Are infections and and colds the only things that may trigger an attack from bpp!
Question:
Are infections and and colds the only things that may trigger an attack from bppv (vertigo)?
i have been suffering from bppv or vertigo since i was about 5 or 6 years old and every time i have ever had an attack its been whenever i have been under alot of stress or upset. and never after a cold or anything like that. and the only time that the attack begins is when i am sleeping. never when i have been awake. but for some reason while its happening all i can do is sleep and it feels as if i have been given some sort of drug and i cant wake up or even stay awake no matter how hard i try. and when the attacks had first begun as a child i would always have the same nightmare everytime prior to an attack. and no as an adult the attacks have become more sevear than ever. to where my body will start to feel like it is overheating and if i try to move at all i faint
Answers:
BPPV in childhood is most frequently caused by damage caused by an accident or vestibular neuritis, viral including Herpes, or labrynithitis, bacterial rather than the debris in the inner ear canals of older people.
The history you give here does not begin with movement but does indicate a lesion induced partial seizure needs to be ruled out as well as recurrent viral vestibular neuritis , among other less likely problems.
The diagnosis for each involves different physical signs and testing, and the treatment is different.
Even if BPPV is one of the symptom complexes here it is not postural (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) alone.
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The most cost effective approach to avoid missteps that may not arrive at the definitive diagnosis of all that is going on here is to go to a neurologist, rather than an ENT.
Until you have the cause of this, you do not have the most effective treatment and relief of it.
I encourage you, do not give up and accept an off the cuff diagnosis that does not go through each step of the testing needed to arrive at a definitive diagnosis and specific treatment. The steps to arrive at this are specific, accept no short cuts. Anything less would miss the diagnosis of a treatable condition.