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How Can I Treat Dizziness Due To Carrying Heavy Objects?

Hi, looking for some advice.

I have since moved jobs, moving to the top floor of a 5-storey building. On a daily basis I have been using the lift roughly 8 times per day due to heavy carrying and I am now suffering from dizziness, feeling like I am bobbing in the sea. Help, I just don't feel too good.



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Hello and welcome to health care magic.
Your description is suggestive of a balance disorder called BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo)
Our ear plays a vital role in maintaining the balance. It's done through the change in position of small calcium crystals inside the ear which occurs in accordance with the change in position of head. Sometimes the position of these calcium crystals (called otoliths) may change following a sudden fall or head trauma and this causes disturbance in balance and vertigo like feeling especially when we use lifts or in flights.
My advice is to visit an ENT specialist and let him have a look at your symptoms.
He will prescribe anti vertigo drugs like vertin and will teach you some exercises for the head which will help to reposition these otoliths.
Hope this discussion will be helpful to you.
Thank you.
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How Can I Treat Dizziness Due To Carrying Heavy Objects?

Hello and welcome to health care magic. Your description is suggestive of a balance disorder called BPPV (benign paroxysmal positional vertigo) Our ear plays a vital role in maintaining the balance. It s done through the change in position of small calcium crystals inside the ear which occurs in accordance with the change in position of head. Sometimes the position of these calcium crystals (called otoliths) may change following a sudden fall or head trauma and this causes disturbance in balance and vertigo like feeling especially when we use lifts or in flights. My advice is to visit an ENT specialist and let him have a look at your symptoms. He will prescribe anti vertigo drugs like vertin and will teach you some exercises for the head which will help to reposition these otoliths. Hope this discussion will be helpful to you. Thank you.