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vestibular issues (dizziness?)

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  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    klkarlen wrote: »
    tigerblue wrote: »
    I get it occaisionally. I thought it was more age than hormones. It hits out of the blue for me, with no warning and doesn't last more than a few seconds at a time. The first time it happened I thought I was having a stroke or something.

    I called the EMT's this morning because of my first and hopefully worst case of vertigo ever, complete with spinning room, sweating, chills, nausea. . . it was horrendous. And I don't have anyone that can drive me to an ER - on the ambulance I went. 5 hours later, and a full boat of expensive tests later, diagnosis was BPPV - and an Rx for anti-nausea meds, that make me bone tired.

    Oh the joys of old age.
    BPPV is the default diagnosis, yes. I was also prescribed the anti nausea meds, but I didn't take them (except for insomnia) as they didn't really help.

    So sorry you had that experience. It can be very frightening.
  • Kimberly_Harper
    Kimberly_Harper Posts: 409 Member
    I guess for any strange thing I experience for the next five years, I'll just come to this forum first. So far, they're all here. Thanks again Sabine! haha
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Kimberly_Harper wrote: »
    I guess for any strange thing I experience for the next five years, I'll just come to this forum first. So far, they're all here. Thanks again Sabine! haha

    smiles. It's on the list of 34 symptoms of menopause. But GAH, I wish my female relatives or friends had told me about this weird feeling.
  • Gosser
    Gosser Posts: 178 Member
    I had to have three months off work because the world was going round and I couldn't fix on anything.

    It is only now, a year later that I realize it was all part of the joy of peri-menopause.

    Touch wood, it hasn't happened a second time. At least I'll know it isn't something dreadful if it does, last time I was imagining all sorts of deathly outcomes to the MRIs, xrays and such. Why they didn't tell me it could just be my hormones I don't know, would have saved me a lot of worry.
  • Sabine_Stroehm
    Sabine_Stroehm Posts: 19,263 Member
    Gosser wrote: »
    I had to have three months off work because the world was going round and I couldn't fix on anything.

    It is only now, a year later that I realize it was all part of the joy of peri-menopause.

    Touch wood, it hasn't happened a second time. At least I'll know it isn't something dreadful if it does, last time I was imagining all sorts of deathly outcomes to the MRIs, xrays and such. Why they didn't tell me it could just be my hormones I don't know, would have saved me a lot of worry.

    If only they'd tell us that!!
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