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Dizziness or a Spinning Sensation (Vertigo)
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Full information
Dizziness or a Spinning Sensation (Vertigo)
A person feeling as though they or their environment is spinning uncontrollably.
Symptom classification
Body areaEars
Body areaEars
Body areaHead
Body areaInner Ear
Conditions linked to this sign/symptom
31- Acoustic Neuroma
- Atlantoaxial Subluxation
- Autoimmune Metaplastic Atrophic Gastritis
- Barotrauma
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo
- Chronic Blood Loss
- Cogans Syndrome
- Decompression Sickness
- Endometriosis
- Essential Thrombocythemia
- Herpes Zoster Oticus
- Hypomagnesemia
- Ischaemic Heart Disease
- Ischemic Stroke
- Low Pressure Headache
- Lyme Disease
- Macroglobulinemia
- Menieres Disease
- Motion Sickness
- Multiple Sclerosis
- Otic Tumors
- Otitis Media
- Otosclerosis
- Purulent Labyrinthitis
- Relapsing Polychondritis
- Stroke
- Sudden Deafness
- Syrinx
- Traumatic Perforation of The Tympanic Membrane
- Vertigo
- Vestibular Neuronitis
Drugs where this is listed as a side effect
39- Acitretin
- Allopurinol
- Alprazolam
- Bumetanide
- Candesartan
- Clonazepam
- Cortisone
- Diazepam
- Flunitrazepam
- Flurbiprofen
- Frusemide (Furosemide)
- Gentamicin
- Hydroxychloroquine
- Indomethacin
- Infliximab
- Lithium
- Lorazepam
- Mefloquine
- Mianserin
- Minocycline
- Nitrazepam
- Nitrofurantoin
- Oxazepam
- Pantoprazole
- Papaverine
- Phenytoin
- Proguanil
- Quinidine
- Simvastatin
- Streptomycin
- Sumatriptan
- Tadalafil
- Temazepam
- Terazosin
- Thalidomide
- Tobramycin
- Trandolapril
- Valaciclovir
- Vardenafil