Comments on: My first experience with severe vertigo. http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/ My experiences with vertigo, disequilibrium, balance, dizziness and anxiety. Sun, 05 Feb 2012 03:56:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= By: jaq http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-27994 jaq Thu, 02 Feb 2012 18:50:27 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-27994 I recently got into a car crash on Dec 6th 2011. It was a Week exactly before I was supposed to get married, and it caused a huge stress to me and my family. I suffered a laceraion on my head, lacerates liver, and a high ankle sprain with a fractured fibula. After about a week in the hospital, I started feeling really dizzy. I got really nauseous but only have. Thrown up once. The dizziness is really bad some days and OK the rest, and I've been keeping a journal of how I feel daily. I've had a brain CT, MRI, both coming back negative. My GP just says its the trauma from my accident, but it should have been getting better by now right? I recently got into a car crash on Dec 6th 2011. It was a Week exactly before I was supposed to get married, and it caused a huge stress to me and my family. I suffered a laceraion on my head, lacerates liver, and a high ankle sprain with a fractured fibula. After about a week in the hospital, I started feeling really dizzy. I got really nauseous but only have. Thrown up once. The dizziness is really bad some days and OK the rest, and I’ve been keeping a journal of how I feel daily. I’ve had a brain CT, MRI, both coming back negative. My GP just says its the trauma from my accident, but it should have been getting better by now right?

]]> By: Hot Mess http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-27190 Hot Mess Wed, 25 Jan 2012 18:09:54 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-27190 I just had this happen to me also. I was at work and it came on hard and fast . Major spinning and horrible vomiting.I had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance . They gave me anti nausea meds and a med to slow down the spinning. It does work but makes me very tired. It is an amazing and scary thing to go thru. I just had this happen to me also. I was at work and it came on hard and fast . Major spinning and horrible vomiting.I had to be taken to the hospital by ambulance . They gave me anti nausea meds and a med to slow down the spinning. It does work but makes me very tired. It is an amazing and scary thing to go thru.

]]> By: Jennie http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-25812 Jennie Sun, 08 Jan 2012 14:52:59 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-25812 Firstly I want to thank everyone for posting about this condition, it does make life easier to bear when you know you are not alone, secondly the net appears to be one of the first ways to hear about any available relief... Fingers crossed some is found soon. My first episode started on the 22nd December with a bunged up feeling, I had a short day at work on the Friday then came home to bed and stayed here throughout Christmas eve, by Christmas morning the whole world was spinning and it took everything I had to get up and watch my young daughters open their presents... By 10am I was vomiting profusely with no sign of stopping and my husband called the emergency doctor. He prescribed me Stemetil to help ease the nausea, my family came over and took my daughters away and a neighbour plated up my husband some Christmas dinner! I stayed still in bed for 24 hours until the nausea had subsided. I started vomiting again in the early hours of the 28th by which time my body had started to struggle, an ambulance was called and I was admitted into hospital and given fluids and an anti-sickness injection. By the 30th I was allowed back home. New Year's Day passed with little dizziness but the nausea returned with a vengeance on the 2nd... Again 36 hours rest helped ease the sickness and I made extra effort to keep drinking fluids. All was well for 2 days then the nausea returned but I fought it off, then last night it became too much so I am sitting on an incline in bed trying to recoup all the lost fluids again and finding out as much as I can about Vertigo. I also suffer from Multiple Sclerosis which has been shown to have a link but very little data on the MS sites which is why this site is a godsend xx Firstly I want to thank everyone for posting about this condition, it does make life easier to bear when you know you are not alone, secondly the net appears to be one of the first ways to hear about any available relief… Fingers crossed some is found soon.

