Okay, it's 4am here and I just could not pretend that I was okay with tossing and turning anymore. When I went to get out of bed at first, BAM!! The whole world tilted!! What the heck??!!! I got up from a lying down postion and it literally felt like someone took the other end of the bed and lifted it up in an attempt to drop me off!! OMG!! Even my eye sight tilted!! The feeling of gravity pulling me off the edge of the bed was SO intense! I layed back down and held on until it passed. My husband (who unfortunately has been kept up by my tossing and turning)wanted to know why I was holding on to the bed for dear life. I said when it stops moving I'll stop hanging on thankyouverymuch.

What heck was that? Was that vertigo? I've had dizzy spells before, I've had dizzy spells where I feel like I might fall off the edge of a chair I'm sitting on or that my head feels disconnected from my body, but it was more annying than anything else. This dizzy spell was VIOLENT!

Has anyone had this happen and/or knows what it could be? I'm going to the ENT later on today for some answers with my tinnitus...I will DEF tell him about this. It was SO bizzare!!

sure sounds like vertigo to me...and it really sux!sometimes i get it so bad that i throw up.Once when i had it for like a week it was caused by an inner ear infection....but other times i'm not sure what causes it.DH went to the dr. once for it and was told sometimes this just happens to people as they get older....

Could be something called labrinthitis, which is an inflammation of the inner ear. I had it once a couple years ago and it hit me out of nowhere. It lasted a few days. Dr. told me it can be caused my a recent infection but I had not been sick so don't really know what triggered it. I wasn't dizzy in the "nauseated" sort of way but I couldn't move my head AT ALL without feeling like the world was spinning. He gave me and prescription for Antivert and it seemed to help until it just went away on it's own. I hope that's all this is for you too. Nothing serious but wow, it was wierd!
Jan

I have had this problem. I describe it as feeling like I'm on the inside of a washing machine if I tilt my head certain ways. It is called "BPPV" (benign positional paroxysmal vertigo). "Benign" is somewhat of a misnomer because the vertigo can be quite severe. The immediate (not root)cause is usually calcium crystals in the inner ear; the root cause can be infection, trauma, aging, as well as other. Mine sort of went away on its own (I did take some Mucinex). Sometimes you have to see a PT, neurologist or ENT for a specialized therapy (Wiki and/or Mayo describe in-depth what is doen) if it doesn't go away. Incidentally, I also have Lyme..and I do think there was a connection as one of my primary symptoms when having a flare is severe ear/neck pain.

there is some thing in your inner ear that helps you keep your balance, and you say you have tinn. im betting thats the cause of the vertigo, my sis gets that and its very debilitating......

I had that happen 2 days ago while i was on the phone to my mum, i had to actually lay down on the floor until it stopped...really scary thing. I also get the ringing in my ears especially the right one so dont know if thats the cause.

OMG, the same thing just happened to me. It began last Saturday with intense pressure in my head that wouldn't go away. When I got up Sunday morning the room was spinning like no other. I have never felt anything like this in my life. I screamed for my husband and layed back down. It finally subsided, but felt a bit off all day. That night, same thing when I layed down to go to bed. I screamed and held on to my husband for dear life. I am now in a kind of a fog all of the time which doesn't help since I get this foggy feeling with the depression anyway. THis is day four and it still is lingering. Went to the Chiro yesterday hopoing he would be able to help but when I got up from the table I had to hold on to him as it was so intense. Please let me know what the ENT says. I went to my Naturepathic Dr. yesterday and she said she has something I can use for vertigo which works very well but she thinks it will clear up on its own. It it doesn't within the week then I will try the stuff. I have also been suffering with weird ear problems too.
Hears hoping this passes soon.

Bev

What you are describing is vertigo, which is a spinning sensation. As with tinnitus there are many, many reasons people can get vertigo. Just be sure to discuss it with the doctor and audiologist, and keep us posted. We're here for you!

Cindy

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Okay, it's 4am here and I just could not pretend that I was okay with tossing and turning anymore. When I went to get out of bed at first, BAM!! The whole world tilted!! What the heck??!!! I got up from a lying down postion and it literally felt like someone took the other end of the bed and lifted it up in an attempt to drop me off!! OMG!! Even my eye sight tilted!! The feeling of gravity pulling me off the edge of the bed was SO intense! I layed back down and held on until it passed. My husband (who unfortunately has been kept up by my tossing and turning)wanted to know why I was holding on to the bed for dear life. I said when it stops moving I'll stop hanging on thankyouverymuch.

What heck was that? Was that vertigo? I've had dizzy spells before, I've had dizzy spells where I feel like I might fall off the edge of a chair I'm sitting on or that my head feels disconnected from my body, but it was more annying than anything else. This dizzy spell was VIOLENT!

Has anyone had this happen and/or knows what it could be? I'm going to the ENT later on today for some answers with my tinnitus...I will DEF tell him about this. It was SO bizzare!!


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I can't believe I am reading this! 2 years ago when I crashed and was really really bad, twice I woke from a dream in which I was grabbing for my dogs on the bed because the gravity was gone and we were all about to fly into space. I suddenly woke to the very same feeling I was having in the dream! I thought it was a premonition or something because it felt sooo real. I told my husband about it also, I was so freaked out. I have also had the dizzies so bad that I had to hang on to the bed posts. All of this is pretty much gone now. I sometimes get slightly dizzy once or twice a day and then it passes. I have never told any of my docs. They would probaly think I am nuts! lol Hope all of this passes for you soon. Hang in there!
All the best.
Linda

I have lyme too and I have come to believe that most of the worst of the worst of my symtoms are lyme related, not peri...although it didn't help much to have my hormones so out of whack (probably made worse by the lyme) and to have such heavy bleeding for so many months that I becme severely anemic.

Anyway, getting back to the vertigo issue. Vertigo and tinnitus can apparently be caused by peri menopause. However,
as a former audiologist I know that they can also indicate more serious medical problems. If the vertigo and tinnitus occur together, they should always be evaluated by an ENT, especially if the tinnitus is only in one ear or there is any hearing loss.

BTW, someone commented before about "benign" vertigo. The benign doesn't mean that the vertigo isn't disabling. It only means that the condition is benign in that it doesn't indicate any serious illness or disease. Most vertigo is due to "benign" causes, but unfortunately there are some very serious conditions that can cause vertigo, e.g., brain tumors. (Please don't get freaked out about that. Most tinnitus and vertigo is more a nuisance than it is a health threat.)

Cindy