Vertigo help please?!?

Hello, my father seems to have a severe case of vertigo. He gets dizzy, feels nauseous. He also feels like he's going to faint. It's been happening a lot lately and all the doctor's did was give him medicine for it. Has anyone her ever had vertigo? Will vertigo stay for awhile? If you have, could you please tell me ways to prevent it and deal with it. I'm also wondering if the docter diagnosed him wrong. Any information will help!

there are many causes of vertigo and treatment, duration depends on the cause :) consult a neurologist just to make sure and if other symptoms are present like tinnitus or u think its ear/vestibular related go to an ENT

anyway. i hope this can help

Medications
Commonly prescribed medications include the following:



Meclizine hydrochloride (Antivert)


Diphenhydramine (Benadryl)


Scopolamine transdermal patch


Promethazine hydrochloride (Phenergan)


Diazepam (Valium)
Take these medications only as directed by and under the supervision of your doctor.

Medical Treatment
The choice of treatment will depend on the diagnosis.

Vertigo can be treated with medicine you take by mouth, through medicine placed on the skin (as a patch), or drugs given through an IV.


Specific types of vertigo may require additional treatment and referral:


Bacterial infection of the middle ear requires antibiotics.


For Meniere disease, in addition to symptomatic treatment, people might be placed on a low salt diet and may require medication used to increase urine output.


A hole in the inner ear causing recurrent infection may require referral to an ear, nose, and throat (ENT) specialist for surgery.


In addition to the drugs used for benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, several physical maneuvers can be used to treat the condition.


Vestibular rehabilitation exercises consist of having you sit on the edge of a table and lie down to one side until the vertigo resolves followed by sitting up and lying down on the other side, again until the vertigo ceases. This is repeated until the vertigo is no longer inducible.


Particle repositioning maneuver is a treatment based on the idea that the condition is caused by small stones in the inner ear. Your head is repositioned to move the stones to their normal position. This maneuver should be repeated until the abnormal eye movements are no longer visible.

I was diagnosed with benine positional vertigo.....he needs to go to an ENT and they will manipulate his head (therapy) and it will help, depending on which type of vertigo he has.

This is going to sound really weird but have him get his ears cleaned out. I suffered from vertigo a few years ago and ended up in the emergency room, they used a special solution, warm water and sprayer, I had wax fall out of each ear the size of peanut! It worked and I have never had a problem since.