My first episode started on the 22nd December with a bunged up feeling, I had a short day at work on the Friday then came home to bed and stayed here throughout Christmas eve, by Christmas morning the whole world was spinning and it took everything I had to get up and watch my young daughters open their presents… By 10am I was vomiting profusely with no sign of stopping and my husband called the emergency doctor. He prescribed me Stemetil to help ease the nausea, my family came over and took my daughters away and a neighbour plated up my husband some Christmas dinner! I stayed still in bed for 24 hours until the nausea had subsided.
I started vomiting again in the early hours of the 28th by which time my body had started to struggle, an ambulance was called and I was admitted into hospital and given fluids and an anti-sickness injection. By the 30th I was allowed back home.
New Year’s Day passed with little dizziness but the nausea returned with a vengeance on the 2nd… Again 36 hours rest helped ease the sickness and I made extra effort to keep drinking fluids. All was well for 2 days then the nausea returned but I fought it off, then last night it became too much so I am sitting on an incline in bed trying to recoup all the lost fluids again and finding out as much as I can about Vertigo.
I also suffer from Multiple Sclerosis which has been shown to have a link but very little data on the MS sites which is why this site is a godsend xx

]]> By: Sonya http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-23078 Sonya Thu, 08 Dec 2011 03:34:45 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-23078 Today, I had my first experience with vertigo and my first experience with an ambulance (and I didnt even get a siren lol.) I suffer from chronic ear infections...but I have never had vertigo to the point of vomiting and severe sweats. Sucks because I was feeling so much better today than I have in weeks. Now I read once you have a vertigo experience, you should expect more...very scared. Damn. Sonya Today, I had my first experience with vertigo and my first experience with an ambulance (and I didnt even get a siren lol.) I suffer from chronic ear infections…but I have never had vertigo to the point of vomiting and severe sweats. Sucks because I was feeling so much better today than I have in weeks. Now I read once you have a vertigo experience, you should expect more…very scared. Damn.

Sonya

]]> By: Tina http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-22396 Tina Wed, 30 Nov 2011 13:36:42 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-22396 I am so glad I have read this today, I am getting very worried about feeling ill all the time and very fed up with it. My first bout of vertigo was when I was pregnant with my first child it lasted four days and knocked me for six, but thankfully that was it, until a couple of times when i was pregnant 13 months later with my next child. I then would have the odd day when I would feel dizzy be off work, (nobody understands vertigo, the joke to them is don't go up ladders !!!) I only work two days a week and normally my vertigo hits the night before!! I had a a car rear end me in May and since then I am getting prolonged vertigo, I have to get on with it and find it worse when I stop, but since returning from New york less than two weeks ago it has been awful, for four days I was on a "boat" and went to the docs who have finally referred me to a ENT for MRI, but the last two attacks have knocked me for six, I feel like I am getting a sick bug, no dizziness take to bed then wake up during the night feeling sick, then by the time I get up in the morning have a dizzy foggy sicky feeling all day, I know I seem to be getting off woth this lightly compaired to some of the stories i read, but I am not getting quite down and fearful that I may have to live with a days aleast out of every week of my life being ill, I have concerts booked my passion and I am so worried I will have an attack it almost makes me not want to do anything! My kids are getting fed up with saying goodnight to me when I am already in bed, and my hubby as much as he is great when he is home, cannot take time off to look after me or the kids! Sorry I know this is a really long post, I have felt like people don't understand how dreadful I am feeling, I am getting my husband to read this later. Thanks I am so glad I have read this today, I am getting very worried about feeling ill all the time and very fed up with it. My first bout of vertigo was when I was pregnant with my first child it lasted four days and knocked me for six, but thankfully that was it, until a couple of times when i was pregnant 13 months later with my next child. I then would have the odd day when I would feel dizzy be off work, (nobody understands vertigo, the joke to them is don’t go up ladders !!!) I only work two days a week and normally my vertigo hits the night before!! I had a a car rear end me in May and since then I am getting prolonged vertigo, I have to get on with it and find it worse when I stop, but since returning from New york less than two weeks ago it has been awful, for four days I was on a “boat” and went to the docs who have finally referred me to a ENT for MRI, but the last two attacks have knocked me for six, I feel like I am getting a sick bug, no dizziness take to bed then wake up during the night feeling sick, then by the time I get up in the morning have a dizzy foggy sicky feeling all day, I know I seem to be getting off woth this lightly compaired to some of the stories i read, but I am not getting quite down and fearful that I may have to live with a days aleast out of every week of my life being ill, I have concerts booked my passion and I am so worried I will have an attack it almost makes me not want to do anything! My kids are getting fed up with saying goodnight to me when I am already in bed, and my hubby as much as he is great when he is home, cannot take time off to look after me or the kids!

