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.