I was at an airshow this summer and when I looked up into the sky to see the planes I got really dizzy and almost fell over. Not sure how looking up into the sky caused that but it sucks.
Take a look at this, @johnny5. I get it periodically and it started a lot like yours did.
yea maybe i have that!!
I get this too on Olanzapine (ZYPREXA)!
I sometimes feel dizzy or get close to having blackouts when I stand after sitting or lay down for extended periods of time!
Can that stick around for eleven years? Because I always assumed getting dizzy when looking up was a side effect of having part of my skull removed, but if you all get it too, maybe it’s fixable.
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It can stay around forever. The Epley maneuver really works - I can go months to years with no problems afterwards - but I’m prone to it and it will often come back if my allergies are bad or I get an upper respiratory infection.
The video says 30-60 seconds per step, but wait until the spinning has stopped each time (spinning might happen on any of the steps but not necessarily all of them.) It might take more than one attempt for this to work, too. And it can be absolutely brutal - sometimes I puke afterwards and am wiped out for the day.
Not sure if the video is clear on it, but start by turning towards the affected side of your head.
The Epley maneuver never worked on me. Maybe mine is just different.
Might be, and it might be the same basic thing but in a different canal. Did you do the Epley with a doctor?
Yeah, the doctor had me do it on both sides.
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I had those symptoms years ago, and it was caused by hypoglycemia, meaning low blood sugar level.
So the docs said that there was nothing I could do about it other than go on a 6 small meal a day diet to reduce the up/down swing of my glucose levels. So I realized that this was good news that the docs said there was nothing that I could do about it. Every time in the past, when I have dealt with doctors, their conclusions were in the wrong, and my conclusions were in the right.
So I immediately devised a method to get the glucose level regulated properly once again, and it worked.
Hypoglycemia, GONE !