Comments on: Drunken Sailor Syndrome – Living and Working with Vertigo

By: Patty Riley

Patty Riley — Sat, 05 May 2012 04:35:47 +0000

I just got diagnosed today after every worsening symptoms of feeling like a drunk with the spins. I am in outside sales and driving scares me right now. I do that every day ALL day. I have to work, 2008 killed my savings. Are there things to avoid and things I should do that might help? Will I have this forever?

By: Stephanie

Stephanie — Tue, 13 Mar 2012 08:16:02 +0000

Hi I’m only about 3 weeks into it but is not fun and with a 4 year old son. ….wellyou know. Well my story is similar to yours with the ear being congested and sinus I was also given Flonase so my question. Is. Has anything changed.? Did the Flonase help ? Please say its gone ;(

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By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:48:01 +0000

Lack of sleep makes me dizzy. Being tired makes me dizzy. I refuse to let it keep me awake at night. When I get so dizzy that my brain feels like it is water swirling down the drain of a tub I used to jump up scared. Now I know it means I am about to fall asleep. So I just let it happen because I know the next thing I will hear is the morning alarm clock!

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 17:41:42 +0000

Many years ago I went to the ER also. I had a LOT of tests done by many types of Doctors, I even went to the Mayo Clinic in Rochester Minnesota. They can’t find anything wrong with me. Life was hell!! It comes and goes but the best thing to help me was the small dose of Klonopin every day. Eventually I figured out what triggered it and I avoid those things. Like too much reading, driving or anything that strains my eyes, certain head movements, like looking upward. Yes, it can be bad in the morning from lying down and moving your head around at night. I avoid caffeine and too much sugar. But for the most part I have been able to live a normal life with the exception of long drives. Rides are ok. I work full-time and do many other normal things. Few people in my life even know there is a problem. Maybe you may want to see a physician for Clonezepam.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:39:18 +0000

I was never able to watch NYPD Blue because of their erractic camera movements. Sometimes staring at the color black helps.

By: Laura

Laura — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 16:33:52 +0000

Jocelyn,

I have the SAME problem. I do not have Menieres but I AM DIZZY ALL THE TIME. I am female, 42 years old my first episode was in 9th grade. In my mid 20′s it became permanent. Yes, foods effect it! Caffeine and too much sugar are the only two I have noticed. Also, small places and too much reading. Why is it worse if i drive for a while? Because my eyes are working too hard for too long and anything that takes a lot of eye focus brings on the symptoms. Yes, I sometimes feel I have to grab onto something. I have been to many, many doctors mostly neurologists. I am under the care of a general physician now. She gives me a very small dose of Clonazepam generic for Klonopin .05 mg I take a half twice per day or as needed. I’ve never heard of the Diazepam and wonder how alike these two drugs are. HOMOMONES effect it! Certain times of the month are horrible other times it is barely even noticeble! I can go a whole day with no drugs. Driving can be difficult and NO ONE understands unless they have it. I work in a cubicle which also sets it off. On days I don’t work I may not get dizzy at all… Good News is I am entering menopause early and about a year ago they lessenned a lot!

By: jacob

jacob — Sat, 24 Dec 2011 09:34:58 +0000

im 16, and have had vertigo for 3 months non stop. the feeling of spinning is constant, for the first month it was slightly easy to deal with, but it was only the biggining. it would get worse with each passing day. the dizzieness would get so bad that i had to go to an ER, because i had nowhere else to go. my personal doc wouldnt help he would just say, ” its vertigo, itll go away in a several weeks, maybe months, i dont know, just go thru the motions, breath in breath out.” just in one appointment, and i could only get one appointment once a week. anyways, back to the ER. everytime i went ( 3 times ) the docs would say that nuthing is wrong. eventually i gave up, and decided to kill myself to end the dizzieness. because it ruined my life, my girlfriend dumped me because i ” wasnt any fun anymore ” i couldnt sleep for a whole week, started to hallucinate, ( because of sleeploss )grades started slipping, couldnt get up to eat, lost 20 pounds in 2 weeks. just went thru hell, my mother caught onto my depression and sent me to a mental ward, to prevent me from killing myself, that all happened in one month during october. during all that the vertigo was still there, getting worse everytime i wake up, came home 2 weeks later. got some perscriptions, meckazine, benodril, and diazepam,and decided to never go down that path again and just stay at home and just wait untill it goes away. now its december, still the same, constant spinning, keeping me up, im suprized i havent died yet from sleep deprivation, but im still kicking! sorry if this makes u depressed, im just jotting sonething down hoping someone has gone thru something just like me. this vertigo is hell. or wat ever the hell it is miniers disease, cancer, tumor watever. but luckily i got a MRI and found none of the ” worst case scynario ” problems. someone plz reply to this, some words of wisdom or sonething good ive ben thru alot inthe past few months.

By: Ria

Ria — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 16:45:37 +0000

Hi everyone,

Came across this site after lots of research as I too have vertigo. I’m 39, and have had the symptoms (dizziness, nausea, sweats, room spinning etc) since last week and although I made it into work, went home after only being able to work half days. My doctor has told me under no circumstances should I drive for a few days, and have complete bed rest. Well, today I walked over to the bus stop to go to work (5 min walk from home), and on the way felt dizzy, sick and my legs felt so weak that I went back home. Eventually when I got myself together I took a cab to work. When I got there, I was shaking uncontrollably that colleagues held me and walked with me to the office. I tried to work but was shaking whilst replying to emails and can’t eve write anything on paper. I was sent home and was told not to go to work for the rest of the week.
I hope employers are sympathetic and supportive to colleagues who have vertigo, as you all well know, only if you have unfortunately suffered the symptoms do you know what people are going through.

Best of luck to you all out there, you have my sympathies and wishes for speedy recoveries!

By: Michelle

Michelle — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 18:00:20 +0000

Had no idea how bad this really was until it hit me a little over a week ago.I have several people in my family that has it but never really understood what they went thru until now.What is even worse is that I was thinking that once my ear infection(which is what I assume kicked in the vertigo)got better and I got past this spell this would be it.Now Im thinking this is something that is always gonna be there in a sense and that just petrifies me.I thought I was getting some better and worked yesterday for the first time since all this had started and by bedtime last night it started getting worse again-today everything is really spinning again.I feel so helpless.Just between my loss of work last week,my husbands loss of work(taking me to the doctor and caring for me),the doctors bill(which I do not have health insurance so its bad),all the different presciptions(again no insurance)-this has already put us in a really bad situation financially when we were already struggling.I have 2 kids 11 & 13 who are each going thru stuff in thier live right now and need me to be healthy for them.I just really feel like giving up-