Vertigo, Spinning, Big Headache

[TylerW2007]

Okay, my girlfriend, lately, has been experiencing random bouts of vertigo (even while on the computer), when she closes her eyes she says it feels like she's spinning at 100mph, and she has big headaches.

She had drank more than 5 glasses of quad whiskey and coke everyday for about a week, because she said it's fun to get pissed (british slang for drunk, she's a brit)

So now she thinks it may be alcohol poisoning or epilepsy because her mother has epilepsy and this is kind of how she found out. Help!

[Deeshark]

I have classic complicated migraines and dizziness and vertigo are symptoms that I experience.  She may want to try Topomax.   It has been a lifesaver for me.  I will say that alcohol only increases all migraines symptoms including and especially the dizziness associated with this.  Tell her not to waste her time with internists and family practitioners.  They can do little to diagnose, let alone help migraine patients.    I have found, unfortunately, that they like to dabble, and don't like to direct their patients accordingly!  I was told so many times that I must have an inner ear infection that I ended up getting an MRI, only to discover no ear infection - but the migraines that I had suspected all along and was told by my internist "migraines don't make you dizzy".  During my first appointment with my neuro he said "it (vertigo and dizziness) is one of the most common symptoms of the classic complicated migraine" and that I was a "poster child" for them.  She needs to see a neurologist as soon as she can.  

She may be using the alcohol as self medication to  treat the anxiety and depression that accompany this kind of migraine symptom.  There is no worse "out of control" feeling than this one.

Good luck to you both!

[Bee_Positive]

Although drinking does not help it, but I doubt that it's the cause. I have the same problem and having my sinuses and ears checked.

[Oye Vay]

well though drinking is funfor her it certainly isn't going to help w/her vertigo
epilepsy is not vetigo its a form of seizures a disorer, though vetigo maybe a symptom
now something as simple as an ear infection can can be causing vertigo like symptoms and straining eyes can cause this too
has she had her eye sight checked?
She may want to see a dr anr or a neurologist and really cut back on drinking