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Primarily I thought it was an earthquake as everything around me was moving. Later I found it was only me who was experiencing this movement. Lastly I remember I was lying in my stomach on the ground to make everything still around me.

A vertigo patient shared her experience on how it felt when she suffered from the spells of attack. She was having these attacks for a couple of months.

This lady was a vertigo patient. Vertigo is somewhat same like dizziness where the person under an attack feels everything around her is moving.

Vertigo is not a disease, it’s a symptom, specifically of a problem called peripheral vestibular disorder. This happens due to the structural disorder in the ears.

Most common peripheral disorder is termed as benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. In this one gets vomiting, nausea, perspiration, impaired cognitive abilities, hearing loss with no warning.

The other type of peripheral disorder is Mires syndrome. In this rare disorder a person can become total deaf or nearly deaf. The symptoms are same to the other common peripheral disorder; the only difference is that the patient may have a “full” feeling in his or her ear at the onset of the problem.

For vertigo suffering person the best option is to sleep or lie down when the attacks start. But that can be a problem as the symptoms can increase or decrease with a course of hours or day.

This client of mine sought medical treatment for these symptoms. Sad part is that without curing vertigo, some undesirable side effects developed.

While undergoing a blood pressure check up for her hypertension, the nurse discussed that the medication she was using for her high blood pressure often showed vertigo as a side effect. It was after that she noticed the side effect actually started while she was undergoing this medication.

She was aghast when this came to her notice. The doctor that had prescribed her the medications for high blood pressure never bothered to tell her about this side effect. Nor did the doctor who was treating her for vertigo.

Temporary and chronic vertigo can result from number of drugs obtained as prescribed drugs or those that are sold over the counter. These drugs include common ones like those used to treat for flu and colds, some antibiotics and anticonvulsants.

This case may force you to think differently about the doctors but the fact remains that medication for hypertension, which is a life threatening disease, is seen as the best course available.

This patient joined my program as she was in need of both high blood pressure and vertigo treatments. Under my program she got a great relief from both the problems. She even discontinued her medication and is now symptom free. My program is here for you to get out of your vertigo and dizziness problems. EIN: EL331005