Your clinician may prescribe medications to reduce severe symptoms during the first few days of illness. You should not take medications for more than three days since they may interfere with your brain’s ability to compensate for your vertigo. Longer medication use may also lead to repeat symptoms.

Medications clinicians use for vestibular neuronitis include:

• Antiemetics to ease nausea and vomiting
• Antihistamines to decrease vertigo
• Benzodiazepines to reduce dizziness
• Steroids to lessen inflammation

Balance therapy is a specialized exercise program to help you improve your balance and cope with vertigo and dizziness. A physical therapist teaches you exercises, such as:

• Balance retraining to help you adapt to imbalance and feel steadier
• Habituation exercises, which teach your brain to ignore dizziness by exposing you to motions that typically cause you to feel dizzy
• Posture training to practice standing and sitting
• Stretching exercises to increase your flexibility
• Vision stability exercises to help you control your eye movements
• Walking exercises to practice maintaining your balance