Another Silly Question

Okay, so being that I've been diagnosed for a year and a half +, you'd think I'd know a lot more by now. But, I'm learning! So, I've had vertigo several times in the past, but just blew it off. I didn't even realize that it had anything to do with MS until recently. However, I'm not sure if this is MS related. I mean, how does vertigo from an ear infection or something feel differently from that from MS? My ears don't hurt or anything, and I haven't been sick, other than my current relapse. The weird thing is that it only seems to hit me when I lie down, especially when I turn my head, or if I'm sitting down and tip my head back. It sometimes happens when I stand up or sit up, but mostly the opposite. Does this sound like it's more an ear thing? Or does anyone else have vertigo that happens like this? I've only ever had an ear infection once, that I know of, and I didn't even know I had it. I went for something totally different (this was not long before I found out I had cancer) years ago, and was told that my "throat is a little red and my ears a little pink" and was put on antibiotics. Well, I was a smoker then, too. Duh! Anyway, I'm done rambling. Any opinions on this?

[PastorDan]

I'm no doc, but if I were to guess, I'd look at something called BPPV, which stands for Benign P-something P-something Vertigo.  I think one of those words is paroxysmal and one is positional, or something like that.  it has to do with the way you tilt your head, I think, and has something to do with those semicircular canals in the middle ear that we were supposed to have learned about in high school.  I think maybe they get blocked, and there are some maneuvers that can unblock them.  Good questions to bug your doc about (after you research here!) ;D.

[saveone]

Good going Pastor Dan :)  You know more than you think.  

I have vertigo, bouts of it.  Some are severe.  I don't know how one would determine if it is related to the inner ear or the MS without seeing an ENT, which is why I am seeing one at 2pm today.  If it is an inner ear thing in some cases you can do some balance training to assist with reduces the symptoms.  I would think there would also be some medications in some cases.

Either way I would bring it up with my doctor and see an ENT to rule in/out inner ear problems.

terry