Suffering with....

[Paul J]

.....Vertigo!! I have been suffering over the past couple days. with vertigo. Very unpleasant too. Can't stand up or walk ... Ver Unsteady on my legs, let alone the odd chundering. Been given tablets for it but not sure if they are of any help yet. Not sure how long this will last.

[Duncan B]

....anxiety for me, also not pleasant. Some quite debilitating panic attacks while out and about. No apparent trigger for it so hopefully it'll settle down soon.

 

I hope you are feeling better soon too.

 

Duncan B

[Retired Bob]

1 hour ago, Paul J said:

.....Vertigo!! I have been suffering over the past couple days. with vertigo. Very unpleasant too. Can't stand up or walk ... Ver Unsteady on my legs, let alone the odd chundering. Been given tablets for it but not sure if they are of any help yet. Not sure how long this will last.

I was struck with this problem a few years ago. as you say, very unpleasant.  Nothing I took helped, there are exercises of the head that can alleviate the dizziness (google-vertigo)  Over the years the attacks have decreased, sometimes I can have a complete year without one.  When I get a vertigo attack now I can manage it quite well and still function. (I call it vertigo-lite as it's not too bad) I find keeping my head still and either reading a book or watching tv helps but as the problem is in your inner ear, travel or sea sickness tablets have no effect.

[Bullbasket]

I know just how you feel, and I sympathise. I've had it for about ten years now. I saw a specialist a few years ago, and I was diagnosed as having Meniere's disease (I'll let you google that). I take tablets for it each day, and have some stronger ones, if I get a bad attack. My worst time is when I first get out of bed. Sometimes, it feels like a  bad hangover, and is accompanied by nausea. I lie down again and wait for it to pass, usually within an hour. Fortunately, the attacks don't come too often.

 

John.

[Paul J]

Thanks for all your comments guys. What I don't get is why it came on so sudden. Never had anything like this before.

[Bullbasket]

9 minutes ago, Paul J said:

Thanks for all your comments guys. What I don't get is why it came on so sudden. Never had anything like this before.

Can't give a positive answer to that. Maybe it's the result of something from years ago. In my case, I went to work at the Shell refinery at Shell Haven in the late 60's, and in those days, H&S was virtually non existent. I was frequently working around pumps and compressors which were putting out something in the region of 90-100 decibels. I didn't hang round them for too long. Fortunately, ear defenders came in soon after, but maybe, the damage was already done, and the vertigo is the result of that.

 

John.

[Mr T]

From my ENT days, vertigo as a symptom can have a number of causes, and it is sometimes difficult to pin down. This makes treatment difficult. Sometimes it is associated with ear infections, when it will settle down as the infection clears up. Other conditions may be more refractory, as some of you have found. It is a most unpleasant condition and anybody scuffering from it has my sympathy. I wouldn't wish it on anyone (though they may be a couple of exceptions. 

I am currently sduffering from a pulled ankle ligament that is taking ages to settle. It is causing a pronounced limp and pain and as a knock on is doing nothing for my arthritic knees and my otherwise kindly dispostion. 

[Retired Bob]

7 hours ago, Paul J said:

Thanks for all your comments guys. What I don't get is why it came on so sudden. Never had anything like this before.

Same with me and some work colleagues that also started suffering with it.  One morning I was driving to work along a long curving road, no other traffic, the sensation that hit me was that the car was slowly turning over in a clock-wise barrel roll, I had to resist the urge to try and steer in the opposite direction and rely on my visual input, horrible sensation.  The next time it happened to me, I woke up and the room was spinning, but before you say that's a common effect, I had not had any alcohol to drink (I had stopped decades ago) nausea, dizziness the lot.  Closing my eyes didn't help.

It appears to affect people of all sorts of professions so I don't think that's an indicator.    Apparently, women suffer worse effects than men.  

[Circloy]

Companies that don't deliver what they promise.

[Paul J]

42 minutes ago, Retired Bob said:

Same with me and some work colleagues that also started suffering with it.  One morning I was driving to work along a long curving road, no other traffic, the sensation that hit me was that the car was slowly turning over in a clock-wise barrel roll, I had to resist the urge to try and steer in the opposite direction and rely on my visual input, horrible sensation.  The next time it happened to me, I woke up and the room was spinning, but before you say that's a common effect, I had not had any alcohol to drink (I had stopped decades ago) nausea, dizziness the lot.  Closing my eyes didn't help.

It appears to affect people of all sorts of professions so I don't think that's an indicator.    Apparently, women suffer worse effects than men.  

