“It felt like an earthquake, but one only I was suffering. Everyone around me was moving and shaking, yet was seemingly unaffected. I on the other hand ended up on the floor, nauseated and exhausted.”
This is what one client recently wrote about her vertigo symptoms. She had never experienced anything like it before six months ago, yet these “episodes” were becoming alarmingly familiar.
Her doctor told her she was suffering from vertigo. While the dictionary definition goes something like this, “A feeling in which the external world seems to revolve around the individual or in which the individual seems to revolve in space,” put simply, vertigo is dizziness.
Vertigo itself is not a disease but rather a symptom of another disorder. The most common type of vertigo is a disorder of the structures of the ear, also known as the peripheral vestibular system.
The most common type of peripheral disorder is benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, or BPPV. Symptoms include: dizziness (naturally), nausea, vomiting, perspiration, hearing loss, impaired cognitive ability, and weakness in the muscles in the face. The symptoms come on without warning but generally last less than a minute.
Ménière’s syndrome is a less common but equally incapacitating form of peripheral disorder. While some symptoms are the same (hearing loss, vomiting, dizziness and nausea), symptoms tend to come on more gradually, starting with a “fullness” in the ear, followed ringing and oftentimes culminating in complete deafness in the ear.
Vertigo and hearing loss build and then wane over the course of many hours, but like BPPV, the sufferer usually requires several hours of rest in order to feel better.
My client was treated for both of the above disorders, involving several side effects, carrying their own set of nasty side effects, only to have her symptoms linger and even get worse.
During her third visit to the doctor while she was having her blood pressure checked, her nurse mentioned that certain medications, including the high blood pressure she started taking six months ago can cause vertigo.
“What?!?” This is all she could think, considering it was her doctor who prescribed the blood pressure medication to begin with. Why would he have not mentioned this as a very real side effect?
In fact, it’s more than just high blood pressure medications which can cause temporary and sometimes permanent vertigo. These include both prescription and over the counter cold and flu drugs, certain antibiotics, anticonvulsants and depressants.
While it’s easy to blame this doctor, one must understand that traditional treatments for high blood pressure (a very serious illness which should be treated with respect) generally involve medication.
For my client, her goal had been to find an alternative high blood pressure treatment program which didn’t involve medicine. She tried my High Blood Pressure program and it worked! For her friend (whom she met in an online vertigo sufferers chat group) she was able to recommend my all natural Vertigo and Dizziness program. Regardless of your reason for dizziness, I hope my program can help you.
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