Are vertigo and labyrinthitis the same thing?

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Woke up yesterday feeling very dizzy and nauseous, which got worse as the day went on and caused vomiting a couple of times. GP diagnosed vertigo caused by inner ear infection.
I've got no ear pain just the vertigo symptoms. Just given some sea sickness tablets to take but not been able to keep any down yet so don't know if they are going to help.
Reading on the internet labyrinthitis is mentioned alot - is it a different thing to vertigo or just another name for it.

I think they are the same thing, you poor thing it must be yuck.

Pretty sure they are the same thing.

DH gets labrinthitis, it sucks!

well vertigo is to do with benign matter in the labrynth so most prob the same thing. My Mum has had vertigo since christmas on and off :(

Yes, I think it's just a different way of describing the same thing. Travel sick tablets won't do the job in my experience - ask the GP to prescribe Stemetil en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prochlorperazine

You poor thing - I really feel for you. Try just lying very still for a while before you take the medication - I found that helped keep it down.

OP - please note that Stemetil is a powerful anti-psychotic drug with some nasty side effects. You ought to be aware of that before you think it's a cure.

DP was prescribed it for labyrinthitis and ended up preferring the vertigo.

Chaotica - I'm sure the OPs GP will explain that. The dose given for suppression of nausea is far smaller than the dose if it's used as an anti-psychotic. It's a very well established medication and can be used safely in the short term.

Your DP may have preferred the vertigo but I can assure you that on the third day of labyrinthitis (when I was so ill that my mother thought I was having a stroke and called the GP out to the house) it was an absolute life saver for me.

AFAIK Labyrinthitis is an inner ear virus, which causes the symptom vertigo.

Vertigo is a feeling of general nausea and dizzyness, which can be caused by any number of different things.

I know, because I had vertigo (horrible, so if you are having it, I deeply sympathise) and was found to have probably got labyrinthitis (but they couldn't tell, because it's in the inner ear).

thankfully it went away after about six months, and it wasn't the more serious meliers diseas, which is a lifelong thing causing vertigo.

Hope that helps?

Thanks for all your replies.
Feeling a bit better now, but still a bit dizzy.
Hopefully I'm on the mend. Not a pleasant experience!