Coping With VertigoThis section is a place to share stories about Coping With Vertigo Below are entries of those who have already shared their stories. We hope that you find their experiences helpful to your own situation. You may also Help others by sharing your story. To quickly access health information from your website's browser, download First, Hopefully Last, Vertigo Experience BACKGROUND: (a) I have suffered from car sickness my whole life. Even when driving myself on a particularly winding road, I get nauseous. This is worse when my eyes are tired. (b) Flying (landing, to be exact) is always extremely painful in my ears. Since discovery of Sudafed, flying is bearable but still somewhat painful.(c) Though I used to rarely get sick, I have had three colds or viral infections in the past 6 months with total or partial laryngitis. (Cleared up.) (d) My eyes have been bothering me a lot for a few months–easily tired, hard to focus, resulting in sleepiness. Also have a vein pulsing in one eye off and on all day now. (e) Dentist told me recently I have bone resorption going on in one tooth near that site. Haven’t made it to the specialist yet). FIRST VERTIGO EXPERIENCE: Came on at work. I started feeling dizzy and nauseous; first thoughts were food poisoning; or this eye problem–just need to rest my eyes, I thought. I went and lay down on the floor (felt ok) but then went to get up and everything went spinning and I threw up. I made a pillow of books on my desk and was fine as long as I did not lift my head. Finally after about two hours of this only getting worse, I asked coworkers to call 911. I had never experienced anything like this before and was getting scared. AT THE HOSPITAL: Just lifting my head long enough to get my clothes off (a few seconds) was enough to cause vomiting. CAT scan, blood tests, EKG sugar, blood pressure all normal. A drip of Benadryl and meclazine helped. They released me after 6-1/2 hrs. with the diagnosis of vertigo The doctor sounded downright surprised when after all these tests she moved a pencil in front of my eyes and got nystagmus. “She’s got vertigo!” she exclaimed. Duh, I thought–that’s the *complaint*. AT HOME: I am okay at home now on the Dramamine-Less-Drowsy formula (just one or two a day) waiting for the first available ENT visit six days after the ER visit. The first day I felt like I was walking on a swaying boat; that has stopped; I just feel very heavy on my feet and that focusing thing. WHAT WORRIES ME about these posts is how many people seem to report *chronic* vertigo. On the other hand, people who had just one episode probably don’t bother visiting this site! Comments
June 2009
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