Ask the Doctor:  Vague dizziness after maneuvers

BPPV maneuvers got rid of my wife’s room spinning vertigo, but immediately after she now has vague non positional dizziness while standing and walking. From what I read, it could be something called residual dizziness caused by the brain changing how it interpreted signals from the affected ear. Supposedly some exercises with head and eyeContinue reading “Ask the Doctor:  Vague dizziness after maneuvers”

Canalith jam: a rare cause of BPPV

Rarely, maneuvers don’t seem to work, even though the vertigo seems to be BPPV.  The affected person is able to make spells happen by making head movements like lying down, rolling over or tipping the head up, but the particles seem to be stuck, unable to exit the ear.   Each time a maneuver is done,Continue reading “Canalith jam: a rare cause of BPPV”

H-BPPV and Entrapped Particles

Sometimes maneuvers for H-BPPV don’t seem to work, and this is especially true for the apogeotropic type, when the eyes seem to beat toward the ceiling when lying on your side.  It’s very rare to have this happen.  Most of the time, lying flat on your back until the dizziness stops and then doing oneContinue reading “H-BPPV and Entrapped Particles”