Dizziness
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Dizziness Overview
Dizziness is a common description for many different feelings. The feeling of dizziness may be very familiar to you, yet difficult to describe.
Vertigo is a medical term to describe the feeling of spinning, whirling, or motion either of yourself or your surroundings. This is the same feeling you might have after getting off a merry-go-round or spinning in place. Several diseases of the balance organs of the inner ear can cause vertigo, or it may be a symptom of a tumor or stroke.
- Dizziness may be just mildly annoying or caused by something possibly life threatening.
- When you might feel dizziness
- Fainting or near fainting such as "at the sight of blood" or with emotional upset
- Fainting or near fainting from standing up too quickly or standing still too long
- Weakness during a flu, cold, or other illness
- Seasickness or motion sickness
- Queasiness, nausea, or vomiting
- Confused thinking
- Fatigue, tiredness, or daytime sleepiness
- Clumsy hands or stumbling walking
- Fainting or near fainting such as "at the sight of blood" or with emotional upset
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