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Just wanted to flag this up for people. My MAV wasn't correctly diagnosed and I ended up having an inner ear operation that basically took me a year to recover from! For your mild interest physiotherapy (strengthening core neck balance muscles) made the biggest difference to my vertigo - but I also have mild neck damage.
Wow, that has happened to me a few times now, thank you for sharing! I was treated for an inner ear infection the first time, but since then it has happened with actual migraine pain.
Sounds familiar! I know of other migraineurs with MAV who get the vertigo and dizziness at different times to the migraine, mine never coincided with the migraine which I think made it harder to diagnose. Also got Tinnitus too, which still rears its ugly head...
good article!
The DM never get it right: 'this is a migraine that doesn't cause headache'...wrong. Sometimes it does, sometimes it doesn't.
I'm a bit puzzled at the consultants comment that MAV treatment is straightforward! Anything but in my 30+ years experience of having vertigo! I see he's promoting the use of pizotifen. Interesting.
hi Saffronbread, I meant to add yesterday that I have a wii and will look at the balance exercises thank you T.
Fab...I think they recommend the skiing one (I think downhill slalom), and the snowball one. Though they are probably all good. I find the steps good in helping my co-ordination and balance. 
saffron bread --how ya doing, havn't seen you on here for a while.? it was so kind of you to send me all the info the past weeks. As yet i am no further, however i am writing everything down for reference in the future , i have had bad headaches for 2 days followed by vertigo the last two weeks with a break of 5 day inbetween, noted that i have had bad vertigo in the past without a headache but the verigo after the 2 days head ache is milder ,but not comfortablw which you understand. this appears to be MAV to me from what I have read , Hope you are feeling ok Tx
This is an awful story, Tina but entirely feasible that it caused your vertigo. I suffered a terrible neck after my arm was twisted behind my back at 21 years old and a nerve was trapped in the thoracic region. I then had blinding headaches and was diagnosed with migraine by a consultant in my thirties. Since that attack I have had undisguised vertigo and in hot weather feel as if I am falling over. When I worked in an osteopaths I had a lot of treatment with cracking of my neck. Looking back all it seemed to do was to give me worse heads and further incidence of vertigo. I must say the daily beta blockers do cut down the severity of migraine and also help with vertigo. I haven't tried to switch as it is so important to feel you aren't falling over.
Oh, that is interesting. I've recently had three dizzy episodes, which I assumed were inner ear congestion or whatever. It might be migraine, then? Hmmm. One more way for migraine to attack me!!! Damn it's eyes.
re post from victoria s I found it interesting that you mentioned physiotherapy, and would appreciate more information , some years ago I went to my doctor at the time with a very stiff neck, he went behind be and by surprise yanked my neck saying this was the cure ! I was on my way to manchester after my appointment and unfortunetly my neck fell to one side on the way and I had to go to the Royal infirmary in great pain-- the doctors there said that my doctor had ripped every muscle in my neck and i had to be fitted with a collar. I asked a specialist in vertigo if this could have caused a problem and he said no but... I have often wondered if this contributes to the fact i suffer from vertigo and maybe migraine. I used to have migraine years ago and was given a beta blocker for another reason and was migraine free and headache free for the time i was taking them. I researched pizotifen on the net and it appears that propanolol [beta blocker] has less side effects than pizotifen. Thank you for any further info on physiotherapy.
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Botox has given me daily migraine. I wasn't told this could happen