Sorry I know this is a really long post, I have felt like people don’t understand how dreadful I am feeling, I am getting my husband to read this later.

Thanks

]]> By: Asia http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-20712 Asia Fri, 11 Nov 2011 14:46:18 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-20712 Hello, I had onset of vestibular neurinitis on 29th May this year - it was so horrible and frightening that I remember the exact date it happend. I have been unwell since. The crisis lasted 3 days, which I had spent in a hospital as I couldn't eat. And the 3 following weeks I spent at home, in bed, 'fine' when lying down motionless, going crazy in my head just listening to the radio and unable to do anything - like a veggie. I was extra sensitive to any noise and I could not stand any company - everything irritated me. After those 3 weeks I went back to work. It was so difficult, I continued feeling unwell, exhausted, irritated and I looked horrible - pale and just sick. It's almost 6 months now, and even though I am now finally getting better, it's not all fine - I feel anxious, I am scared of driving, I get these 'spells' of feeling uneasy (for no apparent reason) which last for couple seconds at a time. I am very forgetful and have trouble concentrating sometimes. It feels strange suffering from this, it's not like a disaility really, but it certainly feels that way sometimes. And as someone mentioned above - most literature says that it goes away relatively quickly. But from my experience, I would swear by what those few sources in the web say - it takes long to get better and some symptomos continue for many months. I have been wondering about something though - I know that in my case Telfast (allergy medication I took for a while and had stopped just before getting VN) had something to do with it. I wanted to ask if any of you have taken Telfast or any similar medication before the onset? All the best to all of you suffering from NV or general vertigo. Take care, Asia Hello,

I had onset of vestibular neurinitis on 29th May this year – it was so horrible and frightening that I remember the exact date it happend. I have been unwell since. The crisis lasted 3 days, which I had spent in a hospital as I couldn’t eat. And the 3 following weeks I spent at home, in bed, ‘fine’ when lying down motionless, going crazy in my head just listening to the radio and unable to do anything – like a veggie. I was extra sensitive to any noise and I could not stand any company – everything irritated me. After those 3 weeks I went back to work. It was so difficult, I continued feeling unwell, exhausted, irritated and I looked horrible – pale and just sick. It’s almost 6 months now, and even though I am now finally getting better, it’s not all fine – I feel anxious, I am scared of driving, I get these ‘spells’ of feeling uneasy (for no apparent reason) which last for couple seconds at a time. I am very forgetful and have trouble concentrating sometimes.

It feels strange suffering from this, it’s not like a disaility really, but it certainly feels that way sometimes. And as someone mentioned above – most literature says that it goes away relatively quickly. But from my experience, I would swear by what those few sources in the web say – it takes long to get better and some symptomos continue for many months.

I have been wondering about something though – I know that in my case Telfast (allergy medication I took for a while and had stopped just before getting VN) had something to do with it. I wanted to ask if any of you have taken Telfast or any similar medication before the onset?

All the best to all of you suffering from NV or general vertigo.

Take care,

Asia

]]> By: LORI http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-20401 LORI Tue, 08 Nov 2011 18:56:09 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-20401 It is wonderful to find this website and not wonderful to know that this vertigo is not just going to go away for ever. I had my first bout last year, I woke up quickly cuz I thought I was late for jury duty. Immediately when I opened my eyes the world looked short-circuited. I am not exagerating at all when I say I only saw jumping patterns, I had not vision at all. I closed my eyes dropped to the floor and started vomiting, crawled to the bathroom on all fours and stayed on all fours with my head against a wall, vomiting and scared beyone belief. I did not want to move. My family called the paramedics who, picked me up and carried my by hands down 2 flights of steps with me vomiting all the way. I kept my eyes closed for two days, too scared to open them. The doctors did whatever (don't know) for a few hours and then sent me home. With the meds I slept for about a week. Slowly the dizziness started to go away and I could go back to work. I have had two smaller bouts since then, one during a morning weight exercise class, and one a couple of days ago (again in the morning). Like so many of you I am scared to do things to set it off. Once you have had true Vertigo, you will do ANYTHING to avoid it coming back... Does anyone know of any new medication of medical development? if so please post for us. Take care all, Lori It is wonderful to find this website and not wonderful to know that this vertigo is not just going to go away for ever.

