Sorry if this has already been addrressed before but my memory just is no help even though I do read all the post here.
My ENT says a fissure burst in my ear and thus the vertigo but I have had virtigo from the start of the PCS...only it was mostly real bad at the beginning after the wreck (march 8).

About 2 months ago I woke up after hearing a very loud sound, in my head, and immediately the whirling room and the vomitting started...went to the ER and then later the primary sent me to my ENT. It got better for some weeks and Now last week I woke up with a bad case of dizziness and it has remained. I still think it is related to the PCS.
Am going to call my ENT back to report the extreme dizzy back again, and he did say he could send me to a PT for my problems. Seems that we have a good one here in our town.
Just wonder how many of you have had the same experience with sudden onset virtigo and vomitting. I don't get sick anymore just extremely dizzy to the point of having to use my rollater when going off due to so much balance problems. Gaye

Just researched past posts and found my answer. So no need to have posted...sorry.

Hi Froglady,
You may have a little of both PCS and vertigo, resulting from middle ear issues, I had the spinning of the room, vomiting and dizziness years ago from a virus affecting my middle ear, so i know what that is like. It is something that you wake up with and it has that spinning, like a clock feeling. It could be that, which is something that they used to just wait till it clears up or treat with antihistamines. It would be nice to know that it is not your PCS again.
Nancy

Hi, there. Do you have any problem with shutting your eyes and getting dizzy. I find that in the middle of the night since hitting my head the last time (about 4 weeks ago) that I become dizzy just lying in bed with my eyes shut - it is awful - I am hoping that it will go away! At the moment I am a bit of a tired zombie. Lynlee

Froglady

I hope the PT has been able to help you a lot. Mine has been very
helpful at times. Right now I have other issues that have put my
PT in a situation were its not as good for the vertigo and balance
issues.

But they sure are much better.


Lucy

I would suggest that you get ahold of the doctor your working with
and ask if you could go to a balance Physical therapist specialist.
This would help a lot with your issues in the dark. Its something
that is needed when its bad. I'm doing this also. I have lots of
problems in darkness.

This has been helping me a lot, they are reteaching me things now.

Donna

Hi Lynlee, oh yes...I have nights when I have to get back out of bed and wait a while to go back to sleep. All kinds of funky lights go on under my eye lids or maybe the spinning will try to start back up. I can't lay down on one pillow anymore due to it causing the vertigo to come back. I get dizzy if I turn over on my side...weird stuff. Also can lean over and whoops here comes the dizzy! I hate to go in stores due to feeling like the whole store is moving and the people make me even more dizzy cause they keep moving around...can't stand patterns either. I do have a catarach in my left eye that was to have been removed this last Friday but Doc says cancel due to vertigo making me feel so bad. He has also said seeing things so fuzzy out of my eye doesn't help the dizziness at all! He got that right..it just compounds it.

Donna, I never did call the ENT, keep thinking the dizziness will go away yet it is now going on 2 weeks and it hasn't. I am so mixed up and frustrated right now I don't know what to do. Lost it yesterday and my son and his wife caught me sobbing my soul out and my daughter came down too. Can't get my emotions under control either. I can not figure out what to do or where to go. I think I am going to have to go to the neurophycologist (spelling?) to get this all put back in place. Not afraid of losing my mind other than the fact that I can't get it to work right and I am just at witts end. Don't know what to do and I think my stressing and I don't know what word to use(another word I can't remember). Darn, see I can't even explain myself like I want to. UGH. Anyway I really need someone ...not family...to help me at this point. The day I blacked out and had a wreck was the day my whole life changed and it has never been the same. Now I don't know if I am dizzy from the wreck, or have vertigo on top of the dizzy, I already had. Does that make sense?

Words come out of my mouth all wrong. I think one thought and something totally different come out of my mouth. gets me so upset. I am just as liable to call the fridge a trash can or some other stupid word..am reading things that I think say one thing, and it is totally something else. Still find that some days it will take me 3 or 4 times to figure out that I wanted something from the kitchen and I might be standing in the bathroom, wondering what it was I wanted in there. Been in my house for 15 years and forget which cabinet the glasses and plates are in. Not all the time but enough that it is beginning to get me down. Part of me wants to give up and the other part of me wants to live my life to the fullest...that is if I could figure out just how to do that.

Oh my, sorry too much information ...got lost in my pity party and got off the subject.

I really wish I could lay down and take a extended nap and wake back up and be normal again. You know, like Rip Van Winkle.

Nancy I wanted to reply to you earlier and got wrapped up in my goofy world and forgot to. I was doing a bit better for a while and then out of the blue the pcs started back, and now I am a wreck. After testing my Neuro said my EEG showed some mild damadge to my brain. Maybe something haappened to my ear at the same time? I know one thing I am sure not going to do anymore, is take the Xanax (spell?) the ENT told me to take for the bad dizzy days. I don't take it daily. Still I think it might be messing with my emotions...then again I might just be so confussed at this time in my life that I don't know anything anymore. I do know that a 2mg valium they RX in the ER, the night I went there after the vertigo attack to get the vomitting stopped, works well enough on bad days to stop the dizziness, thus the nausea stops. Of course I am careful about taking it too. I wait until I can't stand it anymore before I take it and the other Xanax I absolutely will not take every night. Been worried that my pain manegement doc would not want me to be taking this stuff. Don't want to get messed up with him and lose my Lyrica.
Geeese use to be I could manage all this stuff fine and know what to do and now-------OK, so I need a Zoo Keeper. UGH

Thanks Yall, Gaye

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Hi everyone,
People to share my problems with at last!I have the same symptoms as everyone else and i am trying to finish my degree and in the last year of university. It all started when I had a terrible car crash in 2006 doing 90mph. This has resulted in tbi, terrible memory loss, vertigo, dizziness and the worst headaches anyone could imagine. Its so bad I have to go to accident and emergency and get morphine. When im doing my essays i have to wear a tight scarf round my head to alleviate the pressure in my head. Has anyone else experienced this? It sounds quite funny but it does help a bit. I am going to the neuro surgeon on thursday as my head aches have got worse and im getting really worried now as all the people dont really understand what it is like to have tbi and the problems that go with it. I am qualifying as a chartered surveyor soon, but I wont be able to do the job as I cant remember anything, and I just wondered how everyone else copes with jobs or if they have them?Thanks so much.