Coping With Vertigo

July 2009

• Am i going to be the same again? - by jolie - (Tue, Jul 28 2009)
  My Vertigo episode started a month ago and my life is not the same again…the visit ot the local ER showed all the tests negative including a brain scan… why am i feeling this way? [more..]
• My second time - by Tammy - (Fri, Jul 24 2009)
  I woke up the day after I flew home from Florida and the room was spinning. I made it to the bathroom and almost passed out. The spins got worse until I vomited. [more..]
• What’s going on? - by Alecia D. - (Thu, Jul 23 2009)
  A little over three weeks ago, I turned to go into the livingroom, and suddenly the house began spinning faster and faster. I immediately sat down and became terribly frightened not knowing what was going on. However, although the house was spinning, and I was feeling nauseous, I could still hear and talk to my son. [more..]
• Nearly four months… - by Oski - (Wed, Jul 22 2009)
  I woke up, the walls were spinning and I was so sick I could barely crawl to the bathroom to vomit repeatedly. After 6 hours in the ER, I walked out with what my neurologist calls the “after effects,” no longer nauseous but with a severely stoned feeling. [more..]
• Suprise! Vertigo - by ATM - (Wed, Jul 22 2009)
  I have had vertigo for several years. The very first time I experienced it - I was driving at 75mph on Interstate 96 across Michigan. The entire dashboard started spinning and I had NO idea what what happening. [more..]
• No One Understands - by Suzie - (Tue, Jul 21 2009)
  I have been suffering from vertigo on and off since I was about 16 years old. It would usually start when rolling over in bed or bending over. I would feel the room spinning around me. [more..]
• vertigo - by LA - (Mon, Jul 20 2009)
  I was diagnosed with vertigo in 2006 and had it twice after that again. I thought it was just due to long trips on plains, busses or boats, almost live motion sickness but I went to the doctor after I felt very sick. [more..]
• 7 months of hell - by David - (Fri, Jul 17 2009)
  I can relate to so many of your stories. I rolled over on my right side in bed the first week of October and my life changed. My world starting spinning. It was terrifying to say the least. [more..]
• Vertigo - by Mirtha W. - (Wed, Jul 15 2009)
  My first episode of vertigo occurred back in 2005. The Doctors referred me to an ear nose and throat clinic. the ENT (ear, nose, and throat) clinic ran several tests which included a brain scan, and lying down with electrodes on my head each time I experienced an episode of sudden dizziness. [more..]
• Vertigo - by Avril P. - (Mon, Jul 13 2009)
  WOW…..I thought a hang over was bad until i experienced VERTIGO… scary. [more..]
• Feeling Dead (and wishing I was!) - by Rachel - (Mon, Jul 13 2009)
  The first time I experienced vertigo, I thought I was dying. I had virtually no pain at all, just an ongoing feeling of detachment, dizziness, extreme fatigue, feeling that my limbs were made of lead while at the same time floating instead of walking (on legs I couldn’t feel anyways). [more..]
• Spinning in Oshawa - by Joanne - (Wed, Jul 08 2009)
  I was diagnosed with Vertigo 3 months ago and life has not been the same since. I had this crazy scrambled brain feeling for a couple of days and went to the doc thinking that my blood pressure meds were out of whack. Then he told me I had Vertigo. [more..]
• vertigo - by aps - (Mon, Jul 06 2009)
  Hi, I deal with vertigo and never know when to expect it. I want to know if anyone yells out the way I do when having v. It is almost as I am reaching out moaning trying to hang on as I feel the awful spinning and nausea and than slight headache I know it is [more..]
• dizzzeee - by Susanna - (Mon, Jul 06 2009)
  I have slight dizziness — very little in the day and most nights are ok. But! about once a week I wake up with some spinning and then throw up for hours with [more..]