A degree of dizziness is natural, but it's important to pay attention to how long, and how intense, your dizzy spells are.

Numerous treatments are available to help the dizzy and spinning sensations that people with vertigo experience. Sometimes vertigo goes away without any treatment. Options range from medication to ...

Inner ear problems are the most common causes of sudden dizziness and nausea. These include BPPV, Meniere’s disease, and vestibular neuritis. But there are several other possible causes. A sudden ...

Many times, people use dizziness and vertigo interchangeably, but there is a difference. While they are both balance problems, dizziness is an overall feeling of being unbalanced. With vertigo, there ...

Vertigo is the sensation that a person’s surroundings are spinning or moving. It has many potential causes, including inner ear or nervous system disorders. Ear infections, migraine, Ménière’s disease ...

Most vertigo episodes last from a few seconds to a few hours. However, severe vertigo caused by an underlying health condition may come and go over several weeks or months. In such cases, the vertigo ...

The song “You Spin Me Round (Like a Record)” is not about benign positional vertigo (BPV). It’s not about an actual record either. But the song’s title could in some ways describe the symptoms that ...

Most people have felt woozy or lightheaded at least once in their lives. But feeling dizzy several times a month is much more common in people over age 65 — and it’s a big reason for seeing the doctor ...

Vertigo, or dizziness, can last for hours or even weeks and can be debilitating. Treatment use to involve drugs, even surgery, but new guidelines recommend a much easier fix. Last year Melvin ...