Vertigo....day 4.

[sleeperhit]

I've been experiencing Vertigo for 4 days straight now...

At first it was weird but interesting.

Then it started to freak me the hell out.

Now I'm beginning to get use to it. Which freaks me out even more.


All information I find online says that it can last for weeks to months. Some even years....
I wouldn't wish this on the worst of my enemies.

[Stuie]

My wife had this problem also after a car wreck and it got bad. Honestly she was over it in a couple weeks after she went to a Chiropractor. Something about something not being lined up in her inner ear and after a few adjustments. It fell back into place and she was fine.

[twoapplesplease]

It can happen more often with people who experiance alot of vibration in thers daily lives(or you get hit by a car).Has to do with tiny hairs in the inner ear that help control balance.Nomaly some of these hairs break off and regrow but it takes awhile for the ones that break off to get absobed or flushed out threw one of the two entry points to the inner ear.what happens is that the broken off hairs are sort off just floating around in there and bump into the ones that are still funktioning for balance or they get stuck to them or they can form a tiny little hair ball and bounce around in there.
Alot of people that do alot of downhill mountin bickinng will get this form of vertigo.
I'll get this to some degree in the winter if the trails get really hard and icy and my foot needs to ride the break alot.Sending huge amounts of vibration to my bones.
Does it seem to happen more if you lean to one side or the other like if your laying in bed and can only lay on one side because if you lay on the otherside the vertigo is too intense?

[sleeperhit]

Nope, not that Ive noticed. It is pretty severe no matter which direction I am facing or look.

I fell over today just standing still.
And walking in a straight line is now very difficult.

I've been hearing this about the hairs in the inner ear quite a bit now.
Everyone seems to say the same thing about it. That it all depends on the individual in regards to the time it takes to recover.

Your descriptions of how this can happen regarding the inner ear hairs can explain the main causes of long term Vertigo, which are stroke, trauma to the head, cerebral internal bleeding and ear infections. None of which I have.

Although I do have a job that can put me in an environment where there are vibrations for 10+ hours at a time.

All I know is that this...is bad.
It's like I just stepped on the edge of a large building with no notice of it being the edge, only....that feeling doesn't go away. And without the rush. Just the dizzy unbalanced part of it.

If this isn't gone by tomorrow after I wake up, I'm going to the doctor.

[twoapplesplease]

I bet you work in some kind of factory then.The constant small wavelength of whatever vibration is made in your factory is probly it.Its affecting just certain areas of the inner ear effectivly breaking down all hairs that are supposed to react to that wavelength over time.You'll need to go to the doc and get a recomended 2 weeks off of work.Or manditory work far away from the machines.

I've worked in many factorys and lowd environments and my hearing is bad and get vertigo from it some times.I tend to know when I'm gonna get some vertigo before hand because my left ear starts to rattle at certain tone sounds like I got a kazoo in my ear and someones trying to talk through it.

Sadly I don't think most factorys test there sound levels and provide the right protection.Ear plugs are usually not enuff.I wish I would have known this or wish factorys took better measures to make sure there workers are protected.Its not that they don't care they just don't know.Even though ear plugs protect you from the sounds you can hear There are sounds out of the human range that can also be harmfull.

[sleeperhit]

nope, no factory.
I work for a major retail company.
I do networking, wiring and all functionality within all the stores.
Including alarms. Which can get very loud. But the vibrations I was talking about were from different type of trucks. Like scissor lifts and what not.

I also fly a lot to different locations for work.
If I am not better by the end of next week then the boss' are making me take some time off work.
Hope it's gone by tomorrow, but we'll see.

[sportsfan6216]

I'm really sorry man, that shit sucks. My ex got vertigo after a flight in an air force tanker like freshman or sophomore year in high school. We're now juniors in college and she has just gotten over it. It mostly prevented her from doing athletics which were like her life.

Not a fun deal.