It’s surprising, when you tell people some little problem you have, how many of them have it too. People I’ve known a long time say that they have vertigo also. Mine started up when I was pregnant with Arwen. It was incapacitating, but slowly wore off. Well it came back two weeks ago. It only worries me when I think about it or when I Google it. It’s pretty harmless. And lying on my left side makes it completely go away.
I’ve actually come to enjoy it, a little spin to mix up my day. Who needs drugs? Just catch a little viral vertigo, labrynthitus. It’s free! When I get up too fast and the room spins on a tilted axis, I just tell myself to keep walking, the floor is not trying to flip upside down.
I make light, but the part of my mind that always lands on cancer just wants it to go away and let me go back to an unwavering plane.
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I have also experienced this once in my life, and it was the strangest sensation I have ever had. I awoke in the middle of the night, sat up on the bed, stood, and proceeded to walk toward the bathroom. Finding myself lying on the floor instead was rather puzzling. I tried again. Same result. Even though I thought I was standing perfectly straight, I found myself falling against the walls. I ended up crawling to the bathroom and then back to bed, thinking that perhaps I'd just risen too quickly and all would be well in the morning.
NOT the case. Ultimately, a viral infection of the inner ear was found to be the culprit. A round of motion-sickness medication kept me functional until my body rid itself of the virus, but what a surreal few days that was. I NEVER want to experience it again. I am sorry that you've had to deal with it repeatedly.