My dizziness started in the summer of 2003. I have read so many others on here who also had their first dizzy spell in the summer. I am very curious if in fact this dizziness may be due to the West Nile Virus. The West Nile Virus is a very new disease and they don't know an awful lot about it. They do know that it affects people in different ways. Some people don't even know they have it and have no symptoms at all, and some people die from it.
My question is, is there a middle ground? Perhaps some people get damage of the inner ear from it? I asked my doctor if I could get a west nile blood test and he brushed me off saying he didn't think that was what I had.....
Who else here got this last summer? :wave:

Hi Sickin TO,

I also got nailed last August however it was winter here in Sydney. I have this crazy theory that it happened because of the proximity of Mars to the Earth back then - LOL. It sounds totally nuts but on August 27th last year Mars was the closest to Earth in over some 300 years. That very day I got out of bed and my lower back totally collapsed like never before. I spent 2 days in bed without moving (I couldn't move without horrible muscle spasms going off). On the 4th day (back was much better) I walked outside to discover my whole world was moving - labyrinthitis had landed. That night I was in the ER thinking I was having a stroke or something...it came with a really weird viral infection that sucked every bit of energy out of me for a month and nearly drove me insane. Probably all a coincidence. It's easy to think it could be this or that but at the end of the day it's probably just bad luck.

Cheers...Scott :cool:

Hi all - scott I dont think I realised about your back - you dont think the dizziness was connected to that? I got my dizziness in autumn - october - 2 weeks after a fluey cold....


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Yup me too, I got the dizzies in June of last year, just celebrated my year anniversary, yipee I do so love this thing. :rolleyes: who knows where you pick this up from... , I came off a plane so maybe someone kindly shared it with me, wouldn't I just love to meet them he he. So how you doing these days Em, I spoke with Ilia and got a referal to London so fingers crossed....

Hi Em.....I think the back thing could have been more to do with the viral illness I got with the labyrinthitis. Maybe it was already affecting my muscles. Whatever virus I did get was like nothing I had never experienced before (not including the dizziness). I actually had one other warning sign that lab was coming about 2 weeks before it really hit. One night I went to bed and after lying there for about 15 minutes, I suddenly got this naseous feeling....similar to the feeling you get going to bed after a few too many drinks. It felt like I was moving too. I wonder if I could have prevented it somehow had I known what it really was?

Scott xx

Hi All, count me in. This started last April. I just woke up with the room spinning round and round. After the ENG, got the dx of bppv. Then, after several epleys, it went to residual effects of bppv. Now, they have given up and don't know!!!! If it wasn't for the Lord, I know I would be crazy by now. I spend 24/7 with feelings of rocking,swaying,jerking--vision is blurry and sometimes really blurry. So, I continue in prayer and I do work 8hrs a day on the computer, with times of meetings. The computer sure doesn't help with the vision! To everyone--hang in there. Belle

Scott - interesting theory about Mars and all that. For me the BPPV really kicked in late Jul/earlyAugust last year. I'd had the very occasional symptom - so few and far between that the ENT didn't even send me for VRT, though the previous year I'd had a dx of BPPV - but then - nothing. Anyway, like you - only not so suddenly - I developed really bad lower back pains in early July (been an on and off back sufferer since my honeymoon in 1973 - no comment please). This culminated after 2 weeks with a protruding disc and three days in which, like you I could barely move let alone sit or stand. Getting to the bathroom was a joke even though it was all of 2 steps away. Once I got back on my feet - BPPV had landed quite nicely. Now my ENT said no way is LBP connected to balance problems/inner ear etc. but my gut feeling told me otherwise. I was vindicated when I found one article on the web that said balance problems/vertigo can be a result of prolonged inactivity, such as enforced bedrest. Didn't say how long "enforced" was, but 3 days in bed is certainly a long time for me. And during all that time mars was close to the earth, like you say. (My planet is Mars - not that I am a huge believer in astronomy - maybe it sought me out!!)

Interesting thoughts.

Madeleine

I first got sick in JUly 2002 - so it's my 2 year aniversary.......very depressing!

I was in London at the time so it was summer over there.

I am similar to Emsybobs as mine also started about 2 weeks after a nasty case of a cold.

I am still looking for answers!!

(But I had a brilliant weekend, shopping wih friends all day saturday, out with friends for long lunch on sunday. Felt practically normal. But it has all gone backwards today and am feeling awful again. But I did have 2 days.....)