I had the weirdest thing happen to me a month or so ago.
Every now and then when I would lie down in my bed, the room would start jumping up and down. Not dizzy, and spinning, but really moving up and down fast and it took a minute to settle down.
Then, one day I was reaching for something in a lower cupboard, and had my head bent sideways to see in, and bam! The room started jumping and I went down to the floor like a ton of bricks. I didn’t even remember falling, I just lost all control and went down. Thankfully I didn’t bash my head. Natalie and Matt had to come over and help me up after I sat for 10 minutes to get my bearings.
So, I did some digging to find out what the heck happened. Well, it seems that if you use one of those little pounding machines on your back, especially in the neck area, it’s possible to loosen a bit of dry material inside your ear and a little piece can find its way into the tube in your ear. If this happens, it throws you completely off - instant vertigo, but temporary (thankfully).
It’s called BPPV. When I had the room jumping experiences, it was when Audrey would give me a massage with that machine, and that one day I asked her to do my neck (it was sore from holding my head a certain way, knitting) and she did it for a long time. That’s what did it lol. It’s loosened calcium crystals moving to the ear tube.
Needles to say, no more neck pounding for me!
Wow, that’s scary. I’m glad you figured out what it is. It’s amazing how well we do with how many things can go wrong with our bodies.
I am blaming my dizziness on my anemia.
Do you know how Docs cure benign vertigo?
They put you on a tilt table, and stops it at the point that
makes you dizzy, and then they LEAVE you like that until
your dizziness finally stops.
I let a Doc do that to me once...ONCE!!
I was so mad, I told him all about his ancestry!
“You son of a .........
I invited him to perform an unnatural sex act upon himself.
You take that tilt tables and *&^%$$# it!
“Go play in the traffic!”
You must LOVE ducks, ‘cause you’re a QUACK!”
That was while I was getting dressed-the receptionist was hiding under her desk and waving a white flag...
You get the idea.....
*evil grin*
If someone even tries to touch my neck I cringe. I won’t let anyone touch my neck even if it is sore.