Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Still Spinning - Dizziness and Vertigo

By Christian Goodman

You may feel like you are turning around in circles even though you are standing still. That is how some vertigo sufferers describe the feeling.

Sufferers explain that the world around them seems to be swaying or moving - not necessarily the person who is experiencing the problem.

Many people dismiss it as nothing more than a bout of dizziness, or toss it off as just feeling lightheaded.

But the National Institute of Health reports that 40% of adults will deal with an episode of vertigo at least once.

The older we get, the more common it becomes. In addition gender plays a role as more women than men tend to suffer.

Chronic dizziness or vertigo is often due to an inner ear infection or problem such as labyrinthitis.

When labyrinthitis occurs, a person can experience nausea, motion sickness and other syptoms. It causes the dizzy feeling as faulty information about position and balance are going to the brain.

The brain just cannot process the conflicting information.

When the canals, or labyrinths, are irritated, the brain often receives the wrong information. The result is objects spinning or moving around you.

People do not always seek help, or when they do it does not alway get diagnozed. The person then continues to suffer from such problems as hearing loss and/or tinnitus.

Treatment is often not sought due to the seemingly temporary nature of the problem.

Unfortunately, the problem reoccurs and can last weeks or even longer.

It can be easy to assume dizziness is a result of something common (like being really tired) so a number of episodes don't necessarily present a pattern.

The problem then persists. Once diagnosed, medication is usually suggested such as promethazine.

The drugs are usually either promethazine or meclizine. Some brand names are Dramamine, Meni-D, Adgan and others.

Of course with medications come side effects and other potential problems.

What most people don't know, and something that most doctors don't tell you, is that there could be another cause for your vertigo. Something besides an inner ear infection.

Muscular tension in the ear area can in fact be causing the problem.

As odd as that may sound, if you have tension in the muscles around your eyes, ears, or your body line from the top of your head to your pelvic bone, you may experience vertigo or episodes of dizziness as a result.

I've developed a natural system for relaxing and releasing that muscle tension that has allowed thousands of people to free themselves from vertigo.

By performing a few simple exercises every day, they soon report no more dizzying episodes.

The results that have been reported to me have been nothing less than amazing. So if you suffer, even occasionally, from feeling like everything is spinning around you, I encourage you to give my natural vertigo system a try. It will bring your world back into focus for you.

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