this post was submitted on 06 Oct 2024
328 points (99.1% liked)

Today I Learned

17777 readers
486 users here now

What did you learn today? Share it with us!

We learn something new every day. This is a community dedicated to informing each other and helping to spread knowledge.

The rules for posting and commenting, besides the rules defined here for lemmy.world, are as follows:

Rules (interactive)


Rule 1- All posts must begin with TIL. Linking to a source of info is optional, but highly recommended as it helps to spark discussion.

** Posts must be about an actual fact that you have learned, but it doesn't matter if you learned it today. See Rule 6 for all exceptions.**



Rule 2- Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material.

Your post subject cannot be illegal or NSFW material. You will be warned first, banned second.



Rule 3- Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here.

Do not seek mental, medical and professional help here. Breaking this rule will not get you or your post removed, but it will put you at risk, and possibly in danger.



Rule 4- No self promotion or upvote-farming of any kind.

That's it.



Rule 5- No baiting or sealioning or promoting an agenda.

Posts and comments which, instead of being of an innocuous nature, are specifically intended (based on reports and in the opinion of our crack moderation team) to bait users into ideological wars on charged political topics will be removed and the authors warned - or banned - depending on severity.



Rule 6- Regarding non-TIL posts.

Provided it is about the community itself, you may post non-TIL posts using the [META] tag on your post title.



Rule 7- You can't harass or disturb other members.

If you vocally harass or discriminate against any individual member, you will be removed.

Likewise, if you are a member, sympathiser or a resemblant of a movement that is known to largely hate, mock, discriminate against, and/or want to take lives of a group of people, and you were provably vocal about your hate, then you will be banned on sight.

For further explanation, clarification and feedback about this rule, you may follow this link.



Rule 8- All comments should try to stay relevant to their parent content.



Rule 9- Reposts from other platforms are not allowed.

Let everyone have their own content.



Rule 10- Majority of bots aren't allowed to participate here.

Unless included in our Whitelist for Bots, your bot will not be allowed to participate in this community. To have your bot whitelisted, please contact the moderators for a short review.



Partnered Communities

You can view our partnered communities list by following this link. To partner with our community and be included, you are free to message the moderators or comment on a pinned post.

Community Moderation

For inquiry on becoming a moderator of this community, you may comment on the pinned post of the time, or simply shoot a message to the current moderators.

founded 1 year ago
MODERATORS
top 28 comments
sorted by: hot top controversial new old
[–] [email protected] 96 points 1 month ago (2 children)

I got hit in college with a virus 30 years ago; a couple dozen of us, but they couldn't figure out the common carrier that got us all. Anyway, the damage to the vestibular system was permanent and it was a month or two before I could cope.

The brain has a vestibulo-ocular reflex that picks up when the vestibular is out. It uses the eyes and the horizon as a backup/correction to the bad data from the vestibular. Can confirm it works really well.

.. except when I'm really tired, like today. Bedspins while sober, and if I look up then I'm dizzy. It's super-great. But it works to remind me I'm over-doing it, and it usually resolves after a few days of good rest. until then, I just have to be careful lest I walk a bit like a bat-spin player.

In short, ya get used to it.

[–] [email protected] 15 points 1 month ago

Oh wow! Can I ask, does it stop you from doing certain activities? For example, are you able to drive?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Interesting. Does alcohol make it worse? Like...worse than alcohol normally would?

[–] [email protected] 3 points 1 month ago

Same thing happened to me as OP. I had only my left side affected, and it literally felt like I was drunk on the left side of my body. It was (is) the most frustrating thing I’ve ever dealt with. I also have a terrible tinnitus in my left ear that’s starting to show up in my right ear.

[–] [email protected] 63 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Holy fuck. This sounds exactly like what happened to me a year ago. One day, it came out of nowhere and I thought I was having a stroke. I was too dizzy to do anything and thought I might actually be dying.

After a month, it got a lot better but I still constantly get bouts of it, especially when I bend over. It makes playing with my kids incredibly difficult at times.

If it turns out I have BPPV and my doctors didn’t think to test me for THE MOST COMMON CAUSE of vertigo, ima be… unsurprised 😅

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm sure you've already looked up the exercise that helps reset those crystals, or at least i hope so This happens to my wife too, and it does the trick but i hear it doesn't always work. Does that method not give you relief?

[–] [email protected] 58 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Now learn about the epley maneuver.

[–] [email protected] 13 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Caloric stimulus is fun too, syringe of ice water in one ear and the pressure difference = mega drunk spins for 2 minutes

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Oh fuck that sounds awful.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

Yes it is awful. A bad bout of vertigo can be totally incapacitating. I’ve been hospitalized for it twice because it can lead to dangerously uncontrollable vomiting. I think it’s the worse thing you can get that isn’t likely to kill you.

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago

I had bppv a few months ago. It sucks but the epley stuff worked to clear it up.

[–] [email protected] 40 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It's pretty cool that the way you know which way down is, eyes closed, regardless of orientation, is snowglobes in your inner ears.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 1 month ago

Proprioception. One of the many senses we have in addition to the supposed "five senses."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proprioception

[–] [email protected] 39 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yep. It sucks. My doc joked that we all have rocks in our heads, har har.

It can sometimes be treated with a simple technique (more info below, also mentioned in the article above). When it works, it brings amazing relief.

Unfortunately it doesn't always work. An ENT specialist can help you with it.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epley_maneuver

[–] [email protected] 22 points 1 month ago (1 children)

The first time I encountered this, it scared the shit out of me. Only by rationally eliminating possibilities was I able to calmly dig in, learn about the Epley Maneuver, and get some relief.

It still pops up on occasion, but a couple of rounds of the Maneuver and I’m usually back to normal.

[–] [email protected] 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I'm good until part B where I have position my head from my body at a 135-degree angle. I'll have to go get a big protractor.

[–] [email protected] 19 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

John's Hopkins also discovered Superior Semicircular Canal Dehiscence when resolution of CT scans became high enough to detect fine cracks in bone around the tegmen and all that. SCD also worth a read. Sound doesn't properly dissipate and instead triggers the cells in the canals leading to sound-induced vertigo and supranormal low frequency hearing (being able to hear your eyeballs scratching against your eyelids etc). Before CT scans got good people got misdiagnosed with all sorts of anxiety type disorders

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago

Oh that sounds god awful. Poor people!

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 children)

I may have experienced this. A couple years ago I was getting over a cold. I blew my nose and instantly experienced severe vertigo. The room looked like it was spinning and it felt like I was on a boat in the middle of a rough storm. I nearly fell over. It took about 15 minutes for the sensation to fully expire.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I kinda wanna have that happen

[–] [email protected] 6 points 1 month ago

You do not. I would never wish vertigo on my worst enemy

[–] [email protected] 7 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Is that why I'm sometimes super dizzy for about a day for no apparent reason?

[–] [email protected] 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Give the epley maneuver a few tries and see if it gets better.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Assuming I remember the next time it happens. It's super rare but I guess I fix it unintentionally throughout the following night.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 1 month ago

I wonder if that's what happened to my dad... His hearing has been going bad for years, but right around when it started being noticable that everyone in the family was telling him to get hearing aids, he also was getting random bouts of vertigo.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 month ago

Can't rule out vestibular migraines. I didn't even know I was having them until I got a really bad headache with the other symptoms. Doctor was able to confirm it as that but it took quite awhile.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 1 month ago

That's why instead of drinking milk through my mouth, I ingest it aurally.