ratinmybed

My condolences on the positional vertigo! I had it as a complication from getting vestibular neuritis, it's really awful. The nausea it gave me was the worst, I hope you don't get it as bad.

Here's a link if anyone wants to know more about "benign paroxysmal positional vertigo": http://www.dizziness-and-balance.com/disorders/bppv/bppv.html

Not sure if my advice will help at all, but I finally got rid of my vertigo after trying the Semont maneuver for weeks until it worked. It's a sequence of somewhat brisk head positionings to get the debris that was causing the vertigo into an inner ear canal where it wouldn't do any harm. Have you tried that yet, OP? Doing the movements is quite difficult because the positioning causes vertigo as well, and you have to be somewhat careful not to injure your neck muscles. I had weak neck muscles from a prior car accident involving whiplash, and afterwards had neck pain for months.

I cannot even imagine what trauma an accident of such magnitude must've been to go through, both physically and mentally.

A few years ago I was in a smallish car collision, on the autobahn, I was in the backseat and my father, who was driving, had to make a complete stop to avoid hitting the car that was stopped in front of us (sudden traffic jam). The car behind us didn't pay enough attention or didn't brake fast enough and crashed into us just as I was leaning over to look what the hold-up was.

I got whiplash and that small thing still plagues me to this day (weak neck, prone to getting headaches when stress is put on my neck/back, possibly got BPPV in connection with it), furthermore I was quite scared of being on the autobahn and at high speeds after that, especially when it wasn't me driving.

My story is completely negligible compared to yours and others in this post, but I still empathize and hope things will get better for all those that had it worse than me.