If you’ve ever stood up too quickly, taken a long boat ride, or enjoyed a roller coaster, chances are you’ve experienced dizziness.
Dizziness is characterized as feeling unstable, lightheaded, weak, or feeling that you or your surroundings are spinning. This sensation usually only lasts a few seconds and then disappears allowing you to continue your day uninterrupted.
Imagine if this feeling didn’t go away within a few seconds. What if the relief didn’t come until several minutes or even hours later?
Sufferers from a type of dizziness known as vertigo experience this sensation on a regular basis. Some suffer more often than others.
There are two types of vertigo, subjective and objective.
Subjective vertigo gives you the feeling that you are moving. Objective vertigo gives you the sensation that it’s not you that is moving, but your surroundings that are moving. This may cause you to tilt or sway, to have visual problems, and can cause difficulty in speaking and walking.
Other symptoms include but are not limited to nausea, vomiting, sweating, involuntary eye movements, hearing loss, and ringing in the ears. These symptoms can last anywhere from minutes to hours and can sometimes be treated with medication or certain physical maneuvers.
True vertigo originates in the brain or inner ear and is often but not always associated with hearing loss.
A common form of vertigo is called ‘benign paroxysmal positional vertigo’ (BPPV). BPPV is due to small particles in the fluid in the semicircular canals in the inner ear.
This debris is dislodged and after head movement has stopped the debris continues moving, allowing sensors in the inner ear to think there is still movement when there is none.
BPPV can be triggered by certain head movements or something as slight as rolling over in bed. Symptoms of this type of vertigo usually last several seconds before subsiding. BPPV can be treated and is usually not too serious.
Meniere’s disease is another form of vertigo in which sufferers experience a sudden onset of symptoms that include hearing loss and ringing in the ears. Treatment includes medications to reduce the spinning sensation and anxiety as well as a diet restricted in sodium.
Vertigo can also be caused by an acoustic neuroma, a tumor on the balance and hearing nerves near the inner ear. This is a more serious diagnosis but if caught early can be surgically removed.
In addition to vertigo, symptoms associated with this type of tumor can include one sided hearing loss and ringing in the ears. Vertigo can also be a result of head trauma, multiple sclerosis, migraines, and bacterial or viral infections.
Next time you’re experiencing a bout of dizziness, remember there are people who live with this everyday. They’re suffering multiple times throughout the day in some cases, often for several minutes to hours at a time.
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