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* "DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  arpanand - 04/17/09 09:09
 
  Fluid loss:
Vaso-dilators ( anti-hypertensive medications), with diarrhea, or both of them independently vomiting and blood loss

ISCHEMIA RELATED : arrhythmia, TIA , STROKE

ORTHOSTATIC HYPOTENSION,

B.P.P.V., VESTIBULAR NEURONITIS, MEINERE'S DISEASE, COCHLEAR DAMAGE, ACOUSTIC

NEUROMA

CEREBELLAR TUMOR, ALCOHOL ( DAMAGING CEREBELLUM)

AUTONOMIC DYSFUNCTION: DIABETES
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GENERAL QUESTION:
What do you mean by dizziness? do you mean room spinning around you or you spinning inside ?
ONSET

PROGRESSION

DURATION

CONSISTENCY

FREQUENCY DURING DAY

anything that makes it better

anything that makes it worse

what causes the dizziness to start

H/o FALL, WHICH SIDE,
H/o TREMORS, h/o CHANGE IN STYLE OF WALKING
H/o FEVER,

H/o LOOSE BOWEL MOVEMENTS

H/O HEAD TRAUMA ,

H/o vomiting,

H/o headache,

H/o seizures

H/o SKIN PROBLEM ( Bumps on the skin)NF2 associated with Acoustic Neuroma

H/o Effect of the position, of head and body

H/o ear pain H/o

H/o discharge

H/o decreased hearing

H/o ear fullness

H/o CHEST PAIN

H/o SOB

H/o RACING HEART

H/o INTAKE OF MEDICATION LIKE DIURETICS, VASODILATORS AND AMINOGLYCOSIDES ,
SEDATIVES

H/O THYROID PROBLEM( PALPITATION AND ARRHYTHMIA

H/O STD---> NEUROSYPHILIS
H/O FATIGUE, INCREASED HUNGER, INCREASED THIRST, INCREASED URINATION
 
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  arpanand - 04/17/09 09:53
 
   
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  anuraj_81 - 04/17/09 10:21
 
  wonderful apranand:)

H/o URI can be added.
 
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  steelman - 04/17/09 10:50
 
  beautiful.thanks  
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  csprep09 - 04/17/09 11:07
 
  good job....
i wud like to add difference between vestibular neuronitis & labrynthitis is... pt will complain of loss oh hearing in labrynthitis.... no such history in VN... both have h/o URI
 
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  arpanand - 04/17/09 20:36
 
  thanks  
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  sunshinek08 - 04/17/09 21:17
 
  thanks . Too good  
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  anuraj_81 - 04/17/09 22:13
 
  nice point csprep09.  
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  khan2020 - 04/23/09 18:14
 
  thanks. very helpful.  
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  amit76 - 04/26/09 08:49
 
   
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* Re:"DIZZINESS" causes:"MUST SEE"
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  ishu - 04/26/09 09:41
 
  how to ask history of URI? I mean to say wordings  
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