Brandt & Daroff Exercises for Positional vertigo

[Batbike]

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!!!!

[makbike]

I had a terrible case of vertigo last year - went through a battery of tests and treatments - they did not work. Had to wear a neck brace for 24 hours and sleep upright - no improvedment. Over the next few weeks things slowly improved and doctor decided i had probably picked up a nasty virus which settled in my inner ear or that the neck adjustments i had been receiving had disloged the stones in my inner ear - whatever the problem it did resolve itself and i was one happy camper!

[crazycanuck]

Hey,

Just want to let you know the BPV seems to have settled?? I didn't notice it last night nor this morning.

Thanks
C

[Tuckervill]

I had a terrible case of vertigo last year - went through a battery of tests and treatments - they did not work. Had to wear a neck brace for 24 hours and sleep upright - no improvedment. Over the next few weeks things slowly improved and doctor decided i had probably picked up a nasty virus which settled in my inner ear or that the neck adjustments i had been receiving had disloged the stones in my inner ear - whatever the problem it did resolve itself and i was one happy camper!

My son had a virus for about 10 days which caused him to be unable to walk straight. He was about 10 at the time so his description of symptoms was not thorough. I just remember wherever we had to go he had to lean against my shoulder or he would literally walk into the walls. The rest of the time he spent on the couch because he just couldn't do what he wanted to do. There were never any other symptoms. It was kind of scary--mystery virus, was all the doc could say.

Karen

[latelatebloomer]

Glad to hear your cyrstals have settled. I had vertigo brought on by a chiropractor snapping my neck around (then denying that the increasingly long dizzy spells had anything to do with it. I'll stick to acupuncture, thanks)
One spell was so bad that I wound up pulling over on a dark lonely country road, on my hands and knees, puking my guts out and having no idea what was wrong with me.) The home exercises cleared the problem in 2 sessions!