After completing the exercises, I feel completely drained with a subdued feeling of motion sickness. After one week of the exercises I sense an improvement in severity of spinning while exercising. When I am on my right side the spinning recurs but not as severely as with the Epley Maneuver. When I do the Brandt-Daroff exercises there is no sensation at all on the left side. He also prescribed Meclizine but I can't tell that it helps any. He gave me some exercises called Brandt-Daroff to do at home in a set of five repeated twice daily. He hoped the Epley Maneuver would cure the condition completely but that I should feel at least 50% better. He then proclaimed that I was suffering from BPV and explained as much as he knew about the condition. I was holding on to anything I could reach and my doctor was holding on and telling me to bear with it a few seconds. I felt like I had been put on a top and someone pulled the string. We then repeated the maneuver on the right side and all hell broke loose. He first had me lie on my left side and look toward the ceiling and nothing happened. He was very familiar with my overall health situation but asked several questions and carefully examined my eyes, ears, nose throat BP, etc. I stopped and called my excellent PCP who worked me into his busy schedule that same afternoon. Three days later I attempted to change a shower head and received another severe shot of the dizziness. I went on for a couple of days with the dizziness returning periodically it would not go away completely. While trimming a tall shrub I needed to look up and became so dizzy I had to stop. The following morning I felt drained but went about doing some things outside. After resting a few seconds I was able to get back to my business. I got up about 3:00AM to go to the bathroom, staggered and almost fell to the floor before falling back on the bed. I seem to follow a pattern described in several comments. It has affected my work and personal life terribly. I feel like I am going to have to see another doctor for second opinion because I just can’t continue like this, it is terrible. I have also had stomach aches through this whole ordeal, and haven't been wanting to eat either. However she did no tests so I am not sure how I got the diagnosis. Followed up with the primary care physician and she diagnosed me with BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). It is 2 weeks later and I am still having dizzy spells, followed with stomach aches, and tiredness. They told me I caught a virus and sent me home. They took blood work, also did a heart test. I went to hospital, they gave me Zofran for the nausea. Two weeks prior to this I had been extremely tired, like I could close my eyes and be asleep. I woke up spinning terribly, and had nausea, diarrhea, and hot/cold chills. I went to work fine, went to bed that night and vertigo hit me about 12 am. It is only a couple of minutes of bad head spins you have to put up with.
If you have BPPV then you must try this at home yourself. I have even been for surfing lessons and been tumbled around in the waves with no re occurrence. That was about 4 weeks back and I have not had the slightest hint of any head spins since. It worked first time! My vertigo was gone. I did it before I went to work in the morning so I could stay upright for as long as possible that day before lying down again.
I did exactly as the instructions said, the whole process taking about 2 minutes. After having head spins every time I lay down or looked up for about 4 weeks, I decided to give the Epley maneuver a go myself. I researched further and read about self-performing the Epley maneuver. After doing some research and figuring out that I didn't have a brain tumor, I realized that I most likely had a case of BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). I had done this hundreds of times before. I recall during the day of the first head spinning episode, I had been at the beach and had been diving off a pontoon into the ocean and doing a somersault as I entered the water. This continued every night as well as when I looked up at the ceiling at any time. The next night I had the same thing happen but more violently. One Sunday night as I was getting into bed, I got a major case of the head spins when I lay back with my head to the left.