Another aspect of dizziness/vertigo

[Guest guest]

I found the following site when investigating reasons for my

brothers vertigo. The self treatment - about halfway down the

page - is something similar to what the doctor prescribed for

him. In this article hypotension is not the culprit.

http://www.american-hearing.org/name/bppv.html

Canary Peg

Occurrence among older folks is probably related to a

> less sharp physiological response to the change from rising

suddenly and

> lower than typical BP. .........................

>

To add a curve ball, I have even experienced a third

> rather unusual mechanism for dizziness (actually a phantom

sense of motion)

> caused by a loose piece of bone moving loose inside an inner

ear organ that

> the brain uses to sense head motion. No doubt a sports injury

broke one of

> these calcium nodules loose

[Guest guest]

That sounds like the same deal, and I'm too lazy to dig out the original

website's) that I researched. This happened to me a few years ago. My

personal events were triggered by sitting up after doing bench presses so of

course my first suspicion was BP but that wasn't it.

I don't feel like the link you referenced described what is going on

completely. This problem is related to the organ in your inner ear that

provided feedback to the brain that your head is moving. Small calcium

masses are loosely held in a fluid with hairs that sense movement. Like

small accelerometers they sense when the head is moving (actually rate of

change of head movement)by shifting slightly. When one of the calcium masses

is floating around loose a small shift in head position will cause an

exaggerated movement relative to the sensing hairs confusing the brain into

thinking that the head is moving when in fact it isn't. The brain corrects

visual input for movement that didn't happen causing the room to appear to

be moving when it isn't.

The remedy was remarkably simple. A pattern of specific head positions

caused the free floating calcium mass to lodge in a narrow part of the

canal. Once it is immobilized you stop getting the false inputs. My

recollection of the head positions that worked for me were also different

(more extreme) than in the link. It did take a few days to get it to clear.

The human body is a remarkable machine with far more computing going on that

you might think.

JR

-----Original Message-----

From: Peg Diamond [mailto:enmuffins@...]

Sent: Wednesday, July 07, 2004 11:22 AM

Subject: [ ] Another aspect of dizziness/vertigo

I found the following site when investigating reasons for my

brothers vertigo. The self treatment - about halfway down the

page - is something similar to what the doctor prescribed for

him. In this article hypotension is not the culprit.

http://www.american-hearing.org/name/bppv.html

Canary Peg

Occurrence among older folks is probably related to a

> less sharp physiological response to the change from rising

suddenly and

> lower than typical BP. .........................

>

To add a curve ball, I have even experienced a third

> rather unusual mechanism for dizziness (actually a phantom

sense of motion)

> caused by a loose piece of bone moving loose inside an inner

ear organ that

> the brain uses to sense head motion. No doubt a sports injury

broke one of

> these calcium nodules loose

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