Health Matters: When Dizziness Needs Health Intervention

Feeling dizzy isn’t a comfortable feeling, and for many people it can result in clumsiness, nausea, and inability to focus.

But as KVRR’s Sarah Brechbill found out it’s not just rollercoasters leaving people with that room spinning sensation.

Dizziness is the number three reason people go into seek medical attention.

There are a number of reasons behind the uncomfortable sensation, and finding out is key to getting your dizziness possibly gone for good.
 
A rollercoaster ride or standing up too fast can leave anyone feeling off balance.

But if that dizziness just won’t go away…there could be other underlying factors.
 
“Which could be more of blood pressure related issue, a brain related issue or that inner ear system as well.”
 
With all of her patients feeling slightly off, Deena’s first step to stopping the dizziness is to determine the cause.
 
“When I have a patient come to me I ask them describe your dizziness that channels me to think is it true vertigo.”
 
Vertigo is usually due to a problem with the inner ear and it’s a problem that can usually be fixed pretty easily.
 
“I tell my patients to focus on an object and then I have them move their head in certain directions.”
 
Hansen says there are crystals in the ear that can make you sensitive to gravity.
If they become loose, dizziness can result.
 
“After a head injury or aging, those crystals can get dislodged into that canal and our body senses that and that makes us dizzy.”
 
Hansen says simple therapy techniques can potentially get rid of the feeling, for good.
But how do you know what your feeling is true vertigo?
 
“If you wake up with room spinning vertigo that makes you sick, makes you nauseous, vomiting then that’s when you go into see your doctor right away.”

Hansen also says another rule of thumb is how sudden that feeling develops.

She says if you lie in a certain position and always experience room spinning; you’re probably experiencing vertigo.