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Related, something happened with my ear supposedly as well, and I started experiencing dizzyness when turning around in the bed, and when raising myself from a

Related, something happened with my ear supposedly as well, and I started experiencing dizzyness when turning around in the bed, and when raising myself from a lying position, even when slowly doing so. Turns out there are "Inner Ear Crystals" that are floating around and that needs to be in the right place for you to not become dizzy. At first it sounded like new age stuff, but the medical doctor pointed out I probably had BPPV, and I started doing some exercises with body movements that are supposed to "align the crystals". It still sounds like bullshit to me for some reason, but the exercises worked so I guess there is some truth in people needing to align the crystals in them, sometimes.

I_Am_Nous 3y ago
My wife had a similar diagnosis. Random dizziness, and the exercises helped resolve it for her as well. "Ear crystals" was certainly a fun thing to hear the first time!
penteract 3y ago
"Adventures in Human Being" by Gavin Francis has an interesting description of the development of the Epley maneuver, which wasn't invented until ~1980. It took some time to be accepted due to a slightly different prevailing theory for the cause of BPPV and "the fact that Epley had been holding vibrators to patients' heads allowed them to label him a crank".
soco 3y ago
It sounds indeed like b$ if you phrase it like "aligning crystal vibrations". But he meant the otoliths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otolith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otolith
- capableweb 3y ago
  But in common parlance, people seem to refer to them as crystals (although I've never heard the word "vibrations" around it, that's definitely new age stuff). That Wikipedia article even uses the word "crystal" as well: > Otoliths (also called statoliths) are agglutinated crystals or crystals precipitated around a nucleus, with well defined morphology and together all may be termed endolymphatic infillings

I_Am_Nous 3y ago

My wife had a similar diagnosis. Random dizziness, and the exercises helped resolve it for her as well. "Ear crystals" was certainly a fun thing to hear the first time!

penteract 3y ago

"Adventures in Human Being" by Gavin Francis has an interesting description of the development of the Epley maneuver, which wasn't invented until ~1980. It took some time to be accepted due to a slightly different prevailing theory for the cause of BPPV and "the fact that Epley had been holding vibrators to patients' heads allowed them to label him a crank".

soco 3y ago

It sounds indeed like b$ if you phrase it like "aligning crystal vibrations". But he meant the otoliths: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otolith https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otolith

capableweb 3y ago
But in common parlance, people seem to refer to them as crystals (although I've never heard the word "vibrations" around it, that's definitely new age stuff). That Wikipedia article even uses the word "crystal" as well: > Otoliths (also called statoliths) are agglutinated crystals or crystals precipitated around a nucleus, with well defined morphology and together all may be termed endolymphatic infillings