Two Days Quiet and Spinning
It’s been two days and I’ve been quiet online at least. I’ve had that feeling in my head again. That spinning, nauseous rattling almost. I feel the pressure, lie down and then the world starts spinning. But only when I lay my head to the one side. Welcome to the world of positional vertigo.
It comes and goes and there really is nothing I could do for it short of surgery. That isn’t going to happen. I’ve been given motion sickness medicine but it doesn’t help. So I don’t take it anymore. Besides, I don’t just get it from riding in a car. But when the symptoms do come on full force, I find it difficult to do much. I think it’s more psyhological at that point.
Check out more on Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV). That’s what it is. My ear rocks! Or rather I have ear rocks. It isn’t such a bad case this time. Last time it lasted almost two weeks! A spinning wonderful two weeks!
It only seems to happen when I get a cold or stuffed up head. Maybe it’s the migraines that I infrequently have gotten. And it seems that the other day when, in the middle of the night, I rolled over and was sleeping on my back. Somehow that must have triggered it. That’s the only thing I can think of this time. Last time, I had a really bad stuffed up head and was trying to fight it naturally. Then all of a sudden I started feeling the spinning. Oh a crazy crazy world it is.
I’ve found it best to just let the world spin and then deal with it. I sleep with my head slightly propped up. This time at least when I look down it isn’t doing it (yet?). My last episode was really bad because it didn’t matter whether I looked up or down, I still felt dizzy.
I often think back to when I could have started experiencing these symptoms (because it usually starts with a head trauma but I can’t remember any major head trauma). I remember this all started after I had my first child. I had a problem pregnancy with her. I had gone into seizures so I am thinking that when that happened it shook something loose or started the problem.
So there we are. The last 13 years I have spent with this problem. At least now I am used to it.
