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What would cause severe vertigo?

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Dr. Stevan Cordas answered

Specializes in Internal Medicine

Severe vertigo: There are two types. Peripheral vertigo is more common and often by a small stone stuck in your semicirular canals of the inner ear. See an audiologist of ENT doctor.

Answered 6/10/2014

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