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Occasional attacks of vertigo
Vertigo is the sensation of dizziness where the room is perceived to be spinning.
Dr. Keegan Duchicela reviewed this
16 year experience in family medicine
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A 33-year old male asked:
What is the definition or description of: Occasional attacks of vertigo?
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A 26-year old female asked:
Are occasional vertigo attacks, maybe once year or every few years, anything to worry about?
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A 27-year old female asked:
Female 26yo with occasional spinning vertigo attacks lasting <5 sec, usually with head movement both in and out of bed. Cause for worry?
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A 43-year old asked:
What should I do when I get vertigo attacks?
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A 39-year old asked:
Dizziness and vertigo attack when waking up. What should I do?
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A 39-year old female asked:
I've had vertigo for 10 years nonstop. Sometimes worse when getting out of bed. Can I get an attack while standing or sitting?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I took nytquill i got vertigo attack can i take meclizine?
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A 75-year old female asked:
Can a lot of stress cause someone to have a vertigo attack?
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A 27-year old female asked:
Do short (<5sec), sudden intense spinning vertigo attacks that resolve itself warrant further investigation? Happens once every few months
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A 53-year old female asked:
I had Mnire attack 3 wks ago. Still mild dizziness with certain movements and reading iPad. Normal? The attack was bad vertigo, but now this.
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A 24-year old female asked:
What could cause frequent attacks of true vertigo lasting for a few days. Vertigo always precede a migrainous type headache. Frequency increased. ?
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A 22-year old female asked:
If I lay on my back and lift my llegs up (i occasionally do this on a wall to stretch them) I now become dizzy and experience vertigo as well. Why?
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A 27-year old male asked:
Vertigo attack (Dizzyness) twice in two days. Its worse after waking up with pressure on top of the head but gets better during the day. Any help?
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A 19-year old male asked about a 53-year old female:
My mothers had some serious vertigo attacks at night leading to the incidental meningioma dioagnosis which was fully removed. Vertigo persistsdoe why?
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A 29-year old female asked:
Can sinus polyps cause occasional vertigo?
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A 44-year old asked:
Could a panic attack be caused by vertigo?
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A 26-year old female asked about a 27-year old male:
What is the difference between panic attack and vertigo?
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A 47-year old asked:
What to do about my panic attack may have just been vertigo?
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A 21-year old asked:
What is the likelihood that scuba diving (or flying) brings on a vertigo attack?
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A 21-year old asked:
Is there any correlation between barometric pressure and the onset of vertigo attacks?
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A 30-year old female asked:
I get vertigo attacks at least once a month who do I need to see for this also been taking allegra (fexofenadine) for 4months now to dry allegies?
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A 31-year old female asked:
I been having vertigo attacks can i take allergra still take meclizine if i have vertigo? how many hours should be the gap? before taking each one.
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A male asked:
I am on sibelium 10 mg since 2 year for migraine and vertigo. vertigo is fine but attacks of migraine are still 5 per month should i stop or continue?
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A 30-year old female asked:
Occasional Vertigo with nuesia which doctor i should see and which are the tests to be done to know the exact cause? Can be connected to depprsion?
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A 41-year old female asked:
40 y old female, woke w vertigo attack, still very dizzy, worse when lying down but present moderately at all times. no other sym's. ER or wait n see?
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A female asked:
Can epley manuever make vertigo go from occasional to chronic? I have a hx of cerebellar stroke.
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A 31-year old male asked:
Vertigo attack 4 weeks ago been lightheaded ever since, keep having electric jolt like sensations in head I'm worried ?
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A 68-year old female asked:
Had severe vertigo attacks two days in a row, when waking up. As soon as I raised my head off the pillow. Any ideas on the cause?
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A 24-year old female asked:
Wht causes vertigo & how to cure it?Ithink it got worse after airplane ride last week.What can be the immediate treatment after having vertigo attack?
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A 38-year old male asked:
Fluox, viagra (sildenafil) and vertigo. Any link? 40mg fluox for c4 wks, 20mg for c3 wks prior - no vert. occasional viag throughout - no vert. Now vert.
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