BPPV / vertigo , feel like its coming on , any advice

[dizzycatdance2]

Hi
I had a bad attack of this two weeks ago.

Laid my up in bed , not moving for nearly 4 days, nausea / spinning the works. Time off work.

I've been busy today and feel like its coming back.

What do I do for the best ???

Lie down now and keep still ?
Remain up right ?

Hang from the BL**DY ceiling !!! Aaergghhh !

I just don't want to make it worse .

The prospect of another bad attack fills me with dread and I'm loathed to take more time off work.

Any ideas ??? Tia

I can second the Epley manoeuvre . I did it myself after dr suggested I come back and he’d do it when I was less sick to avoid me vomiting on his floor I thought how can this work but it did . Did it a couple of times and went it really works. Horrible feelin you have my sympathies :-)

@dizzycatdance2 - apt user name, no i dont have any problems with looking up down (normally, apart from when i did the Foster manoeuvre) i get the room spinning when i move too quickly

i was also walking down the road and nearly fell over when i had a dizzy, but thats only happened once

its so nice to talk about this with other people who get it , like you say most people think you are making a fuss over nothing

I have Labyrinthitis and use Prochlorperazine. I get it on prescription and take one the second I feel it coming on. If I catch it quick enough I can head off an episode. The worst feeling is waking up in the night with it in full swing, that's when I know I am going to be bedridden for at least the next 24 hours. It comes on with stress and/or broken sleep which is great considering I have small kids and I get a huge dose of both!!!! It's a bitch but the pills make it slightly easier to manage. Hope you get some relief soon.

This is so interesting. Like PP it’s interesting to hear from others with similar ENT issues. I’d second getting an ENT referral where possible, as originally my GP thought I had BPPV, but after a real rigmarole - 18 months of referrals, tests, an MRI, etc I was diagnosed with something else.

I don’t think others who haven’t experienced it understand the debilitating nature of sudden onset vertigo, or the permanent stress of not know when it might happen.

I really hope the sturgeon helps OP & you manage to get the epley manoeuvre & it works for you.

Its awful, I just had to cancel any plans I had when it started. I've missed a wedding because I woke up with an attack in full swing. There's no 'powering through'. For me it was worse when I moved my head in any direction so I'd have to just prop my head up with cushions and find some mindless TV to watch and just stare straight ahead until it settled a bit. In between 'attacks' if I lay down completely flat I would go dizzy for a few minutes.

I take motion sickness tablets. Allergies trigger it for me, I have not felt nausea, or the severe problems people are describing thankfully, just so dizzy I would fall back if trying to get up or down.

They do say you need to do the Epley more than once sometimes?

Full blown attack failed to appear, thankfully.

Thanks for all the good advice. I'll keep some sturgeon at work just in case.

That’s great news, keeping my fingers crossed for you, vertigo is so awful.

That's a relief dizzycat how did yours develop, did it start as mild vertigo and suddenly one day BAM REALLY BAD VERTIGO?
I developed mild vertigo a few years ago then a few days ago had a couldn't-walk-without-propping-myself-up-against-the-wall episode. It seems to have passed now.

I've always been sensitive to spinning round, as a teenager I felt such a wimp , could never stand the waltsers at the fair, would want to throw up afterwards.

No real problems until about 15 years ago , just woke up and couldn't turn my head / room spinning/ nausea.

Passed in a few days.

Then every so often I'd get milder attacks.

Would need to keep my head really ,really still but could function, just.

Then the attack last week was vile. 4 days just unable to function at all, throwing up, slightest movement = "washing machine syndrome"

Hope none of us get any more attacks.