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I’m 30 and started getting symptoms in my early twenties. I had come back from university and was sitting in my room when the room started spinning, I had hot and cold sweats and when I went to the bathroom, I had to lay on the floor. When I tried to get up I couldn’t, because the sensation was so strong that my head was pinned to the floor, almost like being horizontal was the natural position to be in and gravity had pulled me toward the floor. The room was spinning and like I was being magnetically pulled toward the floor. I had to lay on the floor for about 15 minutes and couldn’t move my head. I was in a panic and I couldn’t physically get back up due to the unbalance and fear of vomiting. When it wore off it was pretty quick, but the feeling can be described like severe sea sickness, but sea sickness doesn’t have the same pull. This was the first severe attack I ever experienced. It gave me a terrible migraine I went to the doctor and he told me it was vertigo I didn’t have another attack until I went shopping in a large shopping outlet alone, where there was so much sensory activity to take in. Then, I felt another episode coming on. I started veering into shops windows, and lost my balance so much that I had to sit down and wait for it to wear off. To other people I must have looked drunk and since then over the past 5 years it has been less severe, only when I stand up quickly do I get dizzy. However last week I had a second severe attack, when I got out of bed quickly to answer the door. I went to start the car and it hit me like a bolt out of the blue. I had hot and cold sweats and felt like so sick, I had to get back in the house where I collapsed on the hall floor. The sensation felt like my head was pinned to the floor and spinning so fast I almost blacked out. I felt so weak I couldn’t move or focus only cry, because you feel helpless and have to sit it out. I would hate for this to happen in a public place or at work. I know one other person who suffers from it and he is in his fifties but other than that nobody my own age.
November 2008
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