Experiencing Extreme dizziness & Vertigo?!

harleygz, Bless you. Vertigo is awful! I've battled it for about 15 years...off and on. My flareups are caused by sinus & migraine headaches. I take the meclizine/antivert immediately and lie down. Usually I can get relief in 3-4 days. The onset of the 1st bout of it was the worst with vomiting and the room spinning. It took it about 3 months to completely go away the first time. If I leaned over or moved my head to quickly, I would go into another spin. It was very hard. I know people that go to chiropractors and get much relief from vertigo. Stress is also a trigger for vertigo. I pray you get relief soon. I empathize and I care.

Thank you for your kind words & hope. Medical Conditions just plan suck. I’m sorry you had to endure this experience as well!

I have BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) occasionally, not as often as I used to because I can feel it coming on and take steps to fix it quickly. Sometimes I just look up or move my head wrong or too quickly, and sometimes I just wake up with it.
Treating the symptoms with meds does not fix the vertigo. Ask your physician to refer you to a physical therapist who specializes in BPPV caused by displacement of ear crystals in the ear. You should get instant relief if the maneuver is done correctly. You will need to avoid turning your head or moving it too quickly for a few days to allow the crystals to settle down. I put up with the vertigo for a year until I found an ENT and physical therapist to help me. It has not been a permanent fix for me because it is caused by position changes, but as I said I now can tell when it is coming on, and it does not happen as often during the past two years. I hope this helps because it can be totally debilitating.

A friend recently remarked that a few doses of Valium eradicated his vertigo. Here is a link discussing the effect of Valium-related medications on vertigo. Hope this helps!

The link is not there. Please repost

My sympathies. Did your Primary Care doc refer you to a ENT? If not, please go to one and get a full work up. Vertigo is a symptom not a disease and you need to get a diagnosis. I am a long term sufferer of Meniere’s Disease (supposedly excess fluid in the ear), have dreadful vertigo, tinnitus, loss of hearing. In addition to the meds for vertigo, I have to take a diuretic and cut down on salt drastically, no alcohol or coffee. The disease has to be addressed, not just the vertigo. Good luck!

I have had cervical vertigo since 2007. The only med that allowed me to just walk and not live life on the couch is Valium, at least 5mg am and PM. I have facet issues that were fused by 2007, C34-C56. I woke from the last fusion with cervical vertigo. It is not from ear problems
My pain management doctor just tried nerve blocks on my C23 facet joint and I don't have the dizziness and nausea! Regular scans showed nothing, it wasn't till I had a flexion x-ray, 6 views that showed what happens when I move my neck

I had an episode last March it lasted 4 days in hospital with vomiting and so dizzy I couldn’t open my eys. I was finally diagnosed with Labyrinthitis. Did therapy for 6?weeks to train my brain differently. It helped a little but I still feel like I’m getting off a ride almost a year later

Currently I am hearing of more and more people living near me, experiencing vertigo. We are having an extremely high pollen count this year and they are ,like me very congested if they spend time outdoors. My vertigo was diagnosed several years ago as VESTIBULAR MIGRAINE which gets aggravated by my allergies. . It took 5 ENTS and a neurologist to figure it out. Now many medical professionals are more acquainted with this diagnosis. Since following the lifestyle and diet info for this, I am much much better. I have suffered allergies all my life and got shots and drops etc, but the vertigo didn't start until pollen counts really started to zoom in 2014. Also I was much older and more susceptible as adult onset allergies can come on strong. I also take magnesium glycanate. Use tylenol, afrin and omnaris to fend off attacks. So if it's not BPPV or Menieres, or Labyrhythisis or etc, check it out. Hope this helps.

I was diagnosed with vertigo and dizziness. They told me it was an ear imbalance and had me go to a vertigo therapist. After a couple of weeks I stopped as I found it useless. Out of the therapy I have had no change. I had to talk to a neurologist and all he did was test me for dementia. I did that twice. Once a year. After I did better the second time I was tested I told him I didn’t need it.
Come to find out it was determined to come from the psychiatric meds I was on. It was caused by medication. I switched to different medications but I stopped trying to “fix it “ .
That was years ago and I still am living with vertigo. It’s on my medical chart that I have vertigo and had to learn to live with it. I actually had to walk around with a cane to “catch me” from falling down. It keeps me from falling but the vertigo never left me so I’m under the impression that it would never go away.
It has left me with the inability to hear well. As a result it has left me unable to walk around without that cane . My hearing aids slipped down the stems around my ears due to the slippery stems. I haven’t worn them in over a year even though Medicare pays for them.