

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