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5 1/2 years and counting!
by: Lucy
on 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. No medication helps except for Stemitil for nausea.
I would highly recomment that any person with vertigo get testing done to pinpoint the cause. While it is not known why it happens to me, it was discovered that my eyes ‘bounce’ up and down when I move around, this is called having a downbeat nystigma.
I have found that I have learnt how to move around with out upsetting my condition, needless to say I have not been able to lie flat on the floor, run or do anything that moves my head around too much. I sleep with alot of pillows, so I sleep ‘up’ in bed.
My condition is unreliable and while I might need to ‘rest’ often, I don’t suffer from the ‘being pulled into the abyss’ feeling to often thank God!
Stress doesn’t help and I certainly don’t have the stamina to work full-time! However I have changed my diet recently to low-carb, high protien and have felt some improvements in my overall health. I’m also having fun with the Nintento Wii Fit as it has exercises I can do without me having to move my head around too fast!
Whilst I was at home also in the beginning stages spending alot of time in bed I started to study an off-campus university degree when I felt more able to read and get up more. Good news is that I was able to attend uni for the last year of the degree (part-time) and graduated in May this year.
I did end up applying for a Disability Support Pension (Australia)as working full-time is out. I have been granted this and this helps towards the family income. I continue to try and engage myself with activites (doing a drawing class at present). I am also looking for an employer who can take me on for a few hours per week. I also spend time trying to think of any home businesses I could develop!
So my ethos is that I try and keep living and moving and just have to work around feeling sick for a few days.
Good luck to you all battling with the condition
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Thu, Jul 17 2008
Hi Toni,
Thanks for you comments, I had a laugh when I read your comment on not looking injured. It's so true, I think people would feel more convinc...Read
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Wed, Jul 16 2008
Hello and thanks for sharing your story. I actually found it uplifting.
I had a very severe attack of Vertigo on May 19th of this year and I have b...Read
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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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
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- 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.
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- 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”.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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!
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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- 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.
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