Cold, Headache, Vertigo while sleeping - HELP!!

[mom022]

I've been waking up quite often at night with Vertigo - the room will be spinning.  I have had this headache for about three days now and i've got a bad cold.  I'm wondering if this is all connected.    I'm wondering if I should go to the doctor or wait it out until my cold goes away.  Any advice would be appreciated!!!

[Enoch Choi, MD]

the maneuver he did: "put my head in both hands, turned my head one way and lay me down quickly while looking at the pupils of my eyes. One side was ok, the other made my dizzy" is called a positive result for a positional nystagmus test, which confirms benign positional vertigo.  It can benefit from the epley or sermont maneuver to get the ossicles freed up and unstuck

[CarmenD]

Hi, I'm 52 years old and am on medication for high blood pressure. I just came back from emergency last night. A few day after getting a cold, I woke up with vertigo when I attempted to stand up. Enough that I fell back in bed. For the next 2 nights, I woke up a 5:00 am with vertigo. Dizziness got worse, the more I moved the move it got worse.  At the end of 4th day, when I went to lay down at night, the room started spinning again.
My husband called ambulance and after seeing doctor he told me I had Labyrithitis. They did a ekg, monitored blood pressure (was sky high) and he put my head in both hands, turned my head one way and lay me down quickly while looking at the pupils of my eyes. One side was ok, the other made my dizzy. He gave me a motion sickness pill and I lay there for an hour or so. Blood pressure returned to normal and dizziness got better. He prescribed Bonamine (for motion sickness) . I took one this morning and tonight. Feeling much much better. No more "lightheaded" feeling, (like being drunk) as well as diziness going away.. Hope this helps

[Enoch Choi, MD]

vertigo, headache and colds can be related.  if it gets bad, a doctor can do tests to see if it's something worse, like benign positional vertigo and can treat you with eppley's maneuver or sermont's maneuver to get the ossicles unstuck and moving again.