I know someone who spent months with on and off vertigo and still gets dizzy, something about crystals in their ear? My Dad also had vertigo for a while, and that was off and on for months as well. Someone he knew had it so bad for so long they had to stop work. I'm thankful to have never had it (and to have never been knocked out!).

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

But the germs aren't smaller, I mean if a kid gets attacked by a bear...

The crystals thing is sweet as, BPPV, it's when crystals land on these balance-sensing hairs in your inner ear and give you vertigo, but there's this short maneuver exercise you do that dislodges them and shifts them somewhere else. I've had it a few times in my life and always shifted them no problem.

Some people get recurring BPPV and apparently you need a physio to help with some other manouver if they're in a hard to reach place.

But with a virus its when the actual part of your ear with the hairs in it gets inflamed and messes them up, can be for weeks, an unlucky few never recover properly. The manouvers don't touch it. Then the third cause is this thing called a vestibular migraine some people just get.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago (1 children)

For that person they didn't do the exercises as often as they were supposed to and it didn't get better, but also it turned out they had a brain tumour so it's hard to say if it really was the crystals 🫤

[–] liv@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (1 children)

Maybe it was the brain tumour, that poor person! The crystals usually get dislodged in just a few iterations (sometimes 1), it's not like building up muscles. As far as I know.

[–] Dave@lemmy.nz 2 points 6 months ago

Might be the brain tumour, but it was cut out and the balance issues didn't go away so hard to know.