Ok, this has been super-weird and outside of my experience entirely, so I turn to you, my friends, to crowd-source hypotheses & remedies
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Maybe a mild GI infection messing up your salt balance? I'm just guessing.
The worst vertigo I've ever had was from an inner ear infection. (In my case a mild cold that got into my vestibular system and turned everything to goo.) It took about three days to feel mostly normal but there were vestigal effects that tailed off for months.
Other things that have I experienced as a cause for vertigo; - drug side-effects - Benign Postional Vertigo caused by calcium flecks in the inner ear. I've never had that clear up on it's own, so probably not that. - A friend recently sent me some papers that concluded menopause causes an increased incidence of vertigo because changing estrogen levels means one's body has to figure out how to deal with calcium all over again.
the_siobhan, I'm glad you commented -- I was about to consult you!
porcinea, that sounds horrible, and I'm so sorry that you have to go through that experience!
From your description, I'm also guessing that this may have been a viral infection that affected your inner ear as well as your GI system . . . hopefully it won't recur.
I would guess food poisoning of some kind, which causes nausea and sometimes dehydration (which in turn causes vertigo).
I had mild vertigo and nausea during peri-menopause, which I mostly treated with ginger (which soothes nausea and allowed me to keep down liquids).
Dizziness can also be a symptom of an allergy (my ears stop up even before my sinuses do), and I used to discover new allergies when I traveled. If it happens again, you may want to try an antihistimine/decongestant combination.
I'm hoping it was just a brief bug and is over now.
Ugh. I'm betting some kind of electrolyte imbalance, which can happen despite or even because of massive hydration. The fact the your intestines got all the water is a possible clue.
I've had plenty of alcohol-related vertigo, also some positional stuff that seems like positional hypotension, also occasional dehydration lightheadedness (today, for example) but not really vertigo.
Completely left-field possibility: how are you on vision correction?
I've occasionally had something vaguely similar, and have never actually considered sitting down and thinking about what caused it.
But, well, going about this logically: that last bit was, I think, your immune system purging something -- screwing with your internal thermostat to mess up invading pathogens, dumping everything in the GI tract, all that. And it seems to have worked.
So, could be some sort of rhinovirus that decided to go live in your inner ear for a couple days until your body finally decided to Do Something About It, which worked.
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The worst vertigo I've ever had was from an inner ear infection. (In my case a mild cold that got into my vestibular system and turned everything to goo.) It took about three days to feel mostly normal but there were vestigal effects that tailed off for months.
Other things that have I experienced as a cause for vertigo;
- drug side-effects
- Benign Postional Vertigo caused by calcium flecks in the inner ear. I've never had that clear up on it's own, so probably not that.
- A friend recently sent me some papers that concluded menopause causes an increased incidence of vertigo because changing estrogen levels means one's body has to figure out how to deal with calcium all over again.
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porcinea, that sounds horrible, and I'm so sorry that you have to go through that experience!
From your description, I'm also guessing that this may have been a viral infection that affected your inner ear as well as your GI system . . . hopefully it won't recur.
*hugs all around*
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I had mild vertigo and nausea during peri-menopause, which I mostly treated with ginger (which soothes nausea and allowed me to keep down liquids).
Dizziness can also be a symptom of an allergy (my ears stop up even before my sinuses do), and I used to discover new allergies when I traveled. If it happens again, you may want to try an antihistimine/decongestant combination.
I'm hoping it was just a brief bug and is over now.
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I've had plenty of alcohol-related vertigo, also some positional stuff that seems like positional hypotension, also occasional dehydration lightheadedness (today, for example) but not really vertigo.
Completely left-field possibility: how are you on vision correction?
finger crossed.
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But, well, going about this logically: that last bit was, I think, your immune system purging something -- screwing with your internal thermostat to mess up invading pathogens, dumping everything in the GI tract, all that. And it seems to have worked.
So, could be some sort of rhinovirus that decided to go live in your inner ear for a couple days until your body finally decided to Do Something About It, which worked.
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