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Old 07-18-2007, 12:50 PM   #1
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vertigo?

starting on sunday night i have been randomly waking up in the middle of the night one or two times being pretty dizzy, but nothing serious enough to be painful or cause nausea. this past night i slept fine, woke up at 6:30am and had to go to the restroom, still felt fine, and went back to sleep until my alarm at 7:45.

i woke up about one minute before my alarm and i was so dizzy i thought i was about to throw up. the entire room was spinning and i actually felt the worst i've probably ever felt in my life. i got up and the dizziness went away rather quickly, but it's been 3 hours now and i still feel nauseaous and i get a little dizzy here and there too. i have trouble moving my head a lot as well.

my dad had vertigo very bad a few years ago. i've only gotten one bout of vertigo before and it was about 5 years ago and it only lasted a few hours. what i have now seems to have been building up since sunday night and hit a peak this morning, or is about to get worse.

my father told me to take mic-something hydrochloride, which is what his doctor prescribed. i would get up and look at what it's called exactly, but i don't feel good enough to make that walk. i took one and i feel better, but not great. i am getting tired and i will doze off for a few seconds and every time i wake myself up i am dizzy (nothing as bad as this morning).

why is my dizziness getting worse when i wake from a sleep? does it sound like i have vertigo? will that medicine help vertigo go away? anything else i can do? thanks.
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Old 07-18-2007, 01:09 PM   #2
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Re: vertigo?

You should not take a medication that was prescribed for someone else - you have not been diagnosed yet. Since vertigo has a variety of different causes, it should not be ignored. You really should get to a doctor as soon as possible and let him sort it out.
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Old 07-18-2007, 01:45 PM   #3
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Re: vertigo?

there is no prescription because the medication is over the counter. it's typically used for motion sickness but is what my doctor suggested my dad take when he got vertigo. the stuff is meclizine hydrochloride. you can buy it at any drug store. i just am curious if it sounds like what i have is vertigo or not.
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Old 07-18-2007, 01:57 PM   #4
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Re: vertigo?

I had the same exact thing as you,same time was morning worse or if I looked up and looked down. Nobody could find anything so I begged for antibiotics and bam it worked. Sometimes they cant see ear infections well and it sounds thats what you have because its positional. My ears didnt hurt or anything to prove ear infection but I knew that was what it was.
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