Scary! I'm currently in Chichester hospital waiting to be seen lying on one if those trolleys. Ambo crew were delightful .. I thought I was in heaven with a pair of angels. 

[phat trev]

Best wishes Paul and hope it clears and the medical team can discover what's up! 

[Mike]

Get well soon, Paul.  Never had it myself, and hope it stays that way.  I don't do much during your average day, but a lot of it involves not lying down, so you have my sympathies.

[Paul J]

Thanks all. Just had a visit by the Doc, and after a few questions etc she seems to think it points to bleed on brain but this needs to be checked following a scan. Scary but it doesn't seem to be that serious somaybe not vertigo!

 

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.... so they tell me?

[Paul J]

Latest. Ct sca n showed nothing, nor the chest x-ray 

[Paul J]

Update on my situation is it seems I have suffered BPPV.  Look it up for details.  Good thing there is treatment  and things I  need to do to get rid of it. 

The giddiness I sufferd with and still am at the moment is like doing all the aerobatic moves plus spins you can think of all in one go. Get out of that!

[Karearea]

After waking up and falling over with enough force to hit a nightlight with my head and damage the power socket (and trip the associated RCD in the fusebox!) I was admitted to hospital last year and had the same litany of scans and tests. The outcome was also suspected BPPV triggered by a mild viral illness.

 

I may have been lucky, but the head manipulation techniques whereby you work the fluid in your inner ear through a series of turns gave me a degree of relief. The symptoms cleared up after a few weeks, but the vertigo was debilitating while it lasted. I’m lucky I can work from home. I hope you’re able to find relief and the symptoms dissipate soon. 

[Paul J]

16 hours ago, Karearea said:

After waking up and falling over with enough force to hit a nightlight with my head and damage the power socket (and trip the associated RCD in the fusebox!) I was admitted to hospital last year and had the same litany of scans and tests. The outcome was also suspected BPPV triggered by a mild viral illness.

 

I may have been lucky, but the head manipulation techniques whereby you work the fluid in your inner ear through a series of turns gave me a degree of relief. The symptoms cleared up after a few weeks, but the vertigo was debilitating while it lasted. I’m lucky I can work from home. I hope you’re able to find relief and the symptoms dissipate soon. 

Thanks chap. I have been doing the exercise with a physio in hospital and it's looking good. They are looking at letting me go today. I too hope it will go away and not recur . But I feel it's curtailed my gliding activity.

[Paul J]

Just now, Paul J said:

Thanks chap. I have been doing the exercise with a physio in hospital and it's looking good. They are looking at letting me go today. I too hope it will go away and not recur . But I feel it's curtailed my gliding activity. 

And I sincerely hope it won't stop me from travelling to Aotearoa later this year as it's all boooked!

 

 

 

 

 

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[Neil.C]

Sorry to hear about your vertigo Paul it is an incredibly debilitating condition.

 

I got a bout of it last year in the USA and I couldn't move for a week, just lying in bed feeling incredibly sick.

 

Went to hospital, drip in arm and had a CT scan which was fine, Tablets prescribed but I was still uneasy on my feet for a fortnight after.

 

It can sometimes take a while to go but it will go. 

 

All the best. 

[Paul J]

I'm back home from hospital. Plus some Betahistimine tabs to take. And instructions for various exercises to do. 

Truly relieved I am in the peace and quiet of home after 4 nights on hospital and all that goes with it. But I  have to say the NHS staff work there hearts out caring for sick people. I made lots of observations and they were real eye openers.

Roll on full recovery!

[Pete in Lincs]

Enjoy home again and take it easy. All the best, Pete

[Paul J]

Am home now, since Tuesday. Got a bit car sick on the way but wife coped with me OK

.  Still a bit groggy and doing  exrcises to deal with the issue and taking medication. Just need to eat up a lot and keep doing the exercises.

[stevehnz]

I had an experience with spells of vertigo , probably 20 years plus now. It would come on without warning & ranged from feeling a bit unsteady as I walked, half a step behind myself I called it, to full blown dizziness & nausea. I was prescribed Stemitil, an anti nausea tablet that worked very well for me. Gradually I got over it - haven't had anything like it for ages. Nothing ever showed in tests. Scary though & I have huge sympathy for those afflicted with it.

Steve.

[thommo]

I had similar many years ago.

Was due to the formation of crystals in the inner ear.

Some exercises & time and it disappeared after a week or so.

[Paul J]

After a week at home from the hospital, I still suffer from the sickness and.slightly less of the giddiness. I only feel right when I am stationary like sitting or in bed. The moment I get up the sickness sets in with me being sick. Called the medics and waiting to hear what is suggested.