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Do you get dizzy from heights?

Dizziness sometimes crops up in people with perfectly normal balance systems.  Motion sickness is an example of this, but there are other forms, too.  Your inner ears constantly detect whether or not your head is moving, but your eyes also do this.  As you turn your head, your eyes move to counter-balance the head movement,Continue reading “Do you get dizzy from heights?”

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”

Why is HBPPV such a problem?

Here’s a photograph of the cupula of a mouse, taken by Dr. Olivia Kalmanson at the University of Colorado. The cupula looks dark green because it’s transparent, so the background can be seen right through it. To make it easier to see, we’ve piled otoconia, the gravity sensor’s crystals, on the middle of it. TheyContinue reading “Why is HBPPV such a problem?”