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[quote=Anonymous]This is what you have:  Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV).  I got mine in a car accident wherein our car was flipped.  Wikipedia it.  Crystals in your ear have become dislodged and are not placed correctly in your middle ear.  ENTs who were trained long after Desert STorm know how to treat this because they were allowed to study the middle ear of corpses of pilots who suffered for decades from benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.  They found these minute crystals displaced in the ear.  The problem is finding an ear doctor trained to treat it.  Older doctors don't know how to do it.  You need to call around and find an ENT who is an expert in this and has a proper chair to treat you (do not go to an ENT who says he can do it without the chair). First the ear doctor will ask you to show you the movement that you do that brings on the nausea or headache - in my case it was a particular right to left move that brought it on.  He then studies movements in your eyes while you make the movement.  My DW watched and said my eyes moved rapidly from right to left.  Then the ENT will strap you into the chair and reverse the movement you showed him - in my case it was a T-bone to my right and the car flipped several times.  He flipped me upside down and reversed what happened in the car accident; then he looks at the eyes again.  He keeps doing this until he is confident the crystals are back in place.  It took only one session and I was miraculous cured.  He said I might have a recurrence, which I did, but I went back and he strapped me in the chair again and redid the procedure and I was fine.  I would recommend him but he went back into academia.  But only certain ENTs are trained in this and have the chair.  Good luck![/quote]

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