Still waiting for labs to come back but have a weird situation with vertigo and elevators. This only happens at work because work is the only place I run around and am on elevators all day. I will get on an elevator to my floor, get off, get to where I am going which is usually some place where I have to stand still in one place for a while. Vertigo and imbalance comes over me like crazy and this is the only scenario I can see this happens. Doesn't happen on elevator, not when I am walking to my destination, but when I get there an stop and stand for a while. Crazy?
Posted by annier1071 (Member # 28977) on :
I went through this for 30 years..menieres disease. It take a few seconds when you get off for the ear pressure change to hit. I can't stand up straight at all.
Now I have lyme on top of it enhancing the vertigo so I am not officially out of work for the last 9 months...See an ENT for the ear issue and dont let it get as bad as mine.
Posted by lymeinhell (Member # 4622) on :
Yes, I had this. I have menieres too. My ears have been ringing for 17 yrs now. Make yourself breathe, stay calm and focused, so it doesn't proceed to blow into a panic attack. Recognize it for what it is.
Posted by Nicole2011 (Member # 30672) on :
I go thru the same thing. I though it was only me
Posted by seekhelp (Member # 15067) on :
You are the first person that described EXACTLY what has happened to me for 14 years! Everyone thinks I'm nuts. I get off the elevator and it feels like the ground shakes for a second and I'm extremely unsteady on my feet.
it was my first symptom when I fell ill in 1997. ENTs have not found anything.
I used to describe it as it felt like a tiny earthquake that goes away.
Posted by koo (Member # 30462) on :
clarification.....by labs I mean Igenex labs. The apres elevator vertigo coincided along with every other weird symptom 9/09. When I feel "well", this doesn't happen. In fact, I can go weeks without it happening. When I get off an elevator and continue to walk, I don't notice anything. It is only with standing still. I was worrying that perhaps it was cardiac in nature but perhaps not.
Posted by one4islands (Member # 28187) on :
I suffer from this as well.
Depending on the elevator speed it can be worse.
If I get on an elevator that travels rather quickly, I am more unsteady.
I also have ringing in my ears constantly.
Another interesting note, when I am in bed with my ceiling fan on, the lights off and tv on, it can bring on the vertigo.
Posted by Jennifer70 (Member # 30280) on :
I experience this too....for years now. Now any movement does it to me....esp if Im on a boat, the room will sway for a week. Not sure what it's from exactly, i always figured it was an inner ear thing.
Posted by seibertneurolyme (Member # 6416) on :
Hubby had this really bad when he first got sick. He did not have any inner ear symptoms. He just felt weak and would have increased tremors. He could also feel vibrations thru his feet when people would walk by him (especially if the floors were wood).
Both elevators and escalators would cause this problem. And riding in a car was really an ordeal. He would have dry heaves and seizure-like spells.
I think it was some sort of nerve irritation. He had no numbness or tingling but it was like his nerves were oversensitive to normal things.
Bea Seibert
Posted by laura j (Member # 14257) on :
Happens to me too
Posted by JOLA (Member # 23498) on :
Me too. Take the stairs
Posted by cleo (Member # 6646) on :
Same here. I wouldn't have thought of it if you didn't mention it. When I feel better it doesn't happen. I have to assume it will go away with all the other symptoms when I recover.