Quote Originally Posted by crazycanuck View Post
Hi,

(I finally saw my dr today about the dizzy spells i've had since i injured myself. )

He said that i am experiencing BPV-Benign positional vertigo & recommended the Brandt & Daroff exercises.

I'm just wondering if anyone else has experienced this & did the exercises??

Did you have someone at home help you?? Also, i guess i should do this before i have dinner?? How bad are the dizzy spells when you first start the exercises???

Thanks.

BTW..i'm not just relying on the recommended exercises, I start accupunture next week.

C
I had a bike wreck in MAY 2007 and suffered with BPPV and TMJ for 5 months before FINALLY getting proper treatment to cure the problems!!! I have been VERTIGO-free for over 6 weeks!!!

Yes, my doctor had me doing B&D excersises, 3X a day, for 6 weeks, along with anitbodics medicine (sorry, can't remember name). It was not helping because the excerises simply moved my calcium crystals around my inner ear tubes, causing me to spin, and the medicine stiffled the symptoms but did not cure anything. To be cured of BPPV, you have to get the calcium crystals back into their pouch where they belong and keep them there -- otherwise if they stay loose they move around in the 3 inner ear tubes and cause you to be off-balance and spin/get dizzy.

OK, I found a MIRACLE WORKER!!! I looked up Vertigo on-line and found that there are trained PT specialists for vertigo. They are trained to do the Epley Manuever, forcing your calcium crystals to go back where they belong! I also had a friend who was in a car crash a few years back and suffered with BPPV and she called to tell me about the local vertigo specialist -- the same person I found on-line during my research. Through her treatment, which I needed to do twice before the crystals "settled", and additional home therapy balancing exercises, I do not spin.

PLEASE research if a physical therapist or doctor is trained in the Epley Manuveur in your area -- it will get you VERTIGO-FREE!!!!