There are no side effects from the prescription medication “Serc”. You won’t get that groggy tired drugged feeling at all. Once you start taking Serc and it’s in your system, hopefully like myself the full blown episodes won’t come back. I was just telling my husband about what it’s like to suffer from this. I have been with him for 3 years and I have never had an episode of vertigo since having met him, so he didn’t even know what it was. I told him to image himself being so drunk that the room was spinning, but a hundred times worse.

I had a minor chuckle when I read “the room wasn’t really spinning that much.”

Only someone with vertigo would understand the maddening irony of “that much.” I rate days on a scale one end of which means I don’t experience any vertigo until I am completely out of bed and on the other end I can’t leave my bed because it’s moving too much.

You’d be surprised at what doctors can do. I went in sometimes unable to hold myself up and other times moving almost normal. But I also understand the frustration of hoping they can find a cure for something and facing another pair of shrugging shoulders.