# Vertigo (No not the movie)

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**Created:** [August 23, 2022, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/vertigo-no-not-the-movie/970134 "2022-08-23T02:17:46Z")\
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I started a thread about vertigo a few weeks ago.

> [@Share your experience with vertigo (BPPV) as patient or medic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/share-your-experience-with-vertigo-bppv-as-patient-or-medic/967575):
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> 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…

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