Has anyone had really bad vertigo?
I've had it over a week now, went to hospital on sat and was given some tablets but they haven't worked so am going back to docs today.
Have slight ear pain and tenderness behind top of nose so hoping it's just an infection.
So horrible though!
Yes yes indeed I have had this and mine lasted about 3 months you need to go and see your nurse practitioner or any doctor at your surgery and get some nasal spray vertigo is caused by a blockage of the nasal cavities it will take time. In the meantime take it very slowly and steady moving
It does get easier.
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Yes, persistent vertigo is horrible, natal! There are quite a few of us who've been here on forum for years sharing our experiences of this. Have you done a forum search using things like: vertigo, or vestibular neuritis? There is loads of good material that can turn up when you search for past forum discussions. There are many causes of vertigo, and many of us get over it fairly primptly
In my case, persistent sinusitis began to affect me in childhood and persistent vertigo started in my early 30s and has remained a problem I manage daily ever since. My lifestyle management & my lupus meds help me most to manage my predisposition to vertigo. In my case, the vertigo is due to the early onset arthritis in my cervical spine (spondylosis ) + an ear prop (vestibular neuritis...due to my version of SLE) complicated by persistent sinusitis. I'm now 62 and coping really well with my vertigo etc predisposition and managing to minimise it most of the time.
It sounds as if your GP is going through the usual protocol in your case. When you went to hospital, were you seen at A&E or at ENT. if vertigo & the sort of pain symptoms you're describing don't clear up with conservative management within, say, 3 weeks (basically 'rest', haha, and possibly antibiotics &/or travel sickness meds (stemetil) you probably should be referred to ENT for tests.
Do you have lupus? And have you been formally diagnosed? Are you seen regularly by rheumatology? Because the meds you're on need to be taken into consideration & your rheumy could be able to help you decide how to investigate your vertigo. Sometimes vertigo can be a side effect of meds.
Wishing you all the very best with this
Hope you'll let us know how you get on
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Do u ever bend over to get something and get dizzy and faint feeling. And everything starts to get dark?
Yes and my ent said after all the testing I have bilateral vestibular loss of not a complete loss it's a bare minimum I still have. I also shut my own head in doors
Vestibular Migraine or Migraine Associated Vertigo
Help and understanding
Please could you help with this?
