Tips on stopping vertigo episode before full blown

Apparently I have MV without headache. I have had 2 episodes about 18 months apart, both lasting at least 12 hours. This is the bucket in lap vomiting hour after hour and clutching things bc you are pitching so hard.

After recent episode with awesome PT specialist after useless ENT visit and disastrous Epley.

Anyway, probably never fully recover but now I can feel it coming on. I would like to hear what other people with EXTREME episodic vertigo do to avert an attack.

Last 2 days I have taken Zofran at first queasy, an Indera 60mg, klonopin .5, and meclizine and/or Phenergan if not helping.

I lie propped up with as little movement as possible. It is working but tries to return when meds wear off. I have had a headache but certainly not a migraine (been 15 years, Cymbalta seems to have cut that pain nerve even though haven’t taken in 10.?).

So thoughts at nipping an episode in the bud. I have classic MV visual disturbance, cobblestone, chevron, fast oncoming traffic, etc.

Kelly-Cincinnati

I am really sorry but I honestly don’t think there is anything that can stop an attack in its tracks. Reading others stories they, like me, suffered full blown attacks at one time or another for varying lengths of time. I think after a while you get to know what works for you whether it is staying still, medication, exercise, diet or all of them and also I think you and your brain learn acceptance and with that to stress less which also helps. It is a tough journey but it does get easier over time .

I agree. I don’t think theres a way to stop attacks but medicine can soften the blow. In addition you become less alarmed by them so they tend to torment you less.

I would also suggest that for many the frequency of them tends to drop over time. This seems to be the case for me. At one point I was getting several a week, now I’m one every six months.

I regularly get positional spins in bed though. But they don’t bother me so much. They feel just like BPPV and I’m told those tend to disappear over time.

Well poop. This is exhausting. Pretty sure this episode, still not to incapacity, was set off by dentist who, despite being asked not to, dropped my chair back suddenly, head below feet. But ears are ringing, pressure, headache. I don’t do vomiting vertigo for a few minutes or hours but at least 12 hours unless I get enough of something to knock me out. Usually phenagren.

I just cannot shut my eyes wo spinning unless medicated.

Nothing new in this post. As everyone here knows, unless you have had it, you cannot understand.

So sorry you have these horrid severe vertigo attacks too. My Dr said I could try a triptan, zolmatriptan, which I have now added to my armoury, as I had a severe spinning attack where I couldn’t move several weeks ago, after feeling almost completely better for several months.

I believe there is some evidence they might abort a vertigo attack if taken in the first half an hour. Besides that I try not to let my anxiety levels climb by using breathing and relaxation techniques.

Be interesting to hear if anyone out there has tried a triptan to abort a vertigo attack?