Can Vertigo get worse as time goes on?

Hi Darren 

I do hope you improve soon, it been 9 weeks for me now and it certainly is no better, actually the sickness has got a lot worse since it all started, I have the very odd day when there seems to be an improvement and I have a hope that iam on the mend but the next day iam back where I started. Doing the exersice three times a day for weeks now but no signs of improvement yet, so I await my appointment to the rebalance team and pray things will get better soon so I can carry on a life which iam not doing at the moment, I do wish you luck and good health, I will never take good health for granted again.

bye for now schampie

This may be a long shot, but I have been researching gluten sensitivity/celiac and its symptoms.  Interestingly enough... vertigo is listed as one of them.  Celiac is often underdiagnosed, on average taking 10 years of repeated doctors visits with multiple diagnosis.  When all along the real culprit is what we are eating...gluten.  My brother is an undiagnosed celiac who stopped gluten and felt 95% better within a week.  I have suffered with migraines, vertigo, joint pain, malabsorption and weight loss for years.  I recently ordered the DNA testing on myself and it came back as having the Celiac & the non gluten sensitivity genes.  It doesn't always have to be gut related.

Just a thought...

If your'e Irish, like I am...your chances of having the Celiac/NCGS genes are even higher.

Hi Darren, not sure how long you have had this. Mine was undiagnosed for several weeks. I was told I had BPV and did all those head positional exercises, but it persisted. I was prescribed Serc which gave me vice gripping headaches. After countless trips to the hosptial and clinics, was told it was a middle ear infection that damaged one of my facial and auditory nerves. Long story short, the Serc worked but was prescribed wrong in how it was to be taken. The nerves have repaired somewhat. The ENT described it as having to fly a plane with one engine. If I have a particularly dizzy day, over the counter motion sickness tablets help. Bottom line I had a virus or sinus infection that caused labryinthitis which was undiagnosed causing the vestibular neuritis (related but not the same as Bells Palsy)