Coping With Vertigo

November 2009

• Waking to extreme vertigo…. - by Shane - (Fri, Nov 20 2009)
  I woke up to the feeling of my head spinning and got out of bed and instantly fell to the ground. I crawled to the stairway and slithered down the stairs. called for my daughter and she came and helped me to the car and drove me to the ER. [more..]
• vertigo - by Audrey - (Tue, Nov 17 2009)
  I’ve had vertigo off and on since my car accident in ‘06. At first i didn’t know what was happening. Now i can feel them “coming on” and know what to do to stop them…usually. [more..]
• DIZZY - by EM - (Tue, Nov 17 2009)
  The first time I had this happen was about 4 years ago and I had insurance then and went to a doctor. He said it is caused by the inner ear and it will disappear on its own. [more..]
• vertigo - by trish - (Fri, Nov 13 2009)
  my first episode of vertigo was 2 years ago and lasted for 2 days.im presently having another which has lasted almost 2 weeks.the spinning has stopped but i am still experiencing dizziness when i look down or tilt my head back which gives me a whirling sensation in my head and leaves me offbalance for awhile. [more..]
• out of nowhere - by Dn - (Wed, Nov 11 2009)
  Monday of last week, I was sitting at my desk and felt a little dizzy. It went right away. Approximately two hours later, the room began to spin so badly that I could not get up and the nurse from our company had to be called to wheelchair me to the urgent care clinic at work. [more..]
• Happy Halloween… - by Christina - (Wed, Nov 11 2009)
  My first experience came on Halloween Night after we got off of the charter bus, I was walking up the hill and stared going sideways and couldn’t stop. [more..]
• BPPV is dreadful - by Werner - (Tue, Nov 10 2009)
  Great to have the Internet. Not so great to be having BPPV. My first attack happened about 3 years ago and the last one about 3 months ago. Today, I am sitting on the computer and hope that the present attack will soon be over. [more..]
• Straingest thing ever experienced - by J.D. - (Tue, Nov 03 2009)
  4 days ago I was standing in a grocery store and suddenly felt very dizzy, and slightly queasy. This went on for about 15 min.and I continued to have mile episodes off and on for the next 2 days. Yesterday morning as I got out of bed I was very dizzy and this came and went all day to varying degrees along with the nausea. [more..]