Spin Control: What do Do When You're Dizzy

Written by Gary Cordingley


Dizzy Dean,repparttar great baseball pitcher ofrepparttar 137488 1930s-1940s, once quipped, "The doctors x-rayed my head and found nothing."

That is as good an analogy as any in describing what often happens to patients withrepparttar 137489 symptom of dizziness. They see a doctor, get an MRI scan (the x-ray ofrepparttar 137490 21st century) and nothing is found.

To extendrepparttar 137491 baseball theme, patients sometimes complete a triple-play—going from family doctor to ear specialist to neurologist. And when all is said and done, none ofrepparttar 137492 doctors is willing to ownrepparttar 137493 symptom. Each says it'srepparttar 137494 other doctors' problem!

So where does that leaverepparttar 137495 patient? Probably out of a lot of bucks and getting more frustrated byrepparttar 137496 minute!

But, upon close analysis ofrepparttar 137497 symptom, a case of dizziness can give up its secrets. It turns out thatrepparttar 137498 word "dizziness" gets used to describe a variety of experiences, and those different experiences can themselves result from a number of underlying causes.

Sorepparttar 137499 way one gets to first base is to sort throughrepparttar 137500 patterns and narrow downrepparttar 137501 list of possibilities. In analyzingrepparttar 137502 symptom of dizziness, sometimes a multiple-choice approach works best. Most people can select one ofrepparttar 137503 following three descriptions as most resembling their symptom:

#1. A sense of motion, perhaps spinning, rotating or even just drifting in space. It doesn't matter ifrepparttar 137504 person feels they are spinning or thatrepparttar 137505 room around them is spinning: both mis-perceptions haverepparttar 137506 same significance. These perceptions are known as "vertigo."

#2. A feeling of unsteadiness or imbalance inrepparttar 137507 body more than inrepparttar 137508 head.

#3. A feeling of light-headedness, wooziness, giddiness, or even verging on losing consciousness.

Thatrepparttar 137509 term "dizzy" can sometimes have still other connotations is illustrated by Mr. Dean's own nickname. He probably didn't get it because of attacks of imbalance. In fact,repparttar 137510 pitcher supplied his own explanation with another of his famous quips: "The good Lord was good to me. He gave me a strong body, a good right arm, and a weak mind."

Let's focus onrepparttar 137511 more usual three patterns.

Distinguishing among these patterns helps separaterepparttar 137512 cases involvingrepparttar 137513 head's balance (vestibular) system from those that don't. In short, pattern #1 (vertigo) is most likely to involve a disturbance inrepparttar 137514 balance system, while pattern #3 (light-headedness) is least likely. Instead, light-headedness or wooziness can be due to a momentary drop in blood pressure (for example, when standing up too quickly) or due torepparttar 137515 same factors that produce outright fainting. Pattern #2 (bodily imbalance) is somewhere in-between—-sometimes caused by a disturbed balance system and sometimes due to something else.

The vestibular system consists ofrepparttar 137516 left and right inner ears, certain pathways withinrepparttar 137517 brainstem (junction betweenrepparttar 137518 upper brain andrepparttar 137519 spinal cord) andrepparttar 137520 nerves that connectrepparttar 137521 inner ears torepparttar 137522 brainstem. A problem in any of these components can lead torepparttar 137523 symptom of vertigo. Butrepparttar 137524 kinds of problems that can disturbrepparttar 137525 brainstem—-like stroke, tumor or multiple sclerosis—-are quite different and usually more serious than mostrepparttar 137526 conditions that disturbrepparttar 137527 inner ears or their associated nerves.

Why must we live happily?

Written by Cecilia Chang


Copyright © Cecilia Chang

What is your feeling today? Do you feel happy or sorrow?

Feeling, I can say isrepparttar most important factor in our life. Don't you agree? When our mood is low, it affects our work and health.

Woman has more mood swings than man. Why most ofrepparttar 137472 people say that?

In many occasions when we have anything relate to woman, people would rather choose man to woman because woman are very weird. Their feelings are always changing and you can't understand.

Like you are having a female teacher; principle; met a female dentist or doctor, when she lets out her temper, everyone will be thinking: “Oh a single who never marry, her feelings is not stable...etc."

Do you haverepparttar 137473 same thinking also?

Your mood affects your concentration at work. You find yourself day dreaming while your lecturer is teaching or when you are in a meeting. Having many mistakes on your work.

If you are working with money related tasks, you must be very conscious. A small error may lead to a very serious problems. You are already in a very low mood but still get scolding and that's very annoying.

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