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Rio Rancho, NM

What is the difference between the vertigo due to middle ear and the vertigo due to MS?

June 11, 2020
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A MyMSTeam Member

My understanding is that inner ear vertigo is rooted in a problem with the inner ear vs. MS vertigo which is caused by lesions in a certain part of the brain. The root cause is different. I'm not sure if they feel different or not.

June 22, 2020
A MyMSTeam Member

Interesting enough, I had a bought of MS vertigo 11 years before I was diagnosed with MS. Yes it was horrible and yes it lasted a long time. I was eventually treated by an ENT with special therapy and it lasted until last year. The doctors found a small tumor on the nerves leading to the inner ear. So far it's being watched. My new vertigo episodes are short (about a week) so I guess we shall see. I was only diagnosed with MS in February of 2020.

June 16, 2020
A MyMSTeam Member

Sorry, my first neurologist told me MS was 6 to 12 weeks of weirdness. And after 24 years, I've found him to be pretty correct.

June 11, 2020
A MyMSTeam Member

I've had Vertigo. The wierd thing for me was in only my right eye. If I covered my right eye, things stopped spinning. Oh! And being MS, it lasted a couple of months. That's the thing that makes it MS is how LONG a symptom lasts. A few hours or a few days, nope. Weeks or longer, yep! My first neurologist

June 11, 2020
A MyMSTeam Member

Are you sure you've had vertigo? For me vertigo caused by ms is room is spinning around me. Once I thought my chair was tumbling over. It was so bad I feel out of my chair. Vertigo is horrible. When it gets bad you cannot function. You get so dizzy you can't stand and usually you get very nauseous.

June 11, 2020

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