Now learn about the epley maneuver.
Caloric stimulus is fun too, syringe of ice water in one ear and the pressure difference = mega drunk spins for 2 minutes
I had bppv a few months ago. It sucks but the epley stuff worked to clear it up.
Holy fuck. This sounds exactly like what happened to me a year ago. One day, it came out of nowhere and I thought I was having a stroke. I was too dizzy to do anything and thought I might actually be dying.
After a month, it got a lot better but I still constantly get bouts of it, especially when I bend over. It makes playing with my kids incredibly difficult at times.
If it turns out I have BPPV and my doctors didn’t think to test me for THE MOST COMMON CAUSE of vertigo, ima be… unsurprised 😅
I’m sure you’ve already looked up the exercise that helps reset those crystals, or at least i hope so This happens to my wife too, and it does the trick but i hear it doesn’t always work. Does that method not give you relief?
It’s pretty cool that the way you know which way down is, eyes closed, regardless of orientation, is snowglobes in your inner ears.
Proprioception. One of the many senses we have in addition to the supposed “five senses.”
Yep. It sucks. My doc joked that we all have rocks in our heads, har har.
It can sometimes be treated with a simple technique (more info below, also mentioned in the article above). When it works, it brings amazing relief.
Unfortunately it doesn’t always work. An ENT specialist can help you with it.
John’s Hopkins also discovered Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence when resolution of CT scans became high enough to detect fine cracks in bone around the tegmen and all that. SCD also worth a read. Sound doesn’t properly dissipate and instead triggers the cells in the canals leading to sound-induced vertigo and supranormal low frequency hearing (being able to hear your eyeballs scratching against your eyelids etc). Before CT scans got good people got misdiagnosed with all sorts of anxiety type disorders
Oh that sounds god awful. Poor people!
I may have experienced this. A couple years ago I was getting over a cold. I blew my nose and instantly experienced severe vertigo. The room looked like it was spinning and it felt like I was on a boat in the middle of a rough storm. I nearly fell over. It took about 15 minutes for the sensation to fully expire.
I kinda wanna have that happen
You do not. I would never wish vertigo on my worst enemy
That’s why instead of drinking milk through my mouth, I ingest it aurally.
Can’t rule out vestibular migraines. I didn’t even know I was having them until I got a really bad headache with the other symptoms. Doctor was able to confirm it as that but it took quite awhile.
