Symptom check please

Hi Latestart. I am really sorry but I feel compelled to correct you, because of my background, as your post can lead to misinformation. Firstly dizziness and labyrinthitis are not the same as dizziness has many causes including a condition called BPPV (loose crystals in the inner ear canals). It is not correct to say that no one in the UK has heard of it!! It is one of the commonest cause of dizziness diagnosed in the dizzy clinics and every ENT doctor and most GPs and audiologists should be able to diagnose it and treat it with head manipulation manoeuvres. Please feel free to google it or ask any question regarding it. Best wishes. X

Thank you  Hopeful  perhaps I wasn't clear. And maybe I'm out of date - my poor husband had it over 15 years ago. It was horrible, and lasted weeks - he could only walk in a straight line: when we crossed the road I had to look both ways for him otherwise if he turned his head he fell over - he was then a very fit tennis player.

I didn't mean to say all dizziness is caused by labyrinthitis - I've never had the latter but have often had dizziness. Nor that medics here hadn't heard of labyrinthitis.

But it was a French friend who told me that manipulation is their first line of treatment for labyrinthitis and is very commonly used there.

That was a couple of days after A&E said it was gastric (he threw up on the floor while the nurse was telling him to lie down then watched as he tried, and I finished, cleaning it up). They discharged him after several hours with tablets for his stomach after checking his heart. And at first we were just relieved it wasn't the heart attack he feared.

Then luckily I realised what it was from a friend's description of something she'd told me about a year before. I  got him to the GP that afternoon and she confirmed it was labyrinthitis  (nowadays I doubt that would be so rapid). If I remember correctly there was no treatment offered.

After I heard about manipulation I looked it up and tried it on my husband (with limited success - he didn't like how it felt). If I'd known an audiologist could help I'd have got him there pdq. 

I'm glad manipulation is more common here now. 

All the best,

Latestart