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misskerry

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HI
Does annyone here suffer from vertigo??

Just been to the doctor and she said i had vertigo. I was really dizzy and felt awful sick while riding today.

I spend alot of time riding horses at work and my own horses. I am a little nervous that if it continues i wont be able to ride which would be devasting as I dont know anything else

Does it affect your riding much if you have it. And what do you do to help stop it??

Thanks in advance for any replys
 
I started to suffer from vertigo/labyrynthitis after an operation last October. It did affect my riding but improved fairly rapidly. It took a few months to get back to feeling vaguely normal but the worst of it resolved in around 2 weeks. I tried riding but found that the drugs they put me on actually made it worse! I cant tolerate anything antihistamine based so ended up sleeping most of the day, too exhausted to get on the horse. So i got prescribed some alternative anti sickness meds and after the initial period of feeling really bad i just carried on. I avoided any high risk activities, so stuck to gentle work in the school ensuring people knew where i was and when i should be back at the yard. no jumping or fast work. I am lucky to have a vaguely steady, not too bouncy horse!

I believe after a month of starting with it I competed in Prelim dressage tests and went in the straight line most of the time!

My main issue is now lying down but feeling as if i am hanging in a hammock on a ship. Not particularly pleasant but manageable!

I find it does come back after any 'life events' as the doctor put it, so after my second operation it came back, but it settles down faster for every subsequent attack. The recent attack only really affected me for a couple of days.

I hope you are feeling better soon, it really is debilitating and i know other people didn't see anything wrong with me and just thought i was making a mountain out of a molehill! Mine got a little better everyday so im hoping yours resolves rapidly.
 
Pretty much as Super Teds says.

Avoid cantering in dappled light as it confuses the senses and avoid getting tired (difficult I know). I could ride a bike, horse and drive my car but when I got off I fell over. Honestly I looked like I was drunk (tricky when getting out of a car :eek:).

I found car headlights, chocolate, stress and going in lifts all set it off.

Have you had a cold, ear infection? Vertigo from these types of infections clears up much quicker than from other sources (mine was from an operation to repair my jaw bone which required much chiselling and this upset the crystals in my ears).

ETS - If you can just take it steady when you feel an attack coming on and take deep breaths it will pass. I can remember lying on the kitchen floor hanging on for grim death and still thinking I was falling. Grim.
 
Thank you for you replys and pms.

I havent been sick or anything the doctor said it can just come on.. She also said it could take a while to go away and come back at anytime. SHe wasnt very worried about it but when I told what I did for a living she went "o" I might need to take a break.. Im a trekking guide and spend 7+ hours riding everyday it would not look very professionsl if the guide falls of the horse in the middle of a trek at a walk ha ha.
O I really hope it goes away as I am entered for a show in away wee and spent the last month getting the horses ready
 
A lady on my yard suffers from labrynthitis occasionally and it does go away. Hope yours goes soon - I agree, it's not the ideal job for this condition!
 
I suffer from Meniere's disease, one of the symptoms of which is vertigo. I can have an 'attack' anytime, it usually comes on without much warning and can last anything from a few hours to a week. I have medication that I take as soon as I feel the attack coming on which will usually ward off/shorten an attack, but I don't ride whilst I have the symptoms. Given what you do for a living, can your doctor not give you anything? I take prochlorperazine which is used as an antiemetic for the treatment of nausea and vertigo.
 
She gave me stemetil to help with dizzyness and sikness (lets hope it helps).. But she seem confident that it will go away in a week but anyone I have spoken to about it all say it doesnt exactly go away. I sure i will find some way of managing it.

I hope i am panicking over nothing
 
Google cawthorn cooksie exercises. They stimulate your vestibular system to get your ears in tune with your eyes in tune with your brain. They make you feel a bit crap (well bloody awful) but if you stimulate the senses they learn and adapt!!!

I've had labyrinthitis it's so horrible but it seems settled at the moment. I get awful motion sickness still though.
 
Look up Mr Peter Rae, The London Road Clinic in Leicester. He is one of the worlds leading specialists on vertigo, I have been to see him with my vertigo, and he does a certain manoeuvre with my neck, which rebalances the inner ear re the crystals which get into the wrong area to cause the vertigo.

He is anti drugs, he explained the reasons why, I also do certain exercises to keep it at bay, and sleep with three pillows, as I can't lie flat.

I have a condition called BNPV, which was caused by a riding accident thirty years ago, and it was the knock on effect from the concussion.

When I have an attack, I can still ride as my vertigo only effects me when I lie down, but it makes me very tired as the brain is constantly having to adjust, re balance.

There are a few doctors in the country who can do the manoeuvre , it is called the Epley manoeuvre, and the exercises I do when needed are called Brandt daroff exercises.
 
I have had it but only the once and it lasted about a week. Hopefully that will be the case for you. I woke up with it one morning and couldn't even stand up without being sick. Trying to walk in a straight line was impossible and I kept veering off to the right! If you stand with your eyes closed and arms down straight do you start leaning one way? Very odd feeling.
As I say hopefully it will pass quickly for you x
 
I've had vertigo diagnosed as idiopathic vestibular syndrome 6 years ago. Which means they have no idea what causes it. My god sends are my beta histamine tablets from the doctor and also a decongestant. Guess sinuses are involved? If I don't have my tablets some times the decongestant works.

My worst episode lasted for 6 months 😟but the specialist actually recommended riding to make the middle ear work! Since I started riding regularly I haven't had an attack ( touching wood)

I feel your pain for people not believing there's anything wrong with you. I lost a job because my boss thought I was pretending
 
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