What causes your vertigo and does anything help it go away?

[Allison]

I have battled this off and on for years. Last year it lasted for several months and I had all sorts of tests (MRI, blood tests, saw a neurologist). The best they could tell me was the benign positional vertigo. My chiropractor showed me an exercise to do for it.

In the past I have been on meclazine but it just wiped me out. The OTC form does work better for me. My neurologist also gave me diazepam which is for anxiety but in low doses helps dizziness.

 

[staci]

I see a couple of you mentioning meclazine. Is this something you take all the time as a precautionary thing, or just when you feel a spell coming on?

 

[Allison]

I see a couple of you mentioning meclazine. Is this something you take all the time as a precautionary thing, or just when you feel a spell coming on?

When I feel it coming on.

 

[PrincessKitty]

Many of them played the 'you must be stressed' card on me, but I am really a pretty relaxed person and I knew I wasnt making it up.

Yes, "You must be stressed" can be translated as "we don't know what the heck is wrong with you."

I learned about the condition when I did an internship in Brain Injury in a rehab hospital in the 90s. It had long been thought that dizziness in brain-injured people was due to the brain injury, and we were learning that it was often actually due to these crystals getting lodged in the wrong place during the trauma to the head!

A co-worker's mom was guided through these positions twice, and never had another problem with dizziness. here's hoping your dizziness is as easy to cure!

 

[Allison]

I will definitely check out that website to see the different movements I should do, thank you!

Again, thank you so much! I spent a good 4 months in 2002 going back and forth between specialists and my regular doctor, and no one could give me any answers to anything. Many of them played the 'you must be stressed' card on me, but I am really a pretty relaxed person and I knew I wasnt making it up.

Thanks again!

I looked at the exercise for at home and it is the same one my chiropractor showed me.

Your experience sounds like mine. Going from family doctor to a specialist and everyone just telling me how you have too much stress in your life and noone able to give me any answers. It was so frustrating because it's so debilitating and you just want some help.