It's horrible to feel dizzy - you're going along fine, and then the world - or at least your perception of it - starts spinning. You may lose your balance, and if you also feel nauseous, as often happens, you may lose your lunch too!
What in the world is going on? How can your ability to process reality take such a nosedive?
Like other bodily symptoms, dizziness is a symptom rather than a cause - it's a sign that something's not right. But what?
Here are some of the most likely conditions dizziness might indicate:
1. Food poisoning. This usually happens within 12-24 hours after you ate contaminated food.
2. Malfunction in the gall bladder, possibly due to an infection or stones, which can cause a reduction in bile flow or even block bile flow entirely, causing you to be unable to properly digest your food.
3. Weakness in the coronary artery and/ or major blood vessels of the heart, causing them to collapse. They're like a hose in that respect - they need good, strong walls to stay round and allow blood to flow through unimpeded.
4. Toxicity due to heavy metal poisoning. Primary source? Check out any leaking 'silver' amalgam fillings, which are over 50% mercury.
5. Ear infection, whether bacterial, viral or yeast.These can interfere with the balancing mechanisms in the inner ear.
6. Subluxation of vertebrae in the neck, especially the Atlas & C4, which cause the balancing mechanisms in the inner ear not to work properly.
7. Circulatory disturbance or weakness or hardening of carotid arteries that supply blood to the brain.
8. Virus affecting the heart or heart valves. Heart muscle can be weakened by viruses.
9. Hyper-stimulation of the central nervous system due to physical or emotional stressors.
10.Low cerebral spinal fluid, often due to loss of particular mineral salts that hold the fluid inside the cells.
11. Adrenal exhaustion - especially likely if dizziness occurs if getting up fast from lying down or sitting.
12. Prescription or non-prescription medications, especially blood pressure medications, antibiotics, pain relievers, drugs used to treat cancer, depression or anxiety, anti-convulsants, diuretics, nitroglycerine, quinine, salicylates, alcohol, cocaine.
13. Motion sickness.
14. Low blood sugar.
15. Acute anxiety or panic attack.
16. Shock, as in suddenly receiving bad news or being physically injured.
While this list is by no means exhaustive, it represents the most common - and therefore the most likely - candidates. Check them out first and you're likely to stumble upon the cause (or causes). Then this otherwise noxious symptom has become a blessing in disguise because it has alerted you to a condition you needed to address to keep or improve your health and well being
Pamela Levin is an R.N. and a Teaching & Supervising Transactiona Analyst. In private practice 42 years, she has hundreds of postgraduate hours in clinical nutrition, herbology, applied kinesiology and women's health issues. She is founder and editor of BetterHealthBytes, a bi-weekly newsletter with health tips. If you have a topic you'd like covered, you can request it at http://www.betterhealthbytes.com/Ask-About-Health.html. There are also lots of free articles to support your better health and greater well being of body, mind, spirit, emotions and relationships.
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