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What Does Prolonged Headache With Dizziness Indicate?
Hi, a migrane although never had one before started on Thursday evening, I spent the following 2 days in bed, my eyes are glassey in appearance and still have a headache over my right side of my head, I feel quite dizzy and feel like I m not here if that makes sense... Is this still the migrane or something else?
Tue, 20 Aug 2019
Hi,
If you have terrible nausea and vomiting along with these headaches, ringing in the ears or in one ear (seemingly) along with noticeable hearing loss on one side of the head then, you may very well be suffering from MENIERE'S Disease. Please see an otologist for proper dientification and treatment of this condition.
If on the other hand you have terrible migraine like headaches that are debilitating with some of the symptoms I've mentioned but WITHOUT the hearing loss component then, you may have something commonly referred to as MIGRAINOUS VERTIGO or VERTIGINOUS MIGRAINE headaches. For this condition you should see a neurologist or even better yet, a HEADACHE SPECIALIST. The 3rd and LEAST LIKELY possibility is a viral infection of the inner ear which we call LABRYNTHITIS. This is probably the most commonly forwarded differential diagnosis with this description of symptoms, however, viral labrynthitis is nothing that is easily proven nor are the symptoms quite as egregious as you've mentioned and so that is the reason I'm swayed away this otherwise, good hydration, tincture of time, and taking it a bit easy without too much movement is usually sufficient to cool this entity's jets over the period of about 7-10 days.
I hope this answers your query. I remain at your disposal in case further medical assistance is needed. There's not a whole lot of data even that this thing is actually caused by a virus...but we like to say it so...we do! HA!
Wish you the best of health.
Thank you.
Regards,
Dr. Dariush Saghafi, Neurologist
If you have terrible nausea and vomiting along with these headaches, ringing in the ears or in one ear (seemingly) along with noticeable hearing loss on one side of the head then, you may very well be suffering from MENIERE'S Disease. Please see an otologist for proper dientification and treatment of this condition.
If on the other hand you have terrible migraine like headaches that are debilitating with some of the symptoms I've mentioned but WITHOUT the hearing loss component then, you may have something commonly referred to as MIGRAINOUS VERTIGO or VERTIGINOUS MIGRAINE headaches. For this condition you should see a neurologist or even better yet, a HEADACHE SPECIALIST. The 3rd and LEAST LIKELY possibility is a viral infection of the inner ear which we call LABRYNTHITIS. This is probably the most commonly forwarded differential diagnosis with this description of symptoms, however, viral labrynthitis is nothing that is easily proven nor are the symptoms quite as egregious as you've mentioned and so that is the reason I'm swayed away this otherwise, good hydration, tincture of time, and taking it a bit easy without too much movement is usually sufficient to cool this entity's jets over the period of about 7-10 days.
I hope this answers your query. I remain at your disposal in case further medical assistance is needed. There's not a whole lot of data even that this thing is actually caused by a virus...but we like to say it so...we do! HA!
Wish you the best of health.
Thank you.
Regards,
Dr. Dariush Saghafi, Neurologist
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