I had my first bout last year, I woke up quickly cuz I thought I was late for jury duty. Immediately when I opened my eyes the world looked short-circuited. I am not exagerating at all when I say I only saw jumping patterns, I had not vision at all. I closed my eyes dropped to the floor and started vomiting, crawled to the bathroom on all fours and stayed on all fours with my head against a wall, vomiting and scared beyone belief. I did not want to move. My family called the paramedics who, picked me up and carried my by hands down 2 flights of steps with me vomiting all the way. I kept my eyes closed for two days, too scared to open them. The doctors did whatever (don’t know) for a few hours and then sent me home. With the meds I slept for about a week. Slowly the dizziness started to go away and I could go back to work. I have had two smaller bouts since then, one during a morning weight exercise class, and one a couple of days ago (again in the morning). Like so many of you I am scared to do things to set it off. Once you have had true Vertigo, you will do ANYTHING to avoid it coming back… Does anyone know of any new medication of medical development? if so please post for us.

Take care all,
Lori

]]> By: daphne http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-19627 daphne Sat, 29 Oct 2011 17:55:17 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-19627 undiagnose and fearful of the worst My sensation of dizziness/vertigo, imbalance seems to have been triggered by a trip away from my home (argentina) and what is most known to me, just a year after my father died (2010) I´m 27 yrs, a musician and I came to paris for 4 months… I`m one week away of returning home and since the first weeks of my stay here I began with a feeling of dizziness, vertigo that hasn´t gone away… I started feeling it at the apartment in front of the computer, thought it was nothing, then after some days i had a panic attack or something and nearly fainted at the metro… then i started feeling it more often... i´ve always been anxious and do cognitive therapy back home, somewhat on the hypocondriac side… I´ve done blood tests here in paris (not sure that counts for MS) oto.neurologist after a month and something of first symptoms (fukuda test, tandem gait, standing with eyes closed, fingers to nose, my pupils checked, postural, inner ear and eyes motricy all seem normal, no nystagmus or ataxia, he said he found me more than anything stressed, just and hypovalence of the right side but not confirmed because i succedeed at a more reliable test) , MRI, babinsky test, blood pressure normal. And i still feel dizzy and when i walk a subjective feeling of not being well balanced. I still walk, ride bike, play the drums and sing, go in the bus or metro and don´t feel motion sickness… So I search non stop the internet believing i have something wrong, that this can´t just be anxiety, evethough i know of a lot of cases that can be just that and i don´t underestimate the power of my mind. Having experienced the symptoms for so long (it´s gonna be 4 months)… I search forums of multiple sclerosis and think I have that.. and with the symptoms not going away i began to have trouble sleeping and became nervous, so i started taking bromazepan to have some sleep at night and freak out less… it´s been difficult i must say, would love some support..or any opinion about how to proceed… love, daphne undiagnose and fearful of the worst
My sensation of dizziness/vertigo, imbalance seems to have been triggered by a trip away from my home (argentina) and what is most known to me, just a year after my father died (2010)
I´m 27 yrs, a musician and I came to paris for 4 months… I`m one week away of returning home and since the first weeks of my stay here I began with a feeling of dizziness, vertigo that hasn´t gone away… I started feeling it at the apartment in front of the computer, thought it was nothing, then after some days i had a panic attack or something and nearly fainted at the metro… then i started feeling it more often…
i´ve always been anxious and do cognitive therapy back home, somewhat on the hypocondriac side… I´ve done blood tests here in paris (not sure that counts for MS) oto.neurologist after a month and something of first symptoms (fukuda test, tandem gait, standing with eyes closed, fingers to nose, my pupils checked, postural, inner ear and eyes motricy all seem normal, no nystagmus or ataxia, he said he found me more than anything stressed, just and hypovalence of the right side but not confirmed because i succedeed at a more reliable test) , MRI, babinsky test, blood pressure normal. And i still feel dizzy and when i walk a subjective feeling of not being well balanced. I still walk, ride bike, play the drums and sing, go in the bus or metro and don´t feel motion sickness…
So I search non stop the internet believing i have something wrong, that this can´t just be anxiety, evethough i know of a lot of cases that can be just that and i don´t underestimate the power of my mind. Having experienced the symptoms for so long (it´s gonna be 4 months)… I search forums of multiple sclerosis and think I have that.. and with the symptoms not going away i began to have trouble sleeping and became nervous, so i started taking bromazepan to have some sleep at night and freak out less… it´s been difficult i must say, would love some support..or any opinion about how to proceed…
love,
daphne

