Do you suffer from Vertigo?

[Willow]

Well there's an APP for that!

It's a local firm:

http://www.ottawacitizen.com/health/...407/story.html

[hearingimpared]

I suffered from vertigo as a child due to my ear problems. As I got older my body comensated for the loss of eardrum & tuning bones in my right ear and the vertigo when away. The only time it comes back is when my head and left ear get congested but once the congestion is relieved the vertigo goes away.

The human body is a miracle and inteligently compensates and heals itself!

[Willow]

I think it's amazing all they are able to do with these apps.

[hearingimpared]

I think it's amazing all they are able to do with these apps.

I guess it all depends on the cause of the vertigo, but yes I agree with you it is amazing.

Vertigo is b*tch to live with. It makes you constantly feel you are walking on pillows, makes you clumsy, dizzy, nauseous, a tendancy to walk to the right or left without any control, sometimes sounds like you are in an echo chamber, etc.

The usual treatment here in the states believe it or not is 10mgs of Valium four times a day. This new treatment beats the hell out taking Valium, an addictive drug, to diminish the effects.

[Willow]

The only time I get it is if I'm high up and it's floor to ceiling windows and I walk to the edge, then it all starts to spin and I feel weird.

[hearingimpared]

The only time I get it is if I'm high up and it's floor to ceiling windows and I walk to the edge, then it all starts to spin and I feel weird.

To this day, I can't do heights. For that matter if I'm watching a movie where the shot is taken from the top of a building down to the ground, I have to look away as I get dizzy and nauseous. Pretty freaky ey!

[Willow]

To this day, I can't do heights. For that matter if I'm watching a movie where the shot is taken from the top of a building down to the ground, I have to look away as I get dizzy and nauseous. Pretty freaky ey!

You should try this app and see if can help you. Just for fun even.

[hearingimpared]

Hahaha, I don't even have a basic cell phone let alone and iPhone. Can't be bothered talking on the phone when I'm out of the house. I'm definitely an old fashioned type of guy! However if this thing really works it might behoove me to borrow my son's and give it a shot.:)

[TNRabbit]

I don't suffer with it; I embrace it lovingly~

[zombie boy 2000]

To this day, I can't do heights. For that matter if I'm watching a movie where the shot is taken from the top of a building down to the ground, I have to look away as I get dizzy and nauseous. Pretty freaky ey!

I'm the exact same way. Yet I feel constantly compelled to imagine stuff like this. Kind of like picking at a scab.

Anyway... if you're feeling particularly self-loathsome, might I recommend watching the film Man on Wire?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_on_wire/

[greg2350]

I guess it all depends on the cause of the vertigo, but yes I agree with you it is amazing.

Vertigo is b*tch to live with. It makes you constantly feel you are walking on pillows, makes you clumsy, dizzy, nauseous, a tendancy to walk to the right or left without any control, sometimes sounds like you are in an echo chamber, etc.

I think thats called LSD. LOL

[sandworms]

thanx for the link, I've had vertigo for a year and a half and was told there is no cure or relief, maybe there is hope!

[Willow]

thanx for the link, I've had vertigo for a year and a half and was told there is no cure or relief, maybe there is hope!

Let me know how it works out if you decide to try it.

[bruss]

I actually had to go to therapy to have that procedure done. 15-20 minutes of them rolling your head around then some excersises at home and voila. I had a nasty case of vertigo after my chemo

[Tony M]

I'm surprised nobody has mentioned Meniers' disease. My wife was diagnosed years ago with it.
...The ear fluid gets too saline for the little mechinisms to work right and down you go, HARD.
...Vertigo from hell, it is....BUT there is a cure.

Reduced sodium intake.

Hard to do but she's been doing pretty well watching it. She used to spend 24 hrs. or more pretty much on the comode and her head hung over the sink when it hit hard. She had those tests done that were mentioned above and they pretty much knew what it was from the severity of her attacks.

Now it didn't happen until she was around 48 or so. No problems ever before either.

I just had a vertgo attack a couple weeks ago and it came and went over about a week. Food poisoning set it off I think. That discription above about walking on pillows and crazy balance issues is spot on. Nausia maximus!

[hearingimpared]

I'm the exact same way. Yet I feel constantly compelled to imagine stuff like this. Kind of like picking at a scab.

Anyway... if you're feeling particularly self-loathsome, might I recommend watching the film Man on Wire?

http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1155592/
http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/man_on_wire/

I know what you mean Ja, when I watched "Cliffhanger" with Stalone, I almost had a heart attack! LOL!

I'm also extemely claustrophobic so when I watched "Kill Bill Vol II" the scene where they were nailing her shut in the coffin, I was looking around the movie theater to see if anyone was getting ready to bolt or could see their hearts pounding out of their chests like I was WAAAAAAA!!!!

[woofiepaws]

A family friend had vertigo for about 25 years. Multiple specailists and experts, multiple treatments.

Turned out she had a very atypical presentation for rheumatoid arthritis. She's better now that she is getting the right meds.

[hearingimpared]

A family friend had vertigo for about 25 years. Multiple specailists and experts, multiple treatments.

Turned out she had a very atypical presentation for rheumatoid arthritis. She's better now that she is getting the right meds.

Yeah man that rheumatoid arthritis is a systemic problem and can cause all kinds of crazy symptoms. Do you know how the diagnostician figured that one out? Whoever it was is a genius.

[Face]

To this day, I can't do heights. For that matter if I'm watching a movie where the shot is taken from the top of a building down to the ground, I have to look away as I get dizzy and nauseous. Pretty freaky ey!

So a MRI on the edge of a tall building would be a bad moment for you? :D

[hearingimpared]

So a MRI on the edge of a tall building would be a bad moment for you? :D

Grossly understated!

[hearingimpared]

I think thats called LSD. LOL

More like methqualone hydrochloride AKA quaalude!:D