Vertigo

I thought vertigo was only when a person stands up and is immediately dizzy? Mine comes on in the mornings and increases during the day, but only when I am standing up, not sitting/lying down. It starts again, mildly, the next morning and increases during the day which is why I spend a lot of time sitting as then I am not dizzy (woozy). It has become debilitating and is the contributing factor in causing me to become increasingly housebound. I am 75 and this wooziness when standing has been increasing over the past 2 years, I was diagnosed by a neurologist as having peripheral neuropathy ( numb, tingling feet, moving up legs and into fingers. Sound familiar to anyone?

Well -- we seem to have the same problems and a similar history. My PT had been working on terrible tension on my neck which caused brain fog. He has gotten rid of the brain fog, but dizziness is still there and we will be working on the eye problem next week. I will get back to you with any information you can use.... I spend too much time on my computer....am relentlessly right handed and have been favoring the right side of my body and ignoring the left hand side. He said that I have to make a deliberate attempt to use the left side (also, i use a cpap machine which makes it difficult to turn over in bed so I am always in one position which doesn't help). We are looking into eye glasses, and he may also do some vestibular PT on my eyes. So to sum it up,
1. My neck was so frozen from working on computer and lack of movement and that caused the brain fog. He has loosened it up and I will have some exercises to keep it loosened up. I also raised my computer and now will get up every hour or so, walk around and move my neck.
2.. We will try vestibular pt for my eyes, possibly get glasses, but he thinks that if I start using my left side I might get the eyes to work together.
Stay tuned......I will report back after next wednesday when I have my next PT session... My PN has gone past my knees and I will also be working on my balance..... I hope this helps you as much as it has, so far, helped me..... Vertigo is miserable -- i can live with the numb legs, but the lack of balance and perpetual dizziness is awful... Let's hope he finds what will work == FOR BOTH OF US...... gloria

incidentally, I am 93 years old, PN began with cancer treatments in 2001 , dizziness and brain fog forthe past two years. Other therapist did not take this seriously.... I am very optimistic at the moment and hope that it will help you as well.....gloria

I am sorry to hear of your problems.... i will let you know what my PT does about the eye imbalance...........Possibly glasses and eye exercises..... I am feeling a lot better after brain fog has gone..... stay tuned....

@lisabeans I found this article in the newsletter from our local university hospital and I thought you might find it interesting.
https://www.uchealth.org/today/dizziness-vs-vertigo-treatments-cures-physical-therapy/?
Have you found a way to treat your vertigo?

Just my two cents...
I don't have an auto-immune disease (my wife does - another story), but I have fought dizziness/vertigo for several years now. This article explains the difference between dizziness and vertigo as it was explained to me.
I suffered whiplash back in 1980, plagued me with excrutiating ice-pick headaches for 30 years until my most recent PT figured it out - pinched nerve in C1. Headaches are under control, but vertigo started after that (I am of the opinion that any treament done to us with our permission may have unknown concequences, and if so, then we deal with those). I continued with this PT for vertigo - successfully, with essentially the same treatment - neck exercises. I do them every day, takes a couple minutes, and have not had vertigo for a few years. Dizziness became an issue more recently - seems my eyes do not quite point together, and have been worsening. Local opthamologist and optometrist thought nothing of it, but I went to a neuro-opthomologist who thought a lot of it. Now I wear slightly prismed glasses - no more dizziness!
I hope this rambling gives some of you some hope and encouragement. Good luck to you all..

Gregv

Thank you. Helpful in trying to understand what is going on in my body. The wooziness develops as the day progresses. It is non-existent when I am sitting or lying down but returns quickly when I stand up after being seated. It is very debilitating.

Web MD article on remedies for vertigo, including the Epley Maneuver. They say you can do this on your own, but it is really too hard for me. I need a therapist to do it to me.

But to whatever extent I did some of it, I could tell that it helped.
https://www.webmd.com/brain/remedies-vertigo
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here's a You Tube video with a doctor of physical therapy doing the Epley Maneuver.

She writes:

"the Epley Maneuver should be performed by a health professional. I do NOT recommend doing it on your own or having someone else who has never performed it before perform to perform it on you."

That supports my own experience with it.

The Epley maneuver is a therapy for BPPV, which is the most common form of vertigo. If you have BPPV, vertigo will be provoked by turning your head such as on the pillow when you first wake up. My physical therapists had encouraged me to do the Epley maneuver myself. However, that landed me in the ER once due to incessant vomiting. Apparently, I displaced inner ear crystals into a lateral inner ear canal. I now only let a PT perform the Epley maneuver.

THANK YOU FOR THIS INFORMATION. I have a similar problem and am looking for a neuro ophthalmologist because i think I do need prism glasses.