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What Causes Constant Dizziness And Ear Pain During 31 Of Weeks Pregnancy?

Posted on Thu, 24 Dec 2015

Question: I'm 31 weeks pregnant and since week 20 I felt dizzy almost all the time but without headches and since last 2 weeks I started having left ear pain and head pain on that side it's not severe but annoying I went to the ENT and everything came back normal and then I went to see a neurologist and he performed an EEG and couple of more tests and he told me that everything is normal so what it could be ??

Answered by Dr. Rakesh Madhyastha (36 minutes later)

Brief Answer:
Postural hypotension

Detailed Answer:
Hello

Thanks for the query

From the history you have given it might be that you have postural hypotension. The growing fetus exerts effect that causes reduced return to the heart causing a drop in blood pressure causing giddiness.
I suggest you to get blood pressure in supine position first and then age in after standing up. If the fall in blood pressure is more than 20 systolic then this confirms the diagnosis

Please discuss about this with your obstetrician during your next visit

I hope I was of help, if you have any further queries please get back to me

Regards

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Above answer was peer-reviewed by : Dr. Sonia Raina