When to Seek Medical Care

Dangerous, life-threatening illness may start only with dizziness. Call a doctor if any of the following occur:

• Any severe first time or new instances of dizziness
  
  
• Dizziness without a clear or certain cause
  
  
• Any change in an established pattern of dizziness
  
  
• Worsening or new symptoms
  
  
• Dizziness after taking newly prescribed medications, or recent changes in previous prescriptions

Call an ambulance unless you are certain of the cause of the dizziness, or unless the feeling goes away quickly.

• Dizziness may be the only symptom of a heart attack or stroke.
  
  
• If you have a possibility of heart disease, or known heart disease, an ambulance may save your life.
  
  
• All dizziness with loss of consciousness needs emergency evaluation.

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