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ER visit yesterday morning

MARCC

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I woke up at 5am yesterday morning to go to the bathroom and when I opened my eyes, the room began to roll to the left like it was spinning fairly slowly. I closed my eyes and opened them again and the room kept moving continuously to the left. I woke my wife and told her I should go to the ER to be on the safe side. We got up and got dressed and off we drove. We arrived at St Joseph Medical Center in Towson Maryland around 6am. When we arrived; the ER was empty luckily. I registered and they took me back right away to triage. I explained my symptoms and the nurse told me to squeeze her hands as hard as I could as they were testing me for stroke symptoms. My strength was fine. Next another girl took blood and I was sent back to the waiting room. I was then taken for a chest x-ray and then I was called back quickly to a room and another nurse came in and hooked me up to a heart monitor and EKG. They put an IV in me and took more blood. The ER physician came in and we talked and he thought I had benign paroxysmal positional vertigo. He said he saw me walking and I was not walking like I had a stroke. He also tested me for a stroke. He had me lift and hold my legs up individually for 5 seconds, had me touch my nose with my finger and touch his finger with my finger, asked me the month we are in, etc. He then told me to lie down a certain way and he put my head and neck in a couple of positions and soon thereafter the vertigo went away. He also prescribed Meclizine for the Vertigo if it got bad. I called my concierge internal medicine physician and told him what happened and he said if needed a therapist could teach me the exercise to stop the Vertigo if it happens again. My total ER visit was 4 hours and I am back to work today. I was relieved when I got home and took a nap.
 

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I have BPPV. It's awful. I get really nauseated too when it hits.
 

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Wow that is amazing! I'm in awe of the medical care you got. This makes me realise how awful it is the UK! I would have arrived at a hospital a&e the wait would be at least 8hours if I'm lucky in a room packed with 30+ other people. They would have done some basic tests and said go home. I hope you are feeling better now. I've only had experience of the room spinning after a drink and it's terrifying. I also had no idea this could be linked to a stroke so thanks for the info.
 

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Oh wow, what a horrible experience and I’m sure even hella worse for a HA sufferer.
I’m glad all is well.
 

MARCC

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I went to my ENT physician yesterday because of what happened to me last week. I have been seeing my ENT physician
for around 30 years. He examined me and told me that I had a similar issue back in 2013. He told me I can watch a you tube video which
shows how to perform the Epley maneuver, which is proven to help or abate BPPV, a form of Vertigo, which I had an episode of. I hope I never have to do it.
 

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I remember my grandmother had to do exercises for her vertigo
 
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