Symptoms of Vertigo
Usually the symptoms start suddenly and person may experience a spinning or moving feeling depending on the severity. Vertigo can also accompanied by nausea or vomiting and may last for a few minutes, or sometimes even for hours or days.
It occurs with giddiness and vomiting, sometimes with the noise or ringing sensation in the ear [tinnitus]. In some conditions of Meniere’s disease, there could be fullness of the ears or a diminished hearing.
Usually these symptoms occur as attacks. With each attack the hearing may decrease . These episodes can last several hours and may occur recurrently every day. With each episode the hearing lose worsens.
Vertigo, due to central causes [disease from the central nervous system], can also be accompanied by slurring of speech.
Visual disturbances like diplopia [double vision]/ blurring of vision
Headaches
Tingling numbness in limbs
Ataxia
Blackouts
Investigations are usually done through audiological, audiogram, and hearing index. These aids to discriminate peripheral and central vertigo [if the disease causes the vertigo is in the central nervous system then it’s called central vertigo; if the vertigo arises from the inner ear, it is peripheral vertigo]. An ophthalmologic check up should also be done to check for visual disturbances and other eye related problems.