Common Symptoms And Causes Of Dizziness

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Treatment Of Dizziness

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Unless there’s an underlying health condition, dizziness often resolves itself fairly quickly even without treatment. If you do seek medical care, your doctor will base the remedy on your symptoms and the cause of your condition. Even if no cause is determined but your dizziness persists, your doctor may prescribe medications and other treatments to help manage your symptoms. This may include prescription drugs, balance therapy and vertigo maneuvers, or surgical procedures.

If you have Meniere’s disease, your doctor may prescribe diuretics or water pills to relieve the inner ear fluid build-up and vertigo. Your doctor may prescribe antihistamines and anticholinergics to relieve dizziness, nausea, vertigo, and motion sickness; however, many of these drugs cause drowsiness.

Balance therapy exercises, such as vestibular rehabilitation exercises, are designed to help make your balance system less sensitive to motion. Psychotherapy may help treat dizziness caused by anxiety disorders. Head position maneuvers, such as the Epley maneuver or canalith repositioning, may help resolve benign paroxysmal positional vertigo.

Your doctor may also inject your inner ear with gentamicin, an antibiotic intended to purposefully damage your inner ear to stop dizzy spells and let your unaffected ear take over the balance function. A labyrinthectomy is a destructive surgical procedure also used to disable the balance function in your affected ear; however, this procedure is only used if you have serious hearing loss or severe dizziness that hasn’t responded to other treatments.