Dizziness & Vertigo Support Group

The ENT flat out told me he didn't think drugs would help me. That was without me even mentioning them. I'd love to know how he knows without me trying them. I guess we'll see what the results of the ENG say and take it from there.

5 months, my brakes on my mt bike went out on a mountain. some kid found me woke up in ambulance. 11 broken bones ,collapsed lung, just had metal plate put in my arm.
sounds crappy but the worst par is the vertigo!!!!!!! everything is healing except vert.
I am a perfectionist and family man it is very hard chasing my 6yr old daughter around with my vertigo,
buy my wife and daughter are the only reason i want to be here. thank god for my family.

about the drugs:
xanax and valium are both benzodiazepines.
They are in the same class of drugs but not the exact same drug.

They slow down the incorrect messages you may be getting from a bad ear. Typically the dose for vertigo is lower than a dose that would make someone sleepy. Some vertigo patients feel *more awake* on medication because they are no longer experiencing the fatigue that comes with dizziness.

Hi all,

I am a newbie here, but definitely not a newbie to dizziness and vertigo. I have been having dizziness/unsteady gait for the last 16 years (long story which I may slowly share someday). But those were not vertiginous.

My first episode of vertigo was about 4 years ago. After almost a month of medication (I can't remember what they were) which didn't help, I finally had an apley maneuver performed by an ENT. The vertigo went off after that. In May this year, I had another round of vertigo attacks. This time, it lasted for almost 2 months. After lots of anxiety/depressive moods, 4 apley maneuvers and 2 sessions of myofascial therapy on my SCM (neck muscles). the vertigoes finally went off. All these while, and in between the vertigo episodes, I had my "usual" dizziness on and off and unsteady gait.

Then last wed morning, the vertigoes came to visit me again. I took stemetil once or twice per day, hoping that they would help. After the 2nd day, I started to feel daze/dizzy and really bad loss of balance especially when walking. Unable to contact my regular ENT (he was overseas for conference), I went to visit a neurologist as I also wanted to know the possibiity of me having some tumors in the brain etc (the usual panic reaction). He confirmed that there is nothing wrong with my brain after some physical examination and looking at MRI results which I had in 2005, and concluded that it is probably due to vestibular weakness (and he said it may not even be a case of BPPV, which the ENT had earlier said I might have). He prescribed Duxaril and Tebonin (Ginko Extract) which he said would help strengthen the vestibular organs. Also, advised me to do a simplified version of the Brandt Daroff exercise.
He told me that my grogginess/unsteadiness could be due to side effect of Stemetil.

I started taking the Duxaril and Tebonin, but still feel very daze and unsteady today. When I google Duxaril, it was stated that some adverse effects of Duxaril are insomnia, anxiety and DIZZINESS. I am very shocked that the neuro had prescribed a medicine that can cause dizziness, when my reason for visiting him is dizziness/vertigo. I wonder whether I should continue with the medicine.

Does anyone have any adverse experience of loss of balance/daze/grogginess/heavy ears with consumption of duxaril and/or stemetil ?

I am still wondering whether my symptoms of loss of balance etc, are due to the vertigo attacks, or from the medications.
Very confusing.

I am going 51 soon, and am almost certain that I am in peri (because I have many other peri symptoms).
I asked the neuro whether my vertigoes are related to peri, and he gave me a firm "NO".
I was quite disappointed, as I was hoping that if it is a peri symptom, the vertigoes will go off after post meno.
Now I am really very very worried that the vertigoes are here to stay.

Appreciate any advice on managing vertigoes/dizziness.

PS. I had tried BetaSerc before for vertigoes, but they are completely useless to me.

i fell 10 years ago and in one night my life changed,i didn't know what it was never heard of vertigo in my life thought it was just tired feeling or working to hard but then it got worse over and know its part of my everyday life 6 years i didn't know i had it past 4 i did,its like when i go the store i feel the room move the floor move and i get anxiety cause i am scared i am going to get of balance its embarrassing my family and friends don't understand it so they don't want to here all the time i feel like a big Bordon the bad part is its depressing me no one seems to understand the noise hurts me ringing and it does come and go lasting a few moments several times a day but when you get one episode you r not the same after that

Hi Theresa,

People who don't have it definitely don't understand it. You can come here and vent any time!!!!!

Laura

thank you laura i knew i need people that experience what i have