Ending Vertigo Today

Sleepy all the time? Snoring can make you dizzy

Sleepiness is an important clue to the source of dizziness. Do you awaken in the night and have trouble falling back asleep? Are you sleepy during the day, drifting off during meetings? These are hints that your dizziness may be linked to your lack of sleep. Sleep apnea is a serious cause of these symptoms and can lead directly to dizziness.

Vestibular Migraine

Migraines are a common inherited form of severe headache, often on one side of the head. Nausea and worsening with bright lights or loud noises is typical. People with migraine are more sensitive to all sensations than other people, including sensitivity to motion, dizziness and pain. Reduced blood flow in the brain can cause temporary malfunction of the affected area of brain, causing transient neurological symptoms, called aura, such as dizziness, tingling, visual illusions such as flickering lights in the eyes, or a blind spot in vision.

BPPV

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is a mechanical disorder of the semicircular canals of the inner ear. There are three of these ring-shaped canals in each ear, along with two other sensors that are able to sense gravity because they are capped by a bed of relatively heavy crystals. It is the shifting of these crystals on the gravity sensor that give you the sensation of going up and down in an elevator, or let you know when your head is tilted. The problem is that all of the canals and the gravity sensors are interconnected by fluid pathways, so if these gravity-sensor crystals become dislodged, they can migrate into other parts of the ear.