DizzyFixVertigo Relief Trainer for BPPV (Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo) - Inner Ear Balance Device for Particle Repositioning Maneuver

UPDATE TO REVIEW: This product was overpriced, but I was desperate to get rid of my vertigo. I tried it out yesterday and I felt ok--no better no worse. I thought it would take time. I woke up today and I am miserable. My vertigo was just bothersome when laying down or getting up. After using this my vertigo has become constant. It is bothering me just to sit still. Any head movement makes it worse. I tried a 2nd treatment and no change in vertigo. My ears popped and my neck is cracking, but the dizziness is now constant and gets worse with any movement. So obviously I was not thrilled at first, BUT I tried it a few times and I have not had any vertigo in 48 hours. I wanted to give a fair review. I think be prepared that things could be worse before getting better. And kept 4 stars because I still think the price should be lower.

It is easy to use, but unfortunately it did not work for me.

I would first watch some YouTube videos on the "Epley Maneuver", because this little plastic gimmicky contraption is designed to mirror that which is said to help benefit certain types of Vertigo. Once you've familiarized yourself with the Epley Maneuver, then read the instruction booklet for this thing, then go ahead and try it. Watching the videos first helps you understand the nature of what the intention of this is and how it's connected to your inner ear. This is merely a plastic piece with a bead that runs from one side to another. It's attached to a hat you wear.Each day for the first week of using this, I was working on the right ear and my symptoms weren't improving much. There was a slight difference, but nothing major. It instructs one to wait a full week before using the other ear. It was when I used the left ear a week later the improvements to the six week long daily Vertigo I was experiencing started to lighten up. The next day of using this for the left ear the Vertigo symptoms actually finally went away. So apparently it must've been the left ear that the Vertigo was an issue for me. It was difficult for me to detect at first until I used this. One could have Vertigo in both ears, or the right or left.I continued to use this for days after but the Vertigo symptoms were gone so I stopped using it. A week and a half past and I was Vertigo symptom free, then the Vertigo started to creep back up again. It's like come-on. Guess I have to live with this. Picked up this contraption again and it helped ease the symptoms until it lightened and went away. It's been weeks now as of this review and I haven't had any Vertigo symptoms, so this did help greatly.The cons for this thing is that it's way overpriced. This thing works yes, but it shouldn't be more than $20 because the maneuvers can be done watching YouTube videos. The one plus this thing does that watching YouTube videos doesn't is that it helps you position your head properly so that the ball moves from one side to the other. They shouldn't charge so much for this though. There are people with Vertigo where this contraption is way too much money. But yes this hat thing definitely helped me greatly.

When these terrible symptoms hit me I quickly learned about Posterior BPPV and the Epley maneuver that is designed to solve it but had no success in performing it. Figured this meant that I either did not have Posterior BPPV or that I was performing the Epley incorrectly. It appears in youtube to be very clear and simple but I thought that perhaps there was a tighter tolerance for error then one might think and that perhaps I was not holding the head angles precisely enough.So enter this tool, which is based on the Epley. I asked several enthusiastic reviewers if and how this tool made an accurate Epley dance more certain. If the Dizzy Fix revealed any possible errors that could occur without using it. Though these reviewers were all recent and therefore likely still tuned in, I got nothing but silence, causing me to doubt them. Always depressing.Looking at the picture now. You have a tube coming out from the hat that bends down to meet a twisted U shaped tube. Only the latter liquid filled U tube is involved and there are 5 relevant points on it. Two ends colored blue and yellow, two bent areas halfway along colored red, and the middle where the empty tube from hat joins. A floating colored ball.One needs a bed, table, or stout object on floor because it is crucial to have your head hanging not only back but down so head is not in same plane as body.I recommend "Peter Johns" on YT for 2 vids, one on posterior and one on horizontal BPPV.The ball is moved to and started at the end that is your bad side.At first 45 degree head angle on bad side the ball goes from end to red zone roughly. At 45 degree Angle #2 on other side the ball moves to middle juncture. Lastly, on your side with head pointed at floor moves ball to second red zone, then you sit up and it travels to opposite end from where you started.Here it is. The Dizzy Fix is not going to help you be more exacting. Whether you hold your head at 35 or 45 or 65 degrees the ball comes to rest at roughly the same point around the red zone. I.e, I couldn't tell the difference. Heck, if you turned head a full 90 it is still the same. And at end when you strive to turn face toward floor while on your side the balls position is same regardless of how much you twist. If very precise angles within 5 degrees are critical (but I don't think they are) you're out of luck, or better to say, dependent on luck.So Dizzy Fix is absolutely no help imo. The Epley maneuver is clear and simple to perform with as much visual instruction out there as one could ever need. All you can do and the best you can do is follow the video exactly and if no results after several repeats try the horizontal canal BPPV movements, then maybe Epley again if still a problem because grains may have newly moved into the posterior canal.As luck would have it, or not, by the time I got this my symptoms were gone. In just one week, and I had it bad, falling over and such. Maybe cause I immediately quit coffee and started drinking distilled water but who knows? Possibly. Everyone's different. Scared straight.My research has led me to conclude that it is erroneous to say as many do that, though you solve this, once you have this it will definately keep coming back. There seems to be no evidence to support that assertion and some indication that under the right conditions the loose particles will be dissolved by the body, and you won't shake loose new ones. Heal yourself.Of minor import, it could be made a lot better for 140 bucks. #1--it doesn't clamp tight to the hat. I used my own hat and it held fine. Or they could spring for a little Velcro? Looseness obviously defeats the whole purpose. You can hold with your hand.#2- the cinching mechanism on cord is cheap and doesn't hold well so hat tilts. Once again, either improve it or use a better hat that is adjustable, fits deeper, and will form a snug fit on a variety of head sizes. You know, the way they used to make ball caps 20 years ago.Let me know if this article assists you.

This works like a movement timer. It works for my dad but it is way too expensive.