[HippieKai]

This is the fourth time within a year!
It's not too bad this time but it still makes me look drunk once in a while when i have an...what should i call it..."episode"..."attack"...whatever. I'm sick of docters not knowing what the F is up so i'm just dealing with it, in fact i'm starting to get used to it.
kai-

 

[-dustin]

my mom thought she had vertigo. at least, that's what the doctors told her multiple times.

till they found it was actually a brain tumor.

 

[McT]

What exactly IS vertigo? I problem with your middle ear?

 

[Crash_Tested]

Its when you get dizzy spells and the the doc can't figure it out, so he tells you that you have vertigo.

 

[Crash_Tested]

sorry to "hear" that HippieKai. It can be scary - the unknown. Did you have a full battery of test done?

 

[Ciaran]

When do the episodes occur? At specefic times, like morning, night, etc? After doing a certain thing... sitting? after standing up fast, etc? Sounds a bit like something I dealt with a few years back.

 

[-dustin]

as a referance, my mom's episodes would be tripped when she turned to her right quickly. when she first got it, it would hit when she was laying in bed. we thought it was a 24hr bug, 'cause she'd puke a few times. but the nausea would last, and whenever she'd turn to her right, it'd hit. as time progressed, episodes would occur more frequently. no puking, just really, really dizzy.

 

[Echo]

Hola!

 

[johnbryanpeters]

I had it for a year or so after an OTB face plant on pavement with no helmet in 1991. It still hovers in the background.

Do you have any history of head injury?

J

 

[DRB]

This is the fourth time within a year!
It's not too bad this time but it still makes me look drunk once in a while when i have an...what should i call it..."episode"..."attack"...whatever. I'm sick of docters not knowing what the F is up so i'm just dealing with it, in fact i'm starting to get used to it.
kai-

My mom had some pretty severe episodes of vertigo last year. To the point she would throw up. It was very scary for her and us. It would strike her suddenly and last for a few hours.

Have you had a hearing test? These episodes concided with her hearing going bad in one of her ears. She has worn hearing aids forever but all of a sudden the hearing in one of her ears basically went away completely.

Long story short she ended up going to a doctor that was also a Navy flight surgeon in the Reserves, so vertigo was something he was very familar with. He ran her thru a series of tests He put her on steriods for three weeks and it went away and hasn't come back.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dizzinessandvertigo.html has a ton of information on causes, symptoms and treatments.

 

[JMAC]

This is the fourth time within a year!
It's not too bad this time but it still makes me look drunk once in a while when i have an...what should i call it..."episode"..."attack"...whatever. I'm sick of docters not knowing what the F is up so i'm just dealing with it, in fact i'm starting to get used to it.
kai-

My grandfather has exactly that and the docs where useless about it to. However, he did dome research online and found somehting that he had, I think, a physio perform on him. According to him it really helped and he could even walk for along time, now he seems rather normal but still get dizzy spells, not very often though.

 

[Wingnut]

My wife has had "vertigo" for three years now. Sounds simmilar to what you have Kai. No conclusive results from any test, be it MRI, CT, Audio, brainstem activity.... She's had the full-meal-deal of testing and all we know is what it isn't.

 

[MMike]

You can be like Liza Minelli in Arrested Development.

(I've had it too and it's a pain in the arse....)

 

[Curb Hucker]

in a place called vertigo.....

 

[HippieKai]

only test i have not had done is an MRI.

I think has been keeping me up lately too. I can't fall asleep because i will start to spin or when i am asleep i spin in my sleep and it wakes me up.

i can turn, sit, lay down, or sometimes just turn my head and it happens.

 

[HippieKai]

till they found it was actually a brain tumor.

don't freak me out like that man!
did they fix her up or what?

 

[-BB-]

Have you had a hearing test? These episodes concided with her hearing going bad in one of her ears. She has worn hearing aids forever but all of a sudden the hearing in one of her ears basically went away completely.

Long story short she ended up going to a doctor that was also a Navy flight surgeon in the Reserves, so vertigo was something he was very familar with. He ran her thru a series of tests He put her on steriods for three weeks and it went away and hasn't come back.

http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/dizzinessandvertigo.html has a ton of information on causes, symptoms and treatments.

Did her hearing come back?

 

[Crash_Tested]

don't freak me out like that man!
did they fix her up or what?

He's buying her a christmas present if that helps