I can’t navigate after inner ear damage!
Sudden inner ear damage can cause severe symptoms affecting balance and orientation. Those affected may experience disorientation, even in familiar places, due to conflicting input from their inner ear and visual cues. Recovery can occur over time, but patients often become reliant on visual landmarks to navigate and must exercise caution in unfamiliar environments.
Tips for Preventing BPPV during Retina Surgery
“I have used your half summersault maneuver with success in the past. I know how to do it and it works well. I am worried about upcoming retina surgery. Do you have any advice for the time I might not be able to move my head in the half summersault maneuver? The doctor has said…
Can mild dizziness turn into severe vertigo?
This week I spent 2 days in the hospital due to BPPV. I had a pronounced bilateral presentation. I feel good now via Epley, Hall Pike, supine roll. For years I have been very sensitive to carnival rides, exiting a dentist chair, getting up too fast following sit-ups. I wrote this all off as “normal.”…
The Fear of Vertigo is Worse than the Disease
Your first attack of vertigo is often terrifying. The feeling is so very alien. Your body feels out of control, and it can be impossible to focus or hold yourself up. Many people think they are about to die or that they are having a stroke. After the spinning stops it leaves you with the…
Drinks: Coffee, Alcohol and Vertigo
Common dietary advice for vertigo sufferers often calls for restrictions not just for what you eat, but also what you drink. Alcohol is often singled out as particularly likely to cause dizziness. Information sources frequently suggest that you should also avoid caffeine if you suffer from dizziness, including coffee, tea, and caffeinated soft drinks. As…
Vitamins, minerals, and vertigo
It has long been known that diet can affect some vertigo disorders. Vitamins and minerals can help in some conditions but may not do much in other dizziness disorders. This article will break down some of the key categories of dizziness and how they respond to dietary treatments. BPPV (Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) is the…
Foods, supplements and vertigo: Part 1
If you do an AI search on foods to embrace or avoid for vertigo, you will get a long list of suggestions. We are told to stay hydrated, avoid salt, take calcium, magnesium or vitamin D, and to avoid caffeine and alcohol, just for starters. Some lists have dozens of do’s and don’ts. Have people…
Vertigo, headaches and palpitations
A reader writes in with a group of puzzling symptoms: After a lifetime of excellent balance, she experienced slight dizziness and instability that gradually worsened over a few weeks. There was also a low, deeply vibratory sound in the right ear. This was followed by severe vertigo for which weeks were spent in bed. She…
Rocking vertigo and PMDD
A reader writes: I have a general sensation that I am on a boat. It is the worst in the morning and I am finding that I have difficulty walking straight and really have to concentrate on keeping my balance during the first hour of the day. Rocking vertigo is a feeling of continuous up-and-down,…
Is my vertigo Meniere’s?
(My doctor) says I have beginning of Meniere’s but I truly don’t believe so. I only have one symptom, vertigo, no loss of hearing or ringing at time of the episode. My vertigo comes on when my left ear is plugged and feels full of fluid due to allergies, (which I always have). Usually it…
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