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During a consultation, your doctor will use various techniques to assess the symptom: Balance symptoms. These will include a physical examination and possibly diagnostic tests. (Note: A physical exam is always done, diagnostic tests may or may not be performed depending on the suspected condition) Your doctor will ask several questions when assessing your condition. It is important to openly share any pertinent information to help your doctor make an accurate diagnosis.
It is also very important to bring an up-to-date list of all of your all medical conditions, medications including dosages, and names of numbers of any specialist you see.
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Why: determines if acute or chronic.
Why: helps determine cause.
Why: vertigo is characteristically precipitated by standing up or turning head or by movement.
Why: would suggest anxiety as cause.
Why: suggestive of vestibular neuronitis, Viral labyrinthitis.
Why: chronic or repeated middle ear infections which can predispose to cholesteatoma which can erode into the internal ear and cause problems with balance.
Why: Blood pressure medications, tranquilizer medication, phenytoin, aspirin, some antibiotics (e.g. streptomycin, gentamycin, minocycline), antidepressants, quinine.
Why: e.g. alcohol, marijuana, cocaine - may cause problems with balance.
Why: sudden sense of movement , an hallucination of rotation of self or the environment.
Why: unsteadiness or lightheadedness - without sudden sense of movement.
Why: may suggest Meniere's disease, viral labyrinthitis, Acoustic neuroma, cholesteatoma.
Why: may suggest Meniere's disease, viral labyrinthitis, Acoustic neuroma, cholesteatoma.
Why: may suggest Multiple sclerosis.
Why: may suggest vestibular neuronitis, viral labyrinthitis, Meniere's disease.
Why: cervical vertebral dysfunction can compress the vertebral arteries in the vertebral canal and can be associated with benign positional vertigo.
Why: with severe vertigo are features of lateral medullary syndrome , a type of brain stem stroke.
Why: may suggest complex partial seizures, brain tumor.
The following list of conditions have 'Balance symptoms' or similar listed as a symptom in our database. This computer-generated list may be inaccurate or incomplete. Always seek prompt professional medical advice about the cause of any symptom.
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The following list of medical conditions have 'Balance symptoms'
or similar listed as a medical complication in our database.
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