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Dizziness And Head Spinning At Night Periodically. Is This Vertigo?
I wake up int he middle of the night periodically and my head is spinning...I feel so dizzy and it won t stop. Sometimesd it lasts 10 minutes - 30 minutes. It make me feel sick to my stomach ...it s like getting off a ride that spins. Doctor said could be vertigo but why does it only happen at night and only periodically?
Mon, 7 Apr 2014
Hello and welcome to health care magic,
What you have described seems very much like vertigo and the most common cause of peripheral vertigo is related to the ear.
Many forms of vertigo related to the ear happen due to positional changes such as what is seen in the night during sleep like the BPPV.
So in any case you must get a audiometry testing along with CT of the temporal bones and get back to me or any ENT with the reports as soon as possible
regards
Dr Sriram Nathan
What you have described seems very much like vertigo and the most common cause of peripheral vertigo is related to the ear.
Many forms of vertigo related to the ear happen due to positional changes such as what is seen in the night during sleep like the BPPV.
So in any case you must get a audiometry testing along with CT of the temporal bones and get back to me or any ENT with the reports as soon as possible
regards
Dr Sriram Nathan
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