7 Questions You Need to Answer If You Get Dizzy
Everyone will experience dizziness in their lifetime but how do you know when it is serious or not? The fact that someone can lose their balance and get blurred vision randomly is a sign there’s something not quite right...
Many people can relate to feeling dizzy after getting up too quickly. This is the most common form and it has to do with the brain/body’s slow reaction time for adapting blood flow and pressure. This is only a serious issue if it happens all the time but usually it’s just cause for laughing at your friend...
On the other hand, some individuals, maybe you, have to live their life feeling this way a lot of the time and you can imagine how difficult that would be.
I always ask my patients when they come in office, “What is your dizziness preventing you from doing?” I get all kinds of answers...
Most of my patients, in some form or other, see that this condition compromises the way in which they interact and participate in the world around them, whether that be with their kids, job, hobbies, goals…
Now, there are many causes of dizziness and this is not the time to discuss them in their entirety. The purpose of this article is to clearly identify when you need to take action.
The good news is that the majority of these cases can be helped dramatically with easy and non-invasive treatments.
So, let’s dive into some easy questions to help you figure out if your dizziness can be helped and if you can find freedom...
#1 : Is it sudden?
For many people this is the common experience. They might be working out, or doing chores around the house, maybe playing with their kids or grandkids and out of nowhere they get dizzy. For these people it’s very important to figure out exactly what they were doing down to the precise location and position of their body.
This is an indicator used to decipher which condition they could be dealing with and it most often is some form of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)- the most common form of vertigo that people suffer with. Some people with seasonal allergies also experience this and often times find relief with antihistamines.