Inflammation of the inner ear structure known as labyrinthitis may also lead to symptoms of vertigo due to a viral or bacterial infection.The symptoms are triggered following sudden head movement especially in a particular direction. Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) is the most common disease causing vertigo.There are a number of medical conditions responsible for vertigo but the cause of vertigo cannot always be identified. Attacks of vertigo can be so severe that it can affect the quality of life and impair professional, personal or social life.Patients suffering from intense vertigo may complain of impaired vision, difficulty in speech, altered consciousness, difficulty maintaining balance and abnormal gait.Sometimes there may be associated hearing loss and ringing sensation in the ears (tinnitus), ear pain and a feeling of fullness or throbbing sensation in the ear.Usually the symptoms occur due to a change in position or during motion. The feeling may occur in episodes or is constant. Duration of vertigo attacks may last for minutes to hours.Classically symptoms of vertigo co-exist with the feeling of disorientation, intense feeling of nausea, vomiting, profuse sweating during vertigo attacks and abnormal movement of the eyes.The patient complains of spinning of head or surroundings without any external stimulus.
Vertigo is not a medical condition but rather a symptom that indicates presence of underlying disease. A third variety of vertigo is also there known as pseudovertigo where the patient the intense feeling of spinning inside the head.In objective vertigo the patient suffers from the illusion that the surroundings are moving or spinning.In the subjective variety of vertigo, patients feel that they is moving or spinning around.There are two types of vertigo – subjective and objective.
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