Vertigo (No not the movie)

[commasense]

I started a thread about vertigo a few weeks ago.

Share your experience with vertigo (BPPV) as patient or medic

About 15 years ago or so, I was driving home and making a right turn when the car flipped over. It didn’t actually, but that’s how it felt. Suddenly everything seemed to be spinning. Fortunately, I was only two blocks from home, and I managed to get there and get up to my condo. It was my first experience with what I soon learned is called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo, or BPPV. The first episode lasted a few hours. I was driven to a doctor who prescribed meclizine (aka Dramamine), which…