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What Causes Vertigo And Vomiting After Head Injury?
I went to see a friends band play and some heavy set guy decided to start a mosh and threw himself accross the venue, landing on me, causing me to hit my head against the floor. Immediately after I had a migrane, so I took advil and went to bed a few hours later. When I woke up I have severe vertigo and I kept vomitting. I didn't eat much all day, I tried to have lunch but it came right back up. Hours later I made a sandwich and it stayed down because I ate very slowly. I forced myself to stay awake till 12am, went to sleep. When I woke up today I had the same symptoms, vertigo and vomitting. I'm worried about when this will go away and what it could mean.
Tue, 30 Aug 2016
Hi there,
I am Dr. Deepak, I work in Emergency Department, where I see many patients with injury to their head. As you mentioned you had injured your head as someone landed on you and you hit the floor. Since then you are having headache, severe vertigo and vomiting. You are not able to eat properly.
Your feeling of vertigo and vomiting is more, when you get up from the bed and when you turn your head to one side suddenly. Mostly it look like ear problem. Are you having any cough, cold or running nose? It can lead to ear block and cause similar problem. If not do you any problem with ear, like reduced hearing, ringing sound in any of the ear?
There are few small stones on both side of our ear, which help us balance. There is possibility that you might have displaced one of these stone from its place when your head hit the floor.
In my opinion you can
1. You can wait and watch if it comes down.
2. You can try few exercises like Epley maneuver, and similar one which you can find the internet for the treatment of vertigo.
3. If it still persists then you can show it to an ENT specialist. Who can examine you and let you know what might be the problem.
Thank you
Hope your concern was dealt with and hope you have a speedy recovery
I am Dr. Deepak, I work in Emergency Department, where I see many patients with injury to their head. As you mentioned you had injured your head as someone landed on you and you hit the floor. Since then you are having headache, severe vertigo and vomiting. You are not able to eat properly.
Your feeling of vertigo and vomiting is more, when you get up from the bed and when you turn your head to one side suddenly. Mostly it look like ear problem. Are you having any cough, cold or running nose? It can lead to ear block and cause similar problem. If not do you any problem with ear, like reduced hearing, ringing sound in any of the ear?
There are few small stones on both side of our ear, which help us balance. There is possibility that you might have displaced one of these stone from its place when your head hit the floor.
In my opinion you can
1. You can wait and watch if it comes down.
2. You can try few exercises like Epley maneuver, and similar one which you can find the internet for the treatment of vertigo.
3. If it still persists then you can show it to an ENT specialist. Who can examine you and let you know what might be the problem.
Thank you
Hope your concern was dealt with and hope you have a speedy recovery
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