Has anybody had vertigo for weeks at the time with horrible headaches?

I have had Vertigo for 9 years on and off. Meds do not help. Check out Vertigo exercises on line.Physical thjerapy helps and they do get less and less plus even stop . They do come back but doing vertigo exercises helps. I go to to physical therapy solutions in Schaumburg they are really good.Good luck Bernie

@katie1229
I really hope you get answers from your ENT and neurologist. You may need a MRI of your head to see if it shows anything behind your symptoms.

What doctors prescribed all of the medications you were on? Were you told what was causing all of your symptoms and given official diagnoses before being prescribed the medications? Have you ever had a sleep study done by a pulmonologist?

I had daily headaches, dizziness and balance issues plus bladder control problems that were tied to my cervical spinal stenosis/spinal cord compression. Do you have any neck/shoulder pain?

Are you sure it is vertigo? My vestibular PT says there are 5 forms of dizziness.

There’s a lot you didn’t say about your condition so I will take some stabs at this since I have suffered with similar and found wonderful remedy. About the IC: First, there’s doctors that do a non-invasive procedure with DMSO where they put some medicine up into your “who-ha” (I think I started twice a week) and then went to once a week by six months and then stopped. It’s not painful. It’s just a little weird, but it healed the IC. However, the IC does not stay healed. If you don’t change what you put in your body. I had to reduce all acidic foods and drinks to a bare minimum and not jump a bunch of vitamins in my body first thing in the morning. I think when we get older, we lose the ability to tolerate the coffee, wine and tomato sauce. We did when we were younger. Also, your medicines will cause it and so I had to figure out how to take the essential medicines so that I didn’t irritate my bladder. These are all things under your control. You have to be willing to change your habits.
Regarding the vertigo: I get that too, and the remedy for that is also to look at your habits. Do you set, stand, lay down, with your head at a particular angle for too long? I find a lot of my friends who get vertigo when they are older like me in their late 60s are sitting with their head ata prolonged bad angle either looking at their phone or relaxing on the couch, leaning back in the lazy chair for most of the evening. Sometimes I wear a soft neck brace at night so my head stays at a proper angle while sleeping. The solution for my proximal vertigo is the Epley maneuver. I can do it by myself. I sit on my bed and drop my body to the pillow quickly, turn my head 90°. Then quickly left my upper body up to the sitting position, then quickly turn my head 90° to front facing, wait 45 seconds and repeat. I do that several times and it stops the vertigo. I have to do it a few days in a row, and then I stopped waking up with the vertigo. I started getting it because of my work and keeping my head pointed down working on my art for long hours. From what you said it does not sound like you have learned all about vertigo yet. Take some time and research vertigo and why it happens and how to fix it yourself(of course make sure you are sitting with good posture while you do this!). On top of this, my neck and shoulders are all glued together, and if I don’t attend to this with pain management and a therapist, the muscle muscles from my shoulder start pulling and tuggiing into my head. This again throws my head off kilter and causes vertigo. Vertigo happens when the crystals in your ears move around and get stuck in the wrong position. It happens when we’re older ALOT because our body mechanics are deteriorating and we are not paying attention.
Interesting thing is that on occasion I take Temazepam as well! I have periodically taken it for 35 years. I take a very small dose when I need to take it, but I learned a long time ago. I had edema and when I would get PMS I couldn’t sleep and it was horrible. The TamezePam is the only thing. Which gave me a gentle sleep and woke up, feeling refreshed. I agree with your pharmacist that all of those things you are taking are not good mixed up and that is causing your dizziness. I’m sure.
You didn’t mention if you do exercise! That is one way one medicine in itself that will help both your vertigo and your insomnia. I hate exercise, but it is a medicine that fixes both! When IYou didn’t mention if you do exercise! That is one way one medicine in itself that will help both your vertigo and you’re insomnia. I hate exercise, but it is a medicine that fixes both! When I exercise (which is. Every day an hour or two even walking counts) I sent her myself with good posture and I exhaust myself for good sleeping at night. We overlook this important FREE and healthy solution. A lot of doctors just get fed up with their patients because they think it’s obvious And they think that patients know and just don’t do the exercises. They just don’t wanna be bothered by humans who they think are overlooking the obvious. I applaud your pharmacist for telling you the obvious that all those medicines are going to make you dizzy. I have to take a muscle relaxer For my stuck neck and an opioid for my tailbone pain that can’t be fixed and then sometimes if I haven’t done exercise, I lay there in bed awake and have to take the temezapam to sleep. The medication itself gives me insomnia. It makes my mind very active. I have also returned to bioidentical hormone replacement therapy because that also works as a sleep aid. A lot of us get insomnia when we go into menopause because the hormones were a great sleep regulator. It sounds like your problem can be fixed with some habit changes. I hope this helps.!