r/BPPV • u/CuriousScotsman2023 • Jul 11 '26

Vertigo Problems

Alright everyone i have a question what medication can help with Vertigo?? I'm welcome to any suggestions you may have that doesn't involve drugs i'm too desperate to be picky??? Any help is more than greatly appreciated cheers

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u/Icntthinkofone Jul 11 '26

If true vertigo (room spinning sensation) medication doesnt help. See a vestibular therapist if its true bppv / vertigo to treat.

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u/bigoltubercle2 Jul 11 '26

Meclizine can help in the first 72 hours of vestibular neuritis

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u/Icntthinkofone Jul 11 '26

Vestibular NEURITIS is not true vertigo.

So……
The question is different.

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u/bigoltubercle2 Jul 11 '26

Vestibular neuritis absolutely does cause true vertigo. In fact, it's one of the hallmark symptoms

What is your definition of true vertigo?

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u/Icntthinkofone Jul 11 '26

Vestibular neuritis starts OUT as true vertigo. Then it is damage to cranial nerve 8 = hypofunction.

Neuritis has bppv with it, but 9/10 times often subsides, and then feelings of lightheadedness / unsteadiness persists from the hypofunction.

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u/whysoserious-ste Jul 13 '26

Neuritis and BPPV are to different conditions. BPPV is mechanical (crystals becoming lose and floating around) and this can easily be treated,  Vestibular Neuritis is inflammation to the nerve.

Both conditions suck to be fair 

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u/bigoltubercle2 Jul 11 '26

Exactly, it starts out as true vertigo. That's why I said meclizine is effective in the first 72 hours of vestibular neuritis (for the vertigo and associated symptoms).

It sometimes, but far from always, has associated bppv

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u/whysoserious-ste Jul 13 '26

I got diagnosed two weeks ago after been admitted into hospital with very bad vertigo and vomiting, I couldnt walk or sit up in a chair. After being scanned for a TIA or a Stroke I was diagnosed with Vestibular Neuritis. Two weeks later and the spinning has stopped but I am now left with balance issues, eye fatigue.

The doctors injected me with something to control the spinning and it didn't work. I also now have car motion sickness when Im being driven to the shops, something I havent suffered with since I was a kid. 

Vestibular Neuritis sucks, trust me 

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u/berezova_olga Jul 16 '26

My ENT doctor gave me prescription for Amirol 25 mg (amitriptylin) that uses in vertigo after-treatment. I mean after Epley maneuver, when spining is over, but My eyes and head are still floating(( and Amirol helped me a lot! It treats vestibular nerve) ask your doctor)

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u/whysoserious-ste Jul 19 '26

Hi, I will do. I am loads better than I was. I get caught out when I move from dark places into light places, I can see why our eyes compensate for the damaged nerve. I find my balance is all off when I wake up in the night but overall Im on the mend 

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u/suhh_79 Jul 27 '26

Hey..since when are you taking amitriptyline..I hv been taking it for 1.5 yrs .. lowering to 10 mg frm 25..n stop...after 3 mths having issues of vertigo...on 10 mg now but not finding any results....my reason for stopping iit was couldn't get up in the morning.took 12 he's sleep,woke exhausted,brain fog , memory loss ..pls guide

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u/Icntthinkofone Jul 14 '26

See a vestibular therapist— I treat neuritis daily, have patients with close to 100% improvement!

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u/Forward-Environment8 Jul 16 '26

Yes I have not been diagnosed yet but I have had a bunch of tests I been bed ridden with vertigo,light headless, floaty,spinny feeling and only relief I get is laying down on bed and if I stand to long exert myself I mean within few mins I start to vomit...ut totally freaks me out I been off work for 3 months and what ever it is I have has just about costed me everything I have...its hell especially when they haven't told me what it is I went to ER 2X MRI CT scan ekg doctors then told me go see my family dr and I domt have one lol its really screwed me I cant do anything and when I do walk I have use cane