Vestibular Migraine, Do You Think You have Them!!!

Have you ever been on a boat, and when you get off you feel like you are still moving? How about riding an escalator? When you get off, you are a little dizzy.

The vertigo might just be worst than the headache itself.

Try not to worry if you get dizzy with vestibular migraine.

You have to be diagnosed with vestibular migraines to be sure you are having them. Migraines will make you dizzy. My wife doesn't have good balance, falls sometimes, but she has atypical migraines, or common migraines.

Some symptoms of vestibular can be weakness in the arms, and legs, fainting, hearing loss, and nausea.

Researchers thought at one time that vestibular was due to a lack of circulation in the back of the brain. But now they think it's an abnormal neurological function.

Although there is no medicine to specifically treat this, your Doctor can give you medicines for your vertigo, and also for your headache separately. Did you know that Janet Jackson also suffers from vestibular migraine?

She had to cancel several concert tours, but was then given a clean bill of health after she was diagnosed with vestibular migraine.

A diagnosis of vestibular migraine is made if you respond to the medicine indomethacin.

(This is also the way they diagnose hemicrania continua. If you respond to Indomethacin you can also be suffering with this type of migraine, if you meet the criteria).

There is a sudden onset of vertigo lasting from a few minutes to more than twenty four hours with vestibular migraines. This migraine may be exactly like vestibular (inner ear), meniere's disease.

There is no "scientific" proof that a migraine can cause inner ear symptoms.

But a good many Doctors have embraced the idea that inter ear symptoms such as vertigo, dizziness, hearing loss, and tinnitus, are actually a migraine, but not always with a headache "the pain". Doctors don't always know what to call this type of migraine headache

The thing about this type of migraine is that one Doctor may call your symptoms a vestibular, and another may call it by a totally different name.

He may tell you that you have had a basilar migraine.

If you have vestibular migraine, don't put off receiving treatment.

The medicines to treat this are, (Triptans, Anti-inflammatories, Calcium-blockers, Antidepressants, and Anticonvulsants).

And one last reason to control this. If you have hearing loss due to this type of migraine, there is no treatment to restore it.

All the best. More info on Vestibular Migraine There are many different types of complicated migraines one can have. Our last page is on basilar migraines, and our next page covers different migraine types.

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