]]> By: Kenneth http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-18709 Kenneth Sun, 16 Oct 2011 05:26:02 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-18709 Hello everyone, I have had my war with vertigo for a little while now, even though I havent gone through a full on attack in about 5 months. Seeing all these similar stories brought me a bit of inner reassurance that I am not alone in this. I still have my off days here and there, like my mind isnt fully working with my senses and I feel fuzzy, but this mostly happens at work and not at home. I have no idea why I got vertigo, I eat fairly healthy, i workout about 4 to 5 times a week, and im only 25 years old. I remember being at Fuddruckers, ordering, then that spinning sensation came over me. I thought it was because I was really hungry, so I ignored it. I finished eating and it was still happening, so I had to have my gf drive us home. It passed after I got home and napped for a couple of hours. I had three more severe bouts, and the doc prescribed antivert. I feel easily anxious now and feel as if I am going to have an anxiety attack sometimes. I was never like this 6 months ago. Hope you all get better. Hello everyone, I have had my war with vertigo for a little while now, even though I havent gone through a full on attack in about 5 months. Seeing all these similar stories brought me a bit of inner reassurance that I am not alone in this. I still have my off days here and there, like my mind isnt fully working with my senses and I feel fuzzy, but this mostly happens at work and not at home. I have no idea why I got vertigo, I eat fairly healthy, i workout about 4 to 5 times a week, and im only 25 years old. I remember being at Fuddruckers, ordering, then that spinning sensation came over me. I thought it was because I was really hungry, so I ignored it. I finished eating and it was still happening, so I had to have my gf drive us home. It passed after I got home and napped for a couple of hours. I had three more severe bouts, and the doc prescribed antivert. I feel easily anxious now and feel as if I am going to have an anxiety attack sometimes. I was never like this 6 months ago. Hope you all get better.

]]> By: laura http://vertigoguy.com/my-first-experience-with-severe-vertigo/comment-page-2/#comment-18249 laura Mon, 10 Oct 2011 07:34:39 +0000 http://vertigoguy.com/?p=4#comment-18249 After two years of hell and doctors not really having a clue,being fobbed off with travel sickness pills, i finally got to see a consultant and he told me i had been overdosed on medication from my doctor for a long time and a few pills were interacting with others, so was taken off most of my tablets apart from my high blood pressure and thyroid tabs i feel 80% better ,i also have inner ear damage, my left ear is painful all the time and constant hissing in it. The sorer my ear is the worse my balance becomes. The consultant told me i have Dorsal stream disorder which has to do with the back part of the brain and I am having it explained to me next week. I do still get dizzy and lose balance but i don't have to walk with a stick, I can go out on my own now as i developed agoraphobia for a year, people still look at me as if i'm drunk but i'm used to that now,part and parcel of this illness for all of us. The worst thing is that doctors don't seem to take this serious and it just ruins your life, but i think we all have to learn to live with it. Hope others have found at least an explanation for their dizzies, its the not knowing too. i know i will always have this but life could be a lot worse i suppose :) After two years of hell and doctors not really having a clue,being fobbed off with travel sickness pills, i finally got to see a consultant and he told me i had been overdosed on medication from my doctor for a long time and a few pills were interacting with others, so was taken off most of my tablets apart from my high blood pressure and thyroid tabs i feel 80% better ,i also have inner ear damage, my left ear is painful all the time and constant hissing in it. The sorer my ear is the worse my balance becomes. The consultant told me i have Dorsal stream disorder which has to do with the back part of the brain and I am having it explained to me next week. I do still get dizzy and lose balance but i don’t have to walk with a stick, I can go out on my own now as i developed agoraphobia for a year, people still look at me as if i’m drunk but i’m used to that now,part and parcel of this illness for all of us. The worst thing is that doctors don’t seem to take this serious and it just ruins your life, but i think we all have to learn to live with it. Hope others have found at least an explanation for their dizzies, its the not knowing too. i know i will always have this but life could be a lot worse i suppose :)

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