Vertigo

[Jemisa]

I've been suffering with giddy spells they come & go, But this week they came back 10 times worse, when I got up in the morning my head was spinning as if I was on a non-stop roundabout, I couldn't walk I just fell over. I came out in a cold sweat and was wretching Oooo I felt soo ill. I had some Stemetil tabs & took 2, being as I couldn't walk my hubby phoned the doc for a home vist. 2 hours later the doc phoned to say there was nothing immediate he could do & to carry on taking the tabs, & see him if no better in 3 days. I've carried on with the tabs & do feel better but still when I get up the world is spinning. It takes most of the day to ease off.
What I'd like to ask has anyone out there suffered like this? how long before things are right again, Its like being travel sick all day, I can't do anything without swaying and nearly falling over. Its horrible, can anyone give me some hope.
J

[jason.p]

You've described exactly the symptoms I get maybe once or twice a year. These episodes last for no longer than twelve hours, but as you say are totally disabilitating. I don't take anything for it at the moment and haven't had any medical advice so far. I have noticed that once or twice I develope a cold soon after.
I do suffer from travel sickness, and have wondered if this is another form of it. As you say the symptoms are very similar.

[Sqad]

Not nearly enough description to hazard a diagnosis:

1) How old are you?
2) Are you taking any tablets other than Stemetil?
3) How long do the attacks last.........seconds, minutes or longer.
4) Do you get any ear symptoms with the attacks, ringing in the ears, fullness in the ears or deafness?

These questions need answering.

[Eve]

I was going to ask the same as Sqad as I have similar problems but as I have menieres disease. Various things can cause vertigo though.

[DEN53]

Jemisa - this sounds very much like a migraine - they come in various forms, more commonly with the flashing lights in one eye. I suffer the dizzy kind of migraine - it comes on from nowhere, the room is spinning and can last all day.

[Sqad]

DEN, my darling......Are you asking me to entertain a diagnosis of migraine, in the absence of headaches?

[DEN53]

Sqad - when I get the dizzy migraine attack it is not accompanied by a headache at the time only when the dizzy feeling has subsided.

I was just offering another solution as to what it could be.

[Sqad]

DEN.....LOL...you know you can't be annoyed with me....LOL

[DEN53]

Sqad - as I was not chosen to be Salla's replacement - I am heartbroken (:o (

[redman41]

You two should have been in the Hitchcock Film 'Vertigo' along with Jimmy Stewart !! lol

[Sqad]

Well my love it would have the perfect combination, but "rat up the drainpipe"........that did it and one must remember that ummmm, the new locum for salla is ill equipped and inexperienced in an area that you would excel..........in simple terms my darling........."you blew it"

[Sqad]

red....LOL....these women have to learn.

[DEN53]

You wish I had Sqad

[Sqad]

DEN.....LOL.......LOL.....LOl........much more hilarious than the Polar Bears and Seals...........LOL LOL LOL

[Jemisa]

Well folks I've been to the docs today, he listened carefully to what I had to say, took my blood pressure (164/70) looked in my ears, had to follow the finger test, Then said because it was going on quite a time he'd like me to see a Neurologist & would get me an appt'. Also to take 150g of low dose Aspirin carry on with the Stemetil & see him nx Wed.

I do feel a bit better but would not venture out on my own. It makes me quit reluctant to go to bed because as soon as I lie down someone pushes that damn roundabout, I just lie there clinging on to the mattress.

Sqad... I.m a IDD, have been for 25 years. I take 1 Bendroflumethiazide 2.5mg daily + 1 Atenolol 100mg daily. No ringing in the ears, The attacks last all day without Stemetil, but I'm a lot better while taking them except on getting up, or looking up or bending down.
I'm just over 60.

J.

[Sqad]

jemisa.

First things first...it is NOT a brain tumour.

My money would go on Meniere's Disease.

As a very rank outsider.....Vertebro-basilar insufficiency.

Good luck, keep taking the Stemetil and let us know what the Neurologist says.

[Jemisa]

Thanks for that Sqad, yes I think you may be right Meniers Desease fits all my symptoms (I Googled it) as I sit here now I'm fighting thr keyboard the letters keep spinning off, I've got decorations to put up today Gawd knows how.......
J

[Compostella]

Hmmmmmmmmm

Is anyone thinking hypochondriac?

Jemisa, I mean this with all sincerity, don't you think you need to stop Googling things and occupy your mind a bit more?