Vestibular rehabilitation

[YvonneM]

Has anyone been given exercies from the hospital for vertigo.
I am really having problems with one of them (sitting on the side of the bed and dropping onto my right side swinging my legs onto the bed) I am supposed to do this 5 times, twice a day. But I can't cope with the after effects it is making me really ill not just dizzy . The audiologist says it will reeducate my body to ignore the vertigo but this is not much good when you can't get out of the chair and feel sick all day. with a thumping headache HELP !!

[Sado]

I'm not sure I can help with the execises, but I was daiagnosed with Menieres some years ago, after, apparently, suffering it for years but mistaking some of the symptoms for those of migraine, from which I have suffered since puberty.
My body has learned to cope with and adjust to the vertigo, but it does take time. I remember that lying on the bed, as you described, would send me spinning off, feeling as if I was drunk. It was horrible, but I persevered, and now it doesn't really bother me. I look upon this problem as saving me a lot of money when I go on a night out. Who needs alcohol to feel dizzy?
Stick with it, and all the best.

[YvonneM]

Thanks for getting back to me. I am a very active person and feel that by just getting on with my life I will adjust. The exercises she gave make me feel really ill so that I can't function at all. I don't avoid picking things up off the floor or getting things off high shelves I don't use step ladders though in case I fall as you say time will help. I am not getting any dizziness when I go to bed at night or get up in the morning so I think my body is starting to adjust. The audiologist made me feel a bit of a wimp but I feel that the flopping on the bed was too aggressive. When I look back I have always suffered with headaches, couldn't tolerated fair ground rides even as a child, don't like walking over a pier when I can see the water underneath.

[Sado]

The last time I went on a fairground ride with my two young daughters, I just felt that I wanted to die!
But, trying not to look too wimpy, I carried on with the ride, but then collapsed in a sweaty heap on the grass when I got off. My daughters just thought it was funny.
Where's sympathy when you need it?