Anyone know anything about vertigo or dizziness?

[DaniDownUnder]

I woke up this morning and everytime I moved it felt like the world was spinning around me. If I sat or laid very still, I was okay, or once I got walking, as long as I kept walking, I was fine. If I changed what I was doing (going from still to moving, or consistently moving to still) the world would spin again.

All this was accompanied by a slight headache, but nothing more. It eased up this afternoon but was a bit worrisome this morning.

Anyone experience something similar? Reasons? Ways of minimizing it?

I'm just now hoping that this won't raise it's ugly head again when my new hubby and I are at WDW in July. *sigh*

TIA...

 

[Poohbear123]

Might be an inner ear infection, have a Dr. Look at it. Feel better soon.

 

[Christine]

You could just have fluid in your ears from either an allergy or sinus "stuff" going on.

On the other hand, you could have benign positional vertigo which is caused by crystals of a sort form in the inner air and coming "loose." This causes vertigo. If it continues to bother you, you can see a doctor and they can give you some exercise to do to help alleviate it.

Hopefully, though, you just have some inner ear fluid that is giving you problems.

Do you feel congested at all? Suffering from allergies?

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

You took the words right out of my mouth. It is funny you should mention this b/c I have had it a couple of times but this past week two of my co workers have come down with it and so has my dad. I know mine is begnine positional vertigo but I am wondering if there is some sort of virus etc going around. From your signature it looks like you are living in Australia and the people I know live in Massachusetts could just be a coincidense too! Then again the first time it happened to me was when I was pregnant...

 

[Christine]

You took the words right out of my mouth. It is funny you should mention this b/c I have had it a couple of times but this past week two of my co workers have come down with it and so has my dad. I know mine is begnine positional vertigo but I am wondering if there is some sort of virus etc going around. From your signature it looks like you are living in Australia and the people I know live in Massachusetts could just be a coincidense too! Then again the first time it happened to me was when I was pregnant...

One time, I got a very bad cold (it could have been a sinus infection). At the very end of it when it was just about over, I remember sitting in a rocking chair reading my then infant son a book. All of a sudden, the room started spinning. It was terrible. In the next 3 days, I had a few very bad episodes. I remember laying on the couch and the room looking like it was moving up and down.

I went to the doctor and he diagnosed me with labrynthitis which is an inner ear disorder that can occur after a cold, sinus infection, or allergies in which there might be a lot of inner ear fluid accumulating. He told me that the worst of the symptoms were at the beginning (the first episode) and that I would probably have them for up to 18 months. I did, although he was correct in that they gradually became less severe. Well after that, I had occasional vertigo episodes and saw and ENT who said it could be the benign positional vertigo. But I was not having symptoms on the visit so it was hard to diagnose.

Anyway, it could be a lot of things. Fortunately, most of them are not life threatening. But, OP, it is an awful feeling, isn't it?

 

[Bella the Ball 360]

You are right it is the worst feeling especially when you are driving and you go to turn your neck and get the tingling senation down your spine. I am very careful when I get out of bed in the moring just from the two different times I had this. One lasted 8 WEEKS! The first was just a day. It is kind of like having constant moring sickness but with no baby to show for it in the end! LOL.

 

[Mai Ku Tiki]

Aloha!

I have vertigo attacks every 6 mos or so.

I take BONINE or DRAMAMINE (for motion sickness) at the FIRST SIGN of dizziness. This DOES relieve the symptoms for me and I ALWAYS bring some to WDW for this reason.

If I'm at work, I take just half of the smallest dosage.

The downside: This stuff puts me to sleep! If I'm home, not a problem..I usually wake up with VERY reduced symptoms. But at work or driving ...use ONLY with EXTREME CAUTION!

I also agree with OP...WORST feeling in the world!

~Rose~

 

[Disney Doll]

Probably an ear infection or some fluid.

When I get that feeling, I use a decongestant for a couple of days and it goes away.

If it persists, call an ENT doctor.

 

[KerriSue]

You could be dehydrated, this can cause you to become dizzy. This happened once to me after a long plane flight from US to the UK. I was miserable. I went to the doctor and they did tests, checked the ears and all that but no ear infection. They checked my blood pressure lying down and again standing up, which there was a big change, and said that yep your dehydrated. Try drinking water, water, water.....no coffee or sodas, it might help a bit. If it keeps up, go to the doctor to get checked out for sure.

Good luck
Kerri

 

[Evil Queen]

Also, if it continues to be checked for meniere's disease. I have that.

Meniere's

 

[MinnieM3]

I have had this. First noticed when "changing sides" in bed...slipping from left to right and back again, etc. Then it would hit other times. Finally, as I was leaning over to hug one of my students I almost went over. That got me to a specialist. I chose a large ENT group and asked for a member that specialized in vertigo.

I had that positional vertigo....it had 4 initials, so it was *like* benign positional vertigo, but there was one more word. He and his nurse treated me with a series of movements on a special table and it went away immediately. I had some kind of crystals that had gotten to a place in my ear where they were not suppose to be and that's what had caused it.

I get it in a milder form now and then still, but never as bad as that first time. We did go to WDW before I got diagnosed and I did none of the spinning rides that trip.

 

[terri01p]

Oh boy are you kidding me, Let me tell you my story....this happen to me just like you said, exactly, I went though hell ...ok everyones different but mine ended up to be my thyroid. I felt like I was reading something I wrote. Keep me posted!

 

[VSL]

You could be dehydrated, this can cause you to become dizzy.

Exactly what I was going to say!

I have about 0.5-1 litre of water every night before bed (and as soon as I wake in the morning). Whenever I don't (or whenever I don't drink enough during the day) I wake up with the room spinning.

I can't help wondering if I'm diabetic (I've apparently got quite low blood sugar anyway), but the doctors say 'no'. I guess I'm just a thirsty girl.

 

[terri01p]

I'm sorry to post back to back post but I just had to add...
I was fine one day and the next I woke up with the room spinning...I went to the doctor and told him "I thought I had inner ear infection," he told me" he's see no infection but will give me something to dry up any fluid that's in my ears," 10 days later I went back ( still the same, but alittle worst off ) and was treated for vertgio....then two weeks later I had an MRI done which turned out normal....had blood work done in the mean-time of all of this and finally was treated for thyroid, slowly it all became better...I just said all this to say just have your doctor to check your thyroid from the start, to rule that out and save yourselve the hell I've been though, I could be just jumping the gun, but your story was so much like mine, I have never yet come across anyone that had the same thing. Please post back and let me know what it ended up to be ( unless it's to personal) . Thanks

 

[DaniDownUnder]

Thanks loads for all of the responses...it makes me feel a bit better knowing that others have had 'the spins' for a variety of reasons.

Just to let y'all know, I've taken your ideas/advice on board, but am in a rough position as I won't be able to do anything about it until the end of July. You see I'm leaving in 3 days time to go from Australia to the US to visit my family and do the final 'wedding organisation' things (wedding is July 4th). My fiancee/new hubby and I won't get back to Australia until the end of July.

I'll have travel insurance, but won't use it unless it is a dire emergency, because their first course of action always seems to be "ship the person back to Aus. and we'll fix it there" and THAT would definitely throw a monkey wrench into the wedding plans.

I may just foot the bill and see my mum's doctor while I'm home. Otherwise, I'll keep hydrated and try some dramamine as a stop-gap solution until I get back to Aus. again.

On the plus side, the dizziness has decreased since yesterday...tho it still raises it's head when I'm reading or bending over in anyway (which is making packing suitcases a challenge!!)

Thanks again!!