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Another One Bites The Dust...vertigo?

vbecton

By vbecton
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Adding to the pile of mounting issues since going gluten-free, I'm recovering from a bought of vertigo. Holly mother of spinning craziness! I have never had vertigo issues before until last night. I was sound asleep and lightly woke up to flip over and BAM, the room started spinning like a drunk tequila binge in college. I'm not trying to make light of this situation, but I'm pretty ticked at the issues that are mounting since going gluten-free. My energy, the exhaustion, funky blood tests, the reactions to foods, etc...

Anyone else suffer vertigo for over 15 straight hours? Do I need to be concerned? It is slowly fading, but I think it's just lurking and thinking about a comeback. Is this just gluten-free healing? I don't have any sinus issues, cough, or anything stuffy in my head that I could connect it to. Just wondering.

P.S. I have my capsule endoscopy on Tuesday. I've never been so excited about 10,000 photos of my guts being taken as I am for this. I hope I get copies :P

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Adding to the pile of mounting issues since going gluten-free, I'm recovering from a bought of vertigo. Holly mother of spinning craziness! I have never had vertigo issues before until last night. I was sound asleep and lightly woke up to flip over and BAM, the room started spinning like a drunk tequila binge in college. I'm not trying to make light of this situation, but I'm pretty ticked at the issues that are mounting since going gluten-free. My energy, the exhaustion, funky blood tests, the reactions to foods, etc...

Anyone else suffer vertigo for over 15 straight hours? Do I need to be concerned? It is slowly fading, but I think it's just lurking and thinking about a comeback. Is this just gluten-free healing? I don't have any sinus issues, cough, or anything stuffy in my head that I could connect it to. Just wondering.

P.S. I have my capsule endoscopy on Tuesday. I've never been so excited about 10,000 photos of my guts being taken as I am for this. I hope I get copies :P

Vertigo is the reason I started searching for answers.

kareng Grand Master
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You could have an inner ear infection. They don't always hurt. I had a friend that kept wobbling on her High heels. We kidded her about it but she said she was dizzy and everything was off. Had a horrible ear infection that took 6 weeks of antibiotics to get rid of .

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vbecton
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You could have an inner ear infection. They don't always hurt. I had a friend that kept wobbling on her High heels. We kidded her about it but she said she was dizzy and everything was off. Had a horrible ear infection that took 6 weeks of antibiotics to get rid of .

I guess I'll let the doc take a look. I've never had an ear infection in my entire life, but lately, stranger things have happened :)

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I second getting along to the dr, a friend of mine had a quick onset virus which basically hit her with vertigo for a couple of days, then wore off. She couldn't really walk for the first day or two, it was pretty dramatic, and she needed treatment to get better as it was affecting her inner ear.

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I had vertigo as the side effect of a virus once. The doctor gave me some meds that took care of it. The doctor said the virus had been going around and a lot of people had been coming in dizzy (on campus).

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When I first went gluten/casein free, the woozy, weird, the-earth-is-moving-but-I'm-not feeling was my cue that I had ingested something reactive. Although the dizzy feeling made me nervous to eat anything new, it also proved to be an excellent quick gauge. I never had to wait hours or longer to know that I shouldn't eat something again; all I had to do was take a couple bites and wait 5 minutes. The dizziness would last a few hours with decreasing intensity.

As my gut is healing, the dizziness has become less and less. My intestines and my brain are absolutely in sync.

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Yes, I have had the dizzy reaction also. All of mine were food reactions. The first one was several hours after I ate. I woke up with the room spinning. It lasted for 6 hours before I was able to get up and walk around. I also have to keep my eyes open during this time. I now avoid the foods that set it off. I am so afraid of it happening again.

Susan

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I've had vertigo and other odd sensations off and on for the past 18 months... all which started after going gluten-free, and I'm extremely careful about my diet and possible cc sources. None of the doctors I've seen can explain why it's happening. The EMT says my ears are fine, and I have no vitamin deficiencies. I'm assuming it's stress.

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