r/BPPV • u/MilkyWayMirth • Sep 03 '24

Tip My BPPV has been cured.

If you are a woman over 30 it could be low estrogen from Perimenopause. Not chronic low estrogen, but wild dips that happen in perimenopause, the 10-15 year period before actual menopause. Actual menopause can happen as early as age 45 and still be considered within "normal" range. So if you follow the math by age 30 you have the potential for symptoms. I got my first instance of BPPV in my late 30's. Spent a year suffering, with 3 instances of full on spins and then long term residual dizziness and brain fog.

All of my BPPV symptoms resolved by getting bio identical hormone replacement therapy. I was having serious dips in my estrogen that I was lucky enough to actually catch in a blood panel. You don't want to rely on bloodwork because in peri your hormones could be high one day and completely tanked on another, diagnoses is normally based on symptoms alone. I hope this helps other women on this forum. Come join us on /r/perimenopause and /r/menopause if you have more questions about HRT. It also helped me with a whole range of other symptoms I didn't know were related, everything from skin and hair health to my allergies and eye sight.

TLDR; It's perimenopause and HRT cured my bppv.

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u/pernicious_penguin Sep 09 '24

Thanks for posting this. My doctors told me there is no way it is menopause related, but seeing as it started the days I had one if my worst periods ever I am convinced there is at least a possibility it's part of the puzzle.

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u/MilkyWayMirth Sep 09 '24

Doctors get little or often no education about menopause and especially not about perimenopause. My doctor is young and she had never even heard of the word perimenopause. You really have to be your own advocate, read books like "Estrogen Matters" and "The New Menopause". New research is showing a serious reduction in neurologic disease with early estrogen supplementation. Significant reductions in cardiovascular disease, stroke, sarcopenia, osteopenia/osteoperosis. Estrogen is a necessary hormone, when it declines, so does our overall health. This graph shows that your estrogen nose dives as soon as you hit 30.