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Benign Positional Vertigo
It happened to me about 10 years ago. I lowered my head down to sleep after a normal day and WHAM!! I had the most violent and disturbing bout of dizziness I have ever had. My eyes rolled uncontrollably as the room spun around and around with a dizziness intense enough to make me vomit. Following this initial episode I continued to have bouts of dizziness whenever I would lie on my right side or move my head suddenly.
If this experience sounds familiar then you probably have a condition called Benign Positional Vertigo (BPV). It’s a condition that I see quite regularly in my practice. While it is usually distressing for those afflicted it is not serious and is quite easy to treat.
BPV is distinguished mainly by two points.
1. The dizziness associated with BPV is always related to movement of the head or change in body position.
2. BPV dizziness has a fatiguing quality to it. The dizziness is most intense immediately after movement and then fades away.
The inner ear contains structures that give us a sense of position in relation to gravity. These structures are the semicircular canals. There are three canals for each ear positioned perpendicular to one another. This gives us three dimensions of position sense. The canals are filled with fluid and are lined with sensitive hair cells that detect movements of particles suspended within the fluid. The movement is picked up by the hair cells as the particles flow past them. In this way movements of the head are detected and we become aware direction within space even when our eyes are closed. It is theorized that the intense dizziness of BPV is caused when the particles stick together and form clumps. The clumps act like boulders within the semicircular canals and over stimulate the hair cells as they move past them. No one knows for certain what triggers the clump formation but it often correlates to recent colds or allergic reactions.
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