Vertigo is still common with airline pilots as well. I am low time with only a few thousand hours but the other day when flying a departure procedure that requires varying step climbs and turns and what not and being in IMC from rotation on I certainly felt a bit of vertigo as I was underway.

As others have mentioned it is not that you get vertigo it is what you do with it that matters. I knew that I felt like I was in a shallow left bank but everything on my instruments, the other pilots instruments and the back up instruments told me otherwise so I trusted them. After a few moments of reassuring yourself that all is normal the vertigo seems to fade away.

Again I am lowtime so maybe after approaching ten thousand hours it no longer comes but I would have reason to believe that it comes back every so often to let you know you are human.

As others have said, I think it is a great idea to find a local pilot with experience (not a freshly minted instrument pilot of CFII) and go up and log some actual with them. I do this with a local guy quite a bit out here and it has been a great help for him. Nice easy days are best with a 500 OVC or so with tops around a few thousand in stable air.