Comments on: Are They Ministrokes, a Brain Tumor or Vertigo?

By: Joe

Joe — Thu, 11 Feb 2010 21:38:40 +0000

I had all the symptoms that Joanne had and all the same concerns. My first attack was about three years ago. It frightened me terribly. I thought the worst but after a couple of hours it passed. Two weeks later I had another and they progressed from there. In the meantime I lost 40% of the hearing in my right ear. The doctor sent me to the usual specialists who recommended balance/hearing tests, etc., and an MRI. I followed all the doctors orders and after one severe attack or episode as I prefer to call them, my wife called an ambulance, fearing they might be TIA’s. After putting me through all the tests at the hospital they found nothing that would suggest a TIA or any heart condition and concluded it was an inner ear problem of some kind, which I had greatly preferred over the TIA. So it was actually pretty good news. I read online about many possible cures and I tried most if not all, trying to stay away from prescription drugs. Nothing stopped them as I was now having almost one a day. One day at church an 82 year old friend mentioned that he had the vertigo problem since his youth and he often dropped to the floor with them. His chiropractor son suggested quite recently that he try a product, all natural, two small pills a day, that stopped his vertigo in it’s tracks. I asked him to get me a bottle and I am a very excited 80 year old today because it has done the same for me. I haven’t had a single episode since I started taking them. The beautiful thing about them is they are all natural, have no side effects, do not interfere with any drugs and have a multitude of other health benefits too numerous to mention. I don’t know if this blog allows me to give my e mail address should you want more info. If so, it is papajoeu@aol.com. I will glady give you any info I have. It is a miserable condition and I know how desperate people are for help.

Joe

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 16:03:09 +0000

Glad my post helped, Heather. I think supplementing with magnesium has been helping me. I’m still getting dizzy, but much lighter and doesn’t last as long.

By: Heather

Heather — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 15:56:42 +0000

Thanks for the post Joanne. I have been experiencing vertigo for about the past two years, once or so every couple of months. However, lately it has increased and has effected me now, while driving, in my gym class, and even just sitting on the couch at home. I decided it’s time to go to the doctors. I have appointments in the next few weeks with an ear doctor, but of course my mind is going crazy thinking the worst…
I liked Kays input too, I have noticed that it happens, around the time of my ovulation and before my period, and is heightened with stress.
Anyway, your posts helped me calm down a bit until my appointments. Thanks.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Tue, 22 Dec 2009 17:09:59 +0000

I found this article about how a woman cured her vertigo with magnesium and water. I have suspected a magnesium deficiency for some time now and have been supplementing. We'll see how it goes.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:51:33 +0000

David, that sounds suspiciously like low blood pressure. Though that involuntary knee trembling is odd.

By: David

David — Mon, 16 Nov 2009 02:34:54 +0000

Maybe of no real relevance to the article above, but I’ve been having the occasional bouts of giddiness/vertigo for the past 3/4 years. They only occur when I spring up from a long-term sitting position – usually from working on my PC. The mildest symptom is a feeling of light-headedness that only lasts 10 seconds, but the more intense ones involve some involuntary knee trembling and can last up to a minute. There are no subsequent effects that I am aware of. My blood pressure is OK, but I use maintence BP lowering drugs following a mild heart attack about 10 years ago. I recovered from that without surgery.
As I am now 75, I think that these bouts are probably just symptoms of aging. If I really thought that they were the pre-cursors of something worse, I would seek medical advice.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 00:49:06 +0000

Thanks for posting that, Kay. It might help others who land on this page.

I found out that mine were from drinking too many mochas at Starbucks. When I have one every day I start getting the dizzy spells. Either something’s in the mocha or just the sugar is setting me off. I’m still struggling with giving them up though.

By: Kay

Kay — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 22:53:29 +0000

I know this is an old post and perhaps you’ve gotten more info since may, but I wanted to chime in that I experience bouts of vertigo from time to time (couple times a month).

When I first started having them the doctors checked my ears (no BPPv). They checked my heart. They did a CAT scan and an MRI – all fine. I saw an ophthalmologist who ruled out inter-cranial pressure which might cause “Pseudotumor Ceribri.” They ruled out TIAs too.

Ya know what it is, when all that was said and done?

Migraine.

I get the migraine aura of vertigo, numb face and nausea – but I don’t get a headache.

The final clue (but not always reliable) was that the attacks were coming a couple of times a month around ovulation and the start of my period.

Just thought I’d throw that out there, just in case the info might help.

From a fellow Paleo dieter who gets dizzy and loves metaphysics.

By: Joanne

Joanne — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:38:09 +0000

Thanks a lot. And thanks for the book recommendation. It's right up my alley and has great reviews. I've added it to my Amazon wish list.

By: Emergefit

Emergefit — Wed, 13 May 2009 23:15:58 +0000

Excellent post, with a capital EXCELLENT. You might add to your reading list, The Balance Within by Esther Sternberg. A bit too science-minded (damn doctors tend to be that way), but a reasonable chronical of the healing powers of the positive mind, intermingled with concepts of modern medicine.

As man has evolved, we have forsaken the gift of thought in exchange for the curse of thought. This is how I feel.