Like nausea, anxiety, hearing loss, pressure or fullness in your head or ears, or a ringing in the ears called tinnitus. Once again, it helps your doctor to know precisely what other problems, if any, accompany your dizziness. N obody likes dizziness, any more than we like pain. But like pain, dizziness is a warning that something else may be wrong. Something we need to detect and treat.
Dizziness can be a symptom of all sorts of disorders.
Most common are vestibular disorders - problems in the inner ear, particularly in the vestibular system which controls our sense of balance. Or dizziness can be a sign of cardiovascular problems like high blood pressure or anemia. Dizziness can be a symptom of an infection - bacterial or viral. Dizziness can also be a reaction to some medications, especially a category of antibiotics called aminoglycosides. Sometimes no specific cause for dizziness can be identified, but by eliminating the more serious possibilities, you and your physician can confidently deal with the symptoms.