Hi, I'm new so forgive me if I come across rude, it's not intentional. I suffer with terrible vertigo...... Full on room spinning and I'm sick so much that at times I start vomiting up blood and end up in hospital. There is a difference between dizziness and vertigo the specialists says. If you can't see and your eyes move from side to side AND your sick then it's definitely vertigo.

I had mumps when I was twenty four and it took my hearing in one ear completely. My ENT says I probably have Menieres Disease because of the damage the mumps did back then. I have suffered with dizziness and light headedness too due to other reasons such as low blood pressure and low blood sugars. If you get a throbbing head when you get out of bed or stand up after sitting a while then its more likely to be your blood pressure. You can try to overcome this by making sure you're not dehydrated.

Making sure you have had enough to drink can be problematic though because if you're like me you don't realise you need a drink until you start feeling I'll. Or you could go overboard and drink too much, which can also cause dizziness etc as you can lose electrolytes and such and it can make you feel worse.

If anyone would like a little help or advice then you could always ask and I'll see what I can do, and if I don't know I can ask my ENT or hearing therapist. But the not so good news though is that it is very hard to treat true vertigo. There are meds such as beta histine or serc as it's more well known as but you need to take them for a while and keep them in your system to get them built up.

In my case they dont stop the vertigo or the sickness but they sort of make it a little less full on and at times it can make attacks shorter. I was up to over sixteen hours full on at times and kept hurling and once or twice they did help reduce the length of my attacks.

I saw someone posted links for the exercises you can do if you get BPV which is where you can turn over in bed and it flares up and those exercises are worth trying as they have helped alot of people with BPV and sometimes they only ever need to do them once, or possibly a couple of times and have been ok since.

Another thing to say is that if anyone does get vertigo or even dizziness alot then they should always get it checked out by a doctor .