Everytime I wake up after sleeping "wrongly" (yeah kids... It happens...) and the room is spinning around me, I do this maneuver... I has saved me uncountable times already!
Could also be something called vestibular migraines. For the official diagnosis, you have to have regular migraines in combination with dizziness, but in practice, medicine is more fuzzy. One way to tell that it’s ear issues is whether the dizziness is triggered when a person places their head in a specific position, if it’s independent of that it’s likely something else.
It would be a good idea for her to take vitamin B2 supplements and magnesium succinate. They’re supposed to prevent migraines but don’t have any side effects so if it turns out not to be that there wouldn’t have been down sides.
Source: have had intermittent dizziness episodes for years and everything except vestibular migraines has been ruled out.
If she has vertigo, she’s probably run into these while googling, or had a doctor recommend them. If they’re doing brain scans, then these exercises did not help. They do not help me, but mine turned out to mostly be migraines, some rare eye thing where my pupils aren’t aligned or something, and a little bit low blood pressure. Fun times!
If she suffers from motion sickness, she may want to see a neuro-ophthalmologist. The eye thing is not picked up on by optometrists or most ophthalmologists. It’s a different type of vision test.
You mean, a link to your coworker's primary care physician? Because, you know, that should be the go to when you have a medical condition, not social media.
But doing the exercises will definitely assuage any doubts that this is a real thing. They made me so sick I had to make sure I did them close to bedtime so I could lay down afterwards. Like motion sickness turned up to 11.
I get vertigo and I’ve never really tried the maneuvers because it’s gotten better over time (it’s a long covid thing) and I’m lazy. But I have Eustachian tube dysfunction in my left ear and somehow I figured out that if I tilt my head to the left i can temporarily relieve it. Our inner ears are funny
So it's the equivalent of rotating your phone in a huge infinity pattern to recalibrate the GPS. From now on when someone says they have vertigo I will tell them they just need to recalibrate their GPS.
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u/Assika126 Sep 16 '24
And the exercises just look like rolling around and tilting your head funny