Dizziness that occurs when you change the position of the body, head, for example, when standing up happens for one reason or another. If dizziness disturbs you for a long time with every change in body position, it is accompanied by a number of other symptoms, most likely the cause is a serious illness. Although dizziness upon rising began to be observed more often in recent years, in seemingly perfectly healthy people (in 30% of cases, going to the doctor). What are the reasons for this prevalence? How to deal with it?
Causes
The most obvious reason for this kind of dizziness - an erroneous assessment of the position of the body in space - are "problems" with the vestibular apparatus. Disruption of the vestibular apparatus could be preceded by a head injury or stroke. Changes in the sensations of balance could also occur due to inflammatory processes in the ears, due to disturbances in the entire vestibular apparatus (neuritis, neuronitis).
Another reason that causes dizziness when changing the position of the body are sharp changes in blood pressure. Dizziness upon rising is accompanied by a heartbeat in the temples.
But a large group of people prone to dizziness when changing their positions are leading a sedentary lifestyle. With a long stay in a sitting or lying position (especially lying), a sharp rise just leads to a loss of balance, noise in the ears and a loud heartbeat in the temples. Such symptoms are aggravated with the development of another disease, also characteristic of a sedentary lifestyle - osteochondrosis.
Increasingly, they began to reveal that the cause of dizziness lies in psychology, i.e. are associated with stress, depression, neurosis (obsessive state) and somatic (* somatic are diseases that could not have happened if a person hadn’t invented them for himself, if he hadn’t felt troubles to such an extent that they began to manifest in his body in form of real physical pain, malaise and dizziness).
It is clear why a change in body position in some cases complicated by a particular disease or lifestyle, leads to dizziness. But in some cases, dizziness is taken aback when you turn your head. Such dizziness is associated with vestibulopathy - damage to the vestibular system. The stronger, more pronounced, the symptoms are more varied (together with the symptoms described above, vomiting, visual impairment, weakening of smell, numbness in the limbs can be observed), the longer the symptoms appear, the more reasons to see a doctor more quickly. This is already "can not be attributed" to a slight dizziness upon rising.
How to diagnose
You can rely on the symptoms described in the article, but only for the purpose of determining which specialist to consult. Only a doctor can make a diagnosis that is justified by diagnostic methods, for example, tests (such as a positional test). Ultrasound and computed tomography will clarify the diagnosis.
Possible treatment
Treatment, of course, will depend on the causes of dizziness.
In some cases, a single procedure in the hands of an experienced doctor can help. Whatever the dizziness caused, one should not be afraid of the imaginary “deadly disease”. It may be due to a small defect that is easy to fix.
In others, there are also enough drugs that reduce dizziness (in a group of people leading a sedentary lifestyle). Thirdly, dizziness upon rising ceases to appear after a course of gymnastic exercises for the vestibular apparatus (the patient learns to coordinate his movements). And for the fourth, the treatment will already be much more serious (antibiotics, injections, constant monitoring by the attending physician).