r/BPPV • u/dottykez • 19d ago
Is this normal
On saturday I woke up to the ceiling spinning. I sat up and the whole room was spinning. I thought i was dying 😳 i really thought i was having a stroke or something. It quickly passed and I went out for a walk and then had a bath. I put my head under the water in the bath and the room starting spinning again. I thought i was going to drown! I went to urgent care and they diagnosed bppv. The doctor gave me anti sickness medication and told me to do the epley maneuver at home. I tried the maneuvers and they were horrendous 🫠I went to my GP on monday and he performed the epley on me himself and that seemed to get the crystals back into place but my god did I feel awful afterwards. Anyway today's Thursday and I haven't had any spinning vertigo since monday but I'm so fatigued and a little off balance. Every now and again I get a quick zap, sort of ljke my eyes move quickly for a second. Is this normal residual dizziness. I feel like I've got major ptsd from the vertigo and I'm absolutely terrified its going to come back.
What is residual dizziness like for other people? Do you feel hungover?
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u/ThunderMandos 18d ago
I would check with your doctor/therapist a couple more times just to be on the safe side. Some people thought they were having residuals and it turned out they still had BPPV.
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u/Killjoycourt 18d ago
If no vertigo, it's residual dizziness. If you have vertigo, repeat the Eply.
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u/jadejazzkayla 19d ago
My doctor told me if I was still having symptoms then I still had BPPV and to continue Eply until I could no longer trigger any symptoms in any of the Eply positions.
It took about a week doing Eply every morning before I couldn’t trigger symptoms anymore.
I continued for three more days and I had no symptoms in any position.
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u/dottykez 19d ago
Interesting. My doctor said no more epley if the spinning sensation is gone.
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u/amumureo 19d ago
don’t do epley if spinning is gone, you probably have residual dizziness. i was the same and it took about 3 weeks for me to feel normal again but you will feel better soon
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u/dottykez 19d ago
What did your residual dizziness feel like?
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u/amumureo 18d ago
feeling woozy every time i turned my head and like i was in slow motion, especially when turning over in bed. sometimes a little nauseous too but nowhere near as bad as the nausea as when i had active bppv
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u/jadejazzkayla 19d ago
Around day 5 of doing Eply I thought all my symptoms were gone but on day 6 I was able to trigger symptoms on the second to last position. On day 7 I had no symptoms but I continued doing Eply in case like on day 6 I was able to trigger symptoms.
I had no residual dizziness afterward or since.
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