2006-09-01 13:10:43 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Men's Health
fear of FALLING from high places... it's not a fear of heights... it's the fear of FALLING from the heights.
2006-09-01 13:12:53 · answer #1 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apart from the famous Hitchcock movie! It's a condition where you find you are losing your balance.
One common cause of temporary vertigo is labyrinthitis - a viral inflamation of the inner ear. There is no cure, but for most people it passes off in about 7-14 days.
Vertigo feels much like just stepping off a roller-coaster. The room can spin, and it can be so overwhelming that you fall, or vomit. I have had days where getting from the bed to the toilet involved crawling on the floor, because it was the only way I could move as the room spun madly around me!
Not something you want to experience very often.
2006-09-01 14:56:05 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vertigo is the medical term for dizziness. This can be caused by a variety of things. The two most common are extreme fluctuations in blood pressure, which could be caused by something as simple as standing up too quickly or it could arise from something more sinister, like a gunshot wound. the other predominant cause is an imbalance in the semi-circular fluid in your inner ear. This fluid tells your body which way is up and down and when either you've been spinning around for a while or you have some sort of latter stage inner ear infection the fluid is thrown off and your mind loses all sense of spacial reality. Yeah, that's about it, yeah, I rambled, sorry. Best of Luck.
2006-09-01 13:19:28 · answer #3 · answered by kropdawg 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
I have chronic vertigo with an unknown etiology. I take Anti Vert prophylactically each day. When you are feeling dizzy, keep your head straight, don't rest it in your hands or hang your head down, and look at something at eye level. This should be a temporary fix when things get really out of control. But the meds are the only thing that work long term, at least for me. Hope things stop spinning for ya!
2016-03-17 06:19:17 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vertigo is a form of dizziness or spinning effect that may be a result of a balance disorder.
2006-09-01 13:17:47 · answer #5 · answered by rosieC 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Main Entry: ver·ti·go
Pronunciation: 'v&r-ti-"gO
Function: noun
Inflected Form(s): plural -goes or -gos
Etymology: Middle English, from Latin vertigin-, vertigo, from vertere to turn
1 a : a sensation of motion in which the individual or the individual's surroundings seem to whirl dizzily b : a dizzy confused state of mind
2 : disordered vertiginous movement as a symptom of disease in lower animals; also : a disease (as gid) causing this
2006-09-01 13:13:42 · answer #6 · answered by §чﺀﺀчβчﻯ†a 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
An Alfred Hitchcock movie staring Jimmy Stewart, set in San Francisco.
2006-09-01 13:59:44 · answer #7 · answered by PARKERD 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It's where you feel like you're off balance all the time. Just think whenever you spin around too many times and you get dizzy. It's just like that except I don't think there's any cure for it. Old folks get it and also folks who have ear infections.
2006-09-01 13:13:32 · answer #8 · answered by DiG iT 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Vertigo and dizzyness are not the same thing.
Vertigo: you feel your room is sping around your body.
Dizziness: you feel you lose your balance when you walk, move your head etc., thanks, zapoyol
2006-09-01 13:31:32 · answer #9 · answered by zapoyol 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Incredible dizziness
2006-09-01 13:13:39 · answer #10 · answered by scrawndogg25 3 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Physically is a condition inside the ear that some channel get flood and you loose balance
2006-09-01 13:13:41 · answer #11 · answered by robotio 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