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[sweetee2]

I've had this twice and the dr. Gave me benadryl.  You can buy this over the counter.

[GCR18]

I had it once.  There was no doubt in my mind it was vertigo.  The room was spinning.  Went to the Dr, she confirmed.

[DowntonAbbey]

Yes very bad after my head injury almost 14 years ago, please have her see a doctor and it is so easy to fall and get sick to your stomach.  PIease keep us updated as it can be many things casuing that.

[susielong]

becca lou, you are so right, go to the ER. By the time you make an appt. and get to the Dr. the vertigo may be gone. The test they will do at that time, if you aren't having vertigo, won't do a thing at all. I had very severe vertigo, vomiting, room spinning a 100 miles a minute, etc. They said it can be mild to severe. You can't predict when it's going to hit you, so that's the hard part if you're affected with it. I have had it hit me after being outside looking up cleaning off cobwebs outside, , which is not good to do, then going to the garden bending over to pick tomatoes, coming back up and bam, it hit. So you just never know what will set it off. I hate that about it. There's not a magic pill to make it stop either. 

[kittymomNC]

I had had a dizzy spell or something like that a few times, but the first time I had a real bout with vertigo, it lasted about two hours... I was sitting up, but if I tried to lie down, I immediately felt like I was going to pass out.  It scared me, and I called a friend who came and stayed with me until it got better.  I didn't go to the doctor that time.  

Then one Saturday morning more than a year later, I went to some yard sales, came home and since I hadn't gotten much sleep the night before, decided to take a little nap.  I laid my head down on the pillow, then started to sit up or move, and almost passed out.  Laid my head back down and I was ok - tried to lift my head and almost passed out again.  I called a friend, but knew it would take a little while for her to get here, so I called my neighbor and she came over, offered to take my blood pressure, and I told her that would probably scare me even worse.  She thought I needed to go to the hospital, and I knew she and my friend would never be able to get me to the car, so she called an ambulance.  They lifted me off the bed in a prone position while holding my head straight so I wouldn't pass out.  Went to the ER and they kept me for almost 8 hours before they got me to the point where I could get up and walk.  It was several hours before I could even lift my head up.  They gave me an anti-anxiety medicine and another one called Meclizine (sp?).  They never determined exactly what caused it, but I had those medicines sitting all over my house for a year with bottles of water in case it happened again.  It scared me that much.  I did learn later than even a piece of dust in the right spot in your ear can cause vertigo.  I try not to worry about it anymore, but sometimes I feel it a little bit and try to just relax and it usually goes away.  I never want that to happen to me again!

[Msfitness]

I suffer from vertigo. Sometimes it just comes and sometimes certain things trigger an attack; such as having the ceiling fan on. Other times, it can be from a very windy day. I usually don't take my medication because it makes me too sleepy (unless I have a really bad attack with nausea.)

[Mindy D]

Unfirtunately I have had it. I had labrynthitis following a minor virus. The vertigo lasted two years and came back a few years later, but for only a week. There is a medicine that helps, sorta (almost negligible help). It's called Antivert. Limit SALT. Go see your primary care doc incase she has an ear infection. Turning the head quickly or go the side and back to center will cause more dizziness. I had to hold onto the walls when I walked with it. Make an appointment ASAP to be sure there is no ear infection. 

[Goodie2shoes]

I have had a couple episodes of Vertigo, been several years since the last episode. I was taken to the emergency room by ambulance with my first episode that happened about 4 am. Doctor says some people have this with aging. I keep over the counter Antivert in my purse and at my bedside. Very scary when that happens, get it checked out

[JB116]

I have basilar migraines and vertigo is a symptom of them. In my case, it can be very bad at times.

Definitely get your wife to the doctor for a full exam and make sure she describes what is happening in as much deatil as possible, that will help the doctor.

The worst time I ever had with my vertigo was when my ex-husband and I were in Niagara Falls. We were staying on the 33rd floor of the hotel and because of how dizzy and sick I got, we had to get off the elevator every 3-5 floors so I could rest and not throw up. It took us nearly 30 minutes to get to our room that time.

For me it strikes any time and I've had to pull off the road while driving and at work I have to 'hold on' to the wall when I am walking down the hall so that way I know I won't fall even though I feel like I am crooked.

My migraines very often do not develop into full blown ones but that doesn't make a difference with the vertigo. The vertigo comes even if it's a migraine just forming and I can head it off with my meds. I also know that a migraine has formed even though I can't tell, because the vertigo is present.

Mine go hand in hand and there is never vertigo without a migraine (developed or not).

In my case its VERY disruptive but because I have a good doctor I know how to deal with them.

There's LOTS of ways to deal with vertigo but you first need to know the cause of it as there is not just one med for it.

I wish you and your wife much success with it.

[Q4u]

I have it rarely and it's a result of a pinched nerve in my neck (from falling down stairs in 2010) and landing full force on my left cheek (which torked my neck).  It's horrible (for me) because I can't stand being dizzy in any way.  I discovered that in order to ease some of the feeling in my neck I would stretch it as far to the right as I could and as far to the left as I could (it felt great!) until it brought on a bout of Vertigo!!  I conciously don't do that anymore..