# The room was spinning.... **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [July 21, 2005, 4:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-room-was-spinning/313491 "2005-07-21T16:28:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 5\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![Brynda](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e79b87/32.png) [@Brynda](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Brynda)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 9:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-room-was-spinning/313491/21 "2005-07-21T21:21:31Z")
Vertigo, I bet. After you go to a MD and get your official diagnosis, ask for the OTC version of anti-vert (called meclizine, IIRC). It is much cheaper than getting the script filled. **Shirley** , were your vertigo and your hearing loss related? It sounded like they were, but I wanted to check. [sub]Do I need to type louder? Only for you would I make such a bad joke. [/sub] ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 9:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-room-was-spinning/313491/22 "2005-07-21T21:46:14Z")
They have OTC vertigo medicine? I must definitely check this out. Mine is usually not long-lasting, but it is so damned unpleasant when it happens. ---
**Author:** ![Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/bb73d2/32.png) [@Dark\_Side\_of\_the\_Floyd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Dark_Side_of_the_Floyd)\ **Post date:** [July 21, 2005, 10:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-room-was-spinning/313491/23 "2005-07-21T22:23:57Z")
My mother tells me (nurse, BTW), that it’s caused by having low blood sugar. ---
**Author:** ![Shirley\_Ujest](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/45deac/32.png) [@Shirley\_Ujest](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shirley_Ujest)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 2:18am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-room-was-spinning/313491/24 "2005-07-22T02:18:08Z")
> [@Brynda](#): > > Vertigo, I bet. After you go to a MD and get your official diagnosis, ask for the OTC version of anti-vert (called meclizine, IIRC). It is much cheaper than getting the script filled. > > **Shirley** , were your vertigo and your hearing loss related? It sounded like they were, but I wanted to check. > > [sub]Do I need to type louder? Only for you would I make such a bad joke. [/sub] **WHAT!???!!** (Insert a smilie with an ear trumpet here.) Yes, my vertigo was accompanied by ear blockage ( not wax or anything. My inner ear decide to go union on me. ) the ear blockage happened a couple hours earlier and WHAM…there went my balance. Good.Times. (nonstop barfing…loosing control of one’s bowels. Ruining a hospital toilet. A kodak moment.) and when the ear-blockage-vertigo are mixed together, according to the UberEar Specialist, the hearing does not come back. The bonus is I now have tinnitus. w00t! I am one of about 3-4 thousand people in the US who suffer from Sudden Unexplained Hearing Loss Syndrome. Go Me! A medical farking conundrum! As long as it isn’t a precursor to something nasty and lingeringWhich it is not., I’m happy. ---
**Author:** ![xbuckeye](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/x/9e8a1a/32.png) [@xbuckeye](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/xbuckeye)\ **Post date:** [July 22, 2005, 2:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-room-was-spinning/313491/25 "2005-07-22T02:24:57Z")
Or if it is hot and humid there, I would vote for dehydration and low blood pressure from dehydration. Check your urine. If your bowl is yellow, you should drink more. I have had this problem and had ear problems, but I couldn’t walk straight or see straight either and constantly has to touch something to remind me which way was up. It didn’t go away by itself. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/the-room-was-spinning/313491.md?page=1)