3 years of hell

[IsraelMagdaleno]

In 2013 I had the flu, 2 weeks after I started feeling better I was at work walking towards my truck. I liked over my shoulder to my left and when I turned back to look forward everything started spinning. I called 911 and was taken to a near by hospital. After blood work and a CT scan I was sent home told it was BPPV. I underwent several months of therapy which had 0 effect on my dizziness. It's been 3 years now, with constant dizziness, constant head pressure, constant anxiety attacks (at least 2 a day). It has completely impacted my life. I have 3 kids and a wife and I can't go anywhere or do anything because simply walking causes me to be off balance, running makes it even worse, driving is almost impossible. I've seen ENTs, I've had blood work done countless times, I've been to the ER at least 6-7 times a year, I've had MRIs and no one can tell me what it is causing this or what I can do to stop it. I've lost several jobs, been denied a promotion at my current job. Please help me! I can't live like this anymore!

[Paxiled]

Never heard of it, looked on the Mayo Clinic website.  It says this is usually a minor condition that can be treated usually in a doctor's office by tilting the head in several positions.  In the rare cases where this and PT don't work, there's a surgery for it that's 90% effective.  But from what I read, the dizziness from that condition isn't constant, and you say yours is.  Obviously, people can get rare severe problems where most don't -- it happened to me -- and when that happens, often most docs don't have a clue what to do.  Sometimes, if you can travel, places like Mayo Clinic and Johns Hopkins and other places will have someone or a team who specialize in your problem and might find an answer where your local docs can't or won't.  In the meantime, have you ever tried the temporary things such as ginger, dramamine, or antivert?  

[IsraelMagdaleno]

By the way I'm a 27 year old male, I've gained about 60 pounds since this started happening to me simply because any physical activity worsens my symptoms. Health history: I had a benign tumor removed from near my spine when I was 12, I also fractured T11 and T12 in my spine in 2008 when I was 19. Apart from that I had always been healthy.