Coping With Vertigo

July 2008

• Dizzy almost every day - by Angie - (Thu, Jul 31 2008)
  I’m a 34yr old female, mother of two (three yr old boy and 9 month old daughter). The first episode I had was almost three years ago, i felt so dizzy I couldn’t stand so my husband had to take me to the ER, where they told me it was vertigo [more..]
• 3rd vertigo attack - by jen - (Thu, Jul 31 2008)
  Hi, I’m 42 and my first vertigo attack hit me in March 2007 with no warning, and lasted for 2 months. I was finally referred to an ENT who did the Eply manuver. It worked and I was vertigo free for almost a year. [more..]
• I.m scared - by JD - (Wed, Jul 30 2008)
  I am 63, awoke to find the world spinning, felt I would fall off the bed. It eventually stopped, but all day I was very lightheaded. [more..]
• What was that? - by Shari - (Wed, Jul 30 2008)
  I was sitting at my desk working one afternoon when all of a sudden the room started spinning. My eyes were going from side to side and I couldn’t stop them! [more..]
• 35 with Vertigo - by CO - (Tue, Jul 29 2008)
  I am 35 and for the past year I have been suffering w/ Vertigo and just 2 months ago starting getting Migraines…Not sure if the two are related [more..]
• Finally an explanation - by Yolanda - (Tue, Jul 29 2008)
  I am 36yrs old and just today I have receive an explanation of what is going on in my head. All this time I thought something was wrong with my brain. [more..]
• i just cant believe this - by danielle - (Thu, Jul 24 2008)
  it started with this heavywarm feeling around my ear i never thought that one thing had to do with the other. then after about 3 months of that my head achs started. [more..]
• Finding an answer - by Ashley H. - (Wed, Jul 23 2008)
  I had a car crash about 3 years ago it all seamed ok then about a year after i started getting neck pains didnt think anything of it [more..]
• My Vertigo Cured - by LAN - (Tue, Jul 22 2008)
  I have delayed long enough in sharing my story. My heart breaks to read all the posts because I too, have been there. I thought my life was over and I rarely left the house. [more..]
• my vertigo story - by Ivone - (Tue, Jul 22 2008)
  I’m 24 years old and I have been living with vertigo since 2001. I was in a car accident in which I suffered a head trauma, it was nothing too serious, I was released from the hospital after a day, but a couple of months after the accident, I started getting “dizzy spells”. [more..]
• Being Afraid of living with Vertigo - by Virginia - (Mon, Jul 21 2008)
  God, I don’t know where to begin. 4 months ago, I was experiencing dizziness, migraine nausea, and vomiting. Everywhere I was, Everything I did, the room seem to spin. I went to see my Internal Medicine doctor about it and she diagnose it as Vertigo. [more..]
• This is my story - by Tammy - (Mon, Jul 21 2008)
  I am 47 years old and have suffered with migranes for years now. I take Relplax when I have one and it goes ways withing hours. Although I do not take any other medications the medication makes me very sleepy and I normally have to go to bed. [more..]
• Afraid and waiting for another attack - by Yvette - (Fri, Jul 18 2008)
  I am a 39 year old mother of 3 girls. Last year I had my first episode of Vertigo. It scared me so bad. [more..]
• vertigo is taken over my life - by Angela - (Wed, Jul 16 2008)
  I have very serve VERTIGO. I can be driving, lying down, walking or sitting it just attacks out of no where. [more..]
• Is 50 the new 80? - by Jim K. - (Wed, Jul 16 2008)
  I am a fifty year old male that has experienced two seperate bouts with vertigo in the past two months. I am an electrician who works with live electricity, lifts and ladders daily. [more..]
• Vertigo - by Mandy E - (Tue, Jul 15 2008)
  My name is Mandy, I am 24 years old. August of 2006 was my first vertigo attack, which lasted 3 weeks. [more..]
• 5 1/2 years and counting! - by Lucy - (Tue, Jul 15 2008)
  In Dec 2002 I suffered a severe vertigo attack that I have never recovered from, I was 31 when it happened. Initially I could not walk as it felt I had a brick in one ear pulling me to the floor, vomiting etc, just terrible as you all know. [more..]
• My story with VERTIGO - by Amber - (Tue, Jul 15 2008)
  I woke up the morning of June 6 2008 feeling as if I was about to pass out on the floor. I was able to get ready for work and as soon as I made it there I just about fell out. [more..]
• Paris…or not - by PBME - (Fri, Jul 11 2008)
  On July 7 I was about to board a flight to France with my husband for our annual vacation when the world suddenly dropped out from under me! [more..]
• My vertigo - by Karen - (Fri, Jul 11 2008)
  I had my first case about three weeks ago. I had been laying around all day, but with a slightly upset stomach. Around 8:00 pm, I suddenly couldn’t walk from the kitchen to the sofa without crawling. [more..]
• My vertigo nightmare - by Pauletta - (Wed, Jul 09 2008)
  I always had occasional boughts with dizzy “spells” as my family and I would call them. I had a lot of ear infections as a child some of them severe enough to bust open and bleed. [more..]
• Occasional Severe Vertigo - by ALM - (Tue, Jul 08 2008)
  2 years ago, I had my first Vertigo attack. It lasted 3 days & Antivert did not help. [more..]
• I’m terrified - by Suze - (Mon, Jul 07 2008)
  I’m 52 and had my first attack 3 nights ago. I rolled over in bed and was struck awake with this horrible spinning, nausea and weakness. [more..]
• Vertigo - by Wenda A. - (Wed, Jul 02 2008)
  Experience vertigo about three months ago I woke up in the middle of the night and the run was spinning, I thought to myself I must have go up to fast and I lay back down and the room was still spinning. [more..]
• Vertigo Madness - by Jakki - (Wed, Jul 02 2008)
  In 2006 I was diagnosed with Vertigo. I have been living with it since then. I have had dizzy spells often but deal with them with the assistance of medication. [more..]
• I get so mad - by Apache Savage - (Wed, Jul 02 2008)
  I get so mad when I see all the vertigo entries with the first experience in 2008 and they are already diagnosed. Vertigo a lot of them say. In fact all of the one’s I read just said Vertigo and say they were treated for vertigo - and that scares me. [more..]