Coping With Vertigo

March 2008

• Dizziness Shock - by Lisa - (Fri, Mar 28 2008)
  My first encounter with Vertigo just happened a few days ago. I was sitting at work and then all of a sudden I got extremely light headed, dizzy and nauseous. [more..]
• Vertigo: Unknown Cause - by Julie - (Fri, Mar 28 2008)
  In 2003 I was on vacation in FL when I had my first attack. All morning I’d been feeling nauseous and off. I was wasting time at a mall before catching a plane home when I got the spinning feeling. [more..]
• Bad attack - by helen - (Tue, Mar 25 2008)
  Two years ago i suffered my first attack, i rolled over in bed and my head went into the most awful spin, i thought i was having a stroke or dying. [more..]
• I got relief - by Lita - (Tue, Mar 25 2008)
  I was diagnosed with vertigo at Urgent care. while I was waiting i put my head down between my legs to try & relieve the nauseated feeling, as I did this I also stretched my neck to relieve the pressure of light headedness [more..]
• Ear Infections - by J.E. - (Tue, Mar 25 2008)
  As a child I experienced severe infections of both inner ears. I was deamed “nearly deaf”, until age 16. [more..]
• 36 and started having symptons - by CM - (Tue, Mar 25 2008)
  I started having symptons about 5 months ago. Started with vomiting anything that I consumed even water. I had to sleep with a bed pan by my side everynight. [more..]
• Help!!!! - by JH - (Tue, Mar 25 2008)
  I am 34 years old and suffer from vertigo, I got a stomach virus last year from a co-worker and it seemed to trigger the event. Since the onset I have been so depressed. [more..]
• vertigo…go.. - by Dr.Aashini. - (Mon, Mar 24 2008)
  I started realising tat something was wrong with my balance power..when i entered my 1st yr in a medical college..and soon diagnosed as vertigo. [more..]
• I got help for my vertigo! - by RS - (Mon, Mar 24 2008)
  I woke up last Saturday and felt like I was on a merry-go-round. The whole room was spinning out of control. I tried to walk down the hallway and was bouncing from wall to wall because I couldn’t tell which end was up. [more..]
• Been Suffering for a month now - by Dee - (Mon, Mar 24 2008)
  IT all started with a sick stomach and no energy. Then I turned over in bed and thought I would throw up. It got worse so I went to ER, they gave me a million tests that came back neg.and then gave me antivert and sent me to A Neurologist. [more..]
• vertigo attack - by Diana - (Mon, Mar 24 2008)
  A few days ago I started to get this ringing and buzzing in my head …clicking annoyed me yesterday, so I was going to see my doctor knowing something wasn’t right with my right ear. [more..]
• Fighting the demons I mean vertigo - by J.T. - (Tue, Mar 18 2008)
  In August 2001 I was window shopping with my girlfriend and all of a sudden I started to feel lightheaded and felt like the ground was sucking me up. [more..]
• I GOT RELIEF!!! - by Sara - (Tue, Mar 18 2008)
  I had the same spinning at 5:30 AM. ER Told me it was Benign positional vertigo. Went to ear nose and throat doctor. Performed the EPLIPY MANUEVER. [more..]
• morning After Endoscopy - by Dizzy Doug - (Mon, Mar 17 2008)
  The morning after having an Endoscope I felt a spinning sensation while turning in bed, then tried to get up to go to the bathroom, and fell straight down. asked my wife to help me, she thought i had a stroke but i was moving everything [more..]
• I STILL HAVE SPELLS… - by Lisa - (Thu, Mar 13 2008)
  Hi everyone. My name is Lisa and I am 42 now, I have been living with Vertigo for 23yrs.and I hate it! My first episode happened to me when I was at home with my 6 month old daughter(just the 2 of us) I was laying on the floor with her playing and I went to turn my head and that is when it hit me,and it hit me hard! [more..]
• Vertigo?? - by Mish - (Fri, Mar 07 2008)
  on early hours of 7th March I went up Radio City,s tower to record radio programme , I had always been scared of heights and was lil anxious of where I was going , my symptoms started in the lift,just feeling little fluttering in my tummyjoking with my collegues, [more..]
• long time sufferer - by Margaret - (Wed, Mar 05 2008)
  I had my first episode when I was 40. That was a long time ago. When I woke up extremely dizzy and couldn’t raise my head even an inch without throwing up my husband took me to the emergency room (I threw up all the way from the car to inside). [more..]
• What I did - by Bobbye - (Wed, Mar 05 2008)
  I had an episode of vertigo on Saturday-my first…hope it’s my last. What I did to make it go away without going to the ER. [more..]
• Post viral infection Vertigo? - by simon - (Tue, Mar 04 2008)
  I suffered with spells of vertigo about two weeks following Tonsillitis (May 07)-at the time I did not appreciate the possible link. The vertigo attacks were severe, sudden and frightening. My doctor sent me for MRI scan (normal)and hearing tests. [more..]
• This site HELPED me so much - by Bobbye O. - (Mon, Mar 03 2008)
  I woke up and the room was spinning. I woke up at 4:30 a.m. -the spinning was making me nauseous. I was very hot, I started breathing really fast and heavy, hoping that I just needed more oxygen to my brain. [more..]