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I seem to be at the tail end of about a 3 week bout with (mostly) positional vertigo that came on with a bad cold that went just about everywhere in my upper body. All that is left of it now is some mild motion sensitivity when I'm tired. My GP thought the vertigo was probably due to the same virus getting into my inner ear (also found left eardrum "cloudy" and some redness on same side of throat), but my ENT wants me to have an audiogram and an ENG. Bearing in mind that he examined me 9 days after my GP did and found no evidence of inflammation on physical examination, ENT said that by history it sounds more like BPPV than a virus, but he wants to rule out Meniere's or anything intracranial, partly because I had some left-sided tinnitus with the vertigo when it was at its worst, and partly because the first vertigo episode seemed to be spontaneous. So I set up the test for next week but I'm sitting here wondering if the ENG makes sense at this point given that my symptoms seem to be resolving on their own, and also whether it is a good move from the standpoint of not jeopardizing my 3rd class medical, or might be more likely to open up Pandora's box by maybe documenting vestibular losses that are of no clinical significance.
