Vertigo

Last night, I got another spinning session. I woke up around 3-ish and almost immediately after I opened my eyes, I felt the entire world spinning. It was so intense I had to close my eyes and put my hand on the wall to steady myself (not that it would have helped). Thankfully when I opened my eyes a few seconds later the spinning had stopped. I got up to pee and went back to bed, nervous that the spinning would come back. Luckily it didn't. However, when I tried to sleep on my left, the spinning started again, although nowhere near as intense or painful. After that I had to sleep on the right or at least facing the ceiling.

When I woke up, I felt slightly better but the spinning on the left hadn't stopped. Got up to take a shower and lay down in bed to try again. The spinning had stopped completely. Thank goodness.

I have to admit I was quite scared last night when the spinning started again. Why was this happening again? And why wasn't I recovering? Maybe there is some sort of deeper problem than just positional vertigo? I went to the uni doctor to see if anything could be done. He was very reassuring and told me recovery can take a few weeks and it's not unusual to suffer relapses. He said I'm probably taking a longer time to recover because I never had a chance to take an extended rest and instead had to keep going back to work and looking at the computer. It's probably a good thing I'm going on my holiday next week because that would afford me a chance to really rest properly. And I have to say I have never appreciated being physically healthy as much as now.