Benign Positional Vertigo

anyone know anything about this, as far as dealing with or treating?

 

on top of everything else, my mom has this. she has been prescribed meclizine (as needed) but she hates it. its a histamine blocker/motion sickness drug and leaves her feeling spacey and restless. as you may or may not know, she is living with us for the time being after having suffered a severe stroke back in october. she has awakened us in the middle of the night on several occasions due to vertigo (that always happens in bed :banginghe ). we have kinda tricked it in a way by proping her head up with three pillows while she sleeps and she hasnt had an espisode in nearly a month. another strange coincidence is that it sometimes precedes the onset of a urinary tract infection. this has happened three times since february, the last being about a month ago also. its bad enough to really freak her out when it happens.

do you have vertigo mike?

 

my wife is dealing with it now...just came on like 2 weeks ago. doc told her that it is BPPV. I found some info on the web about it. Her eyes were dancing around in her head a little while ago and freaked my ass out bad.

Rubbed her head and she seemed soothed a little and fell asleep. She also has a heating pad under her neck, which seems to help also.

 

bumping hoping some of our medical friends an add some advice (thanks VI for your input).