Your dizziness - can you describe it with other words?Is your dizziness a sensation in your head or your legs? Dizzy, giddy, lightheaded or unstable? Light headed feelings can come from disturbance of balance due to inner ear, neck joint or blood pressure problems, just for a start. The feeling may be vertigo, when one feels movement which isn't happening. This can be rotating, veering or tipping over. It may be a fainty feeling, as if everything is becoming distant and quieter and darker. One feels weak and may come out in a cold sweat. Very often it is just giddy feeling, and then the circumstances may help in sorting out the cause. The rest of the story - known pre-existing conditionsDo you have any illness or take any medications?Low blood pressure or glucose from hypertension or diabetes treatment, are causes. Abnormal tension in neck muscles from jaw or cervical spine problems, is another. Inner ear malfunction with worsening deafness and ringing ears, may be due to Meniere's syndrome, a cause of vertigo attacks. The inner ear may be affected suddenly and severely, in acute labyrinthitis, following a recent head cold. Progesterone hormone lowers blood pressure early in pregnancy. Fainting may result now. At the end of pregnancy, laying flat on one's back may bring on the "supine hypotensive syndrome" as the inferior vena cava can then be blocked by the weight of the baby on it. Past allergies or asthma may alert one to the possibility of a desperately urgent and life threatening
anaphylactic reaction. More about your present situationNausea and dizzy feelings are likely to be present together, whatever the cause.Other symptoms can be more helpful. Blocked or runny nose? Sinus blockage can cause very odd feelings in one's head. Headache or earache? Sinuses again, or cervical spine joints stiff and sore, jaw joint strain, all possible. Butterflies in your stomach, difficulty thinking clearly, agitated, unsteady when you stand up? Adrenal exhaustion with functional hypoglycaemia is possible. Giddy rolling over in bed or turning to look sideways? Benign positional vertigo or neck joints stiff and sore, most likely. From dizziness page back to home page |
