u/amumureo

Hello everyone,

Posting again on here. I had two attacks last week, the second attack being triggered by the first attack not being fixed (but I think it’s fixed now as barely any residual dizziness and nothing with epley). My experience with BPPV was awful. Throwing up both times when I tried epley or even just sitting up in bed. The dizziness terrifying me. But even now after my attacks I’m so scared they’re going to come back. I keep giving myself panic attacks every time I feel a bit of dizziness thinking it’s come back. For example, last night I rolled onto my back started feeling a bit dizzy and couldn’t sleep for an hour because I was so scared. But I believe it’s just residual dizziness. How do I stop feeling so worried about having another attack? I’m buying vitamin D supplements today as I believe I’m deficient and hoping that helps.

I had my first BPPV attack last week, couldn’t sit up in bed without throwing up. It was the scariest thing I had ever experienced, like being on a 1000mph teacup ride. It eventually went away after a few days but forward a week later and I had another intense attack. All I did was bend down to stroke the dog.. I did the epley but the spinning was so intense it made me have a panic attack and throw up again. I managed to get a doctors appointment the same day, and they did some manoeuvres on me but nothing happened? No dizziness or sickness at all? They think that I fixed it myself when I did the epley in the morning but I’m genuinely terrified it’s going to come back I’m scared to move my head up or down at all. I’ve been doing the brandt daroff exercises twice a day since so I’m hoping that prevents it but I feel like I am just living in anxiety rn. Has anyone else experienced a recurring attack this quick? I’m thinking maybe I didn’t properly cure it last week and bending down triggered it again.

Context: I woke up this morning feeling like I was being pulled to the right. Thought not much of it as I’ve had that before and it usually went away after 5 minutes. I went back to bed for a while, got back up again and suddenly it was 100x worse. I couldn’t sit up without feeling insanely nauseous and I threw up twice from it. I phoned 111, they prescribed me some medication for the nausea and I got told to do these exercises which I’ve been doing but they made me throw up before I had the medication. I’m honestly quite terrified I’ve never had something like this before. I’ve had hearing issues in the past with lots of built up wax in my ear but that’s it. I’m worried I’ll still feel like this tomorrow and for the rest of the week which would be detrimental as I have university and a job interview. Any tips to solve this quickly? I’m also scared it’s something I’ll have to deal with again in the future.