About B. Todd Troost, MD Expertise vertigo, benign positional vertigo, BPPV, and related ailments.
Experience
Past/Present clients More than 2000 patients with vertigo.
Chairman of Neurology Department for 18 years and examiner for American Board of Neurology for over 25 years. Extensive information is provided on my commericial free website at www.ivertigo.net
Question Do you know anyone who can assess whether my 6 year old has vertigo and/or atypical migraines? He describes: walking down stairs he can't tell if he feels like he's "falling or floating". In a crowded hallway with people walking all around he feels like he's "in a video game -- being controlled by a joy stick." If he lays face down on his bed he feels like he's "spinning on a post." Sometimes he says people look like they're "on paper" Playground activities and fast movements give him have a headache. If he watches a video game, his says his eyes "shake".
I have described all of this to a Pediatric Neurologist and and ENT and they tell me he's "normal". EEC and Cat Scan following "siezure-like episodes" show nothing.
Can you give me some suggestions of where to go with this?
Thank you!
Answer Gosh Margaret I would have thought the best bet would be a pediatric neurologist. Unfortunately both in vertigo and in migraine ALL the tests are usually normal.
Headaches and atypical migraine are fairly common in kids as opposed to vertigo and often there are ditrotions of body shapes, time warps and floating sensations. My guess is that it is migraine.
I guess I would say he needs either a trial of antimigraine medication or another evaluation by a different pediatric neurologist. I do not see child patients.
