Hi Everyone,
Is anyone currently or previously suffered from vertigo? I have RRMS and have been suffering for about 2 weeks. I had it briefly over new year but it went. Now, it’s back and doesn’t seem to want to go and it’s changing. To begin with when I woke up I physically could not lift my head off my pillow and when I finally managed to get up I found myself clawing my way around the house with my brain constantly telling my body to ‘go left!’. Now, I am able to get up on a morning and make my husband a cup of tea before he goes off to work but the vertigo is slowly creeping in. And, though they last pretty much all day they do seem to become reduced in the evening when my dizziness is replaced with exhaustion and I’m yawning all night. Needless to say I’m fantastic company for my poor long-suffering husband - not! My symptoms don’t seem quite as strong but they are more prolonged.My brain really has no idea which way up I am, it’s crazy!
Has anyone any advice or any ideas on how I can cope with these symtoms better because at the moment I get up, get ready if I feel able, and do nothing all day? Saying that, I can’t imagine what else I could possibly do other than read and post on this website.
Jenny Mac
I have suffered a few times, prior to diagnosis. Horrible symptom, I do sympathise. My Doctor gave me some tablets that really helped, but I can’t remember what they were called. Have you been to see your GP? If not, it might be worth a visit xx
Hi Anonymous,
I have suffered with dizziness for some time now and it is horibble. Some days are worse than others but it is there in some form or another all the time. I have been told the damage is in my brain and not damaged eye or ear nerves. All the different medication I have been given just does not work. The last one I tried was prochloraperazine which I know works for a lot of people. You need to speak with your MS nurse/doctor/neurologist and get help. I really do hope you get some relief from it because to other people you look as though nothing is wrong but the suffering is no less than being in pain in all of its many guises.
Hope all goes well for you but know that you are not alone.
Steve
Betahistine works well for me
Hi Anon
The case of Vertigo I experienced in 1998 was like ‘Hell on Earth’. It lasted for about 4 weeks. As long as I sat motionless and fixed, I was fine, but as soon as I moved my head, it was ghastly. I never want to experience that feeling again.
Buccastem- the prochloraperazine mentioned by Steve Dalton worked very effectively for me and as soon as I started on that treatment, I could actually move around far more comfortably.
Hope you start to feel better soon.
Tracyann xx
I have constant vertigo and take BetaHistine for it. Works a treat 
Yep i had a vertigo episode last June and Betahistine was the best for me!