I am not a doctor, although I often played one in elementary school, but have you had sinus problem ie congestion, etc lately?

No infections nor sinus problems lately (although it could be sinus related, I suppose).

Iron Deficiency
Dehydration
Inner Ear Infection
Stress

all are possibles. half are easily fixed.

How long as the feeling been present? Have you been taking any different medications or changing up your diet? Breakfast is the most important meal of the day. Also, get lots of sun.

I'm only trying to help. I am a doctor, after all.

Really, you ask a bunch of monkeys for a diagnosis based on 3 lines of text? This is definitely a candidate for "Worst idea Mrs. C has had: 2010".

P.S. Bragr was right; You have cancer.

Reasons to actually see a doctor with vertigo:

-persistent symptoms for more than 24 hrs
-nausea/vomiting with dizziness
-neurological symptoms (vision changes, trouble with walking, speech, hearing, swallowing, sensation, or muscle function.
-worsening symptoms over time
-associated headache or fever.


I'm with Giller on this.

One amusing possibility the monkeys didn't come up with is pregnancy.

See your doctor.

So, do you feel this when you sit up after lying down? And is the sensation like you're doing a backflip? Are you fine for most of the time, then you get vertigo? If so:

You have a bit of calcium that has come loose and it is bouncing around in your ear canal. You're fine because it's lodged somewhere, then not fine when it comes loose.

You have these little hairs in there that detect the change in momentum of the inner ear fluid - yes, I know all these bits have medical names, but I'm not a doctor, I just like playing doctor ... with the ladies! See what I did there?

Anyway, the calcium bit is bouncing around and hitting the little hairs, triggering your brain to interpret it as movement. Since your eyes are telling you there's no movement, you feel vertigo.

What you have to do is sit in a chair or on the edge of your bed - someplace where you won't fall off. Then put your head between your knees and just shake your head every which way as violently as you can. Then sit up perfectly straight with your head level and don't move for 30 seconds.

What will happen then, if you're lucky, is you'll dislodge your calcium bit and it will float down to what is essentially an oil pan for your ear. Again, I don't know the medical name for it, but there is a little well at the bottom of your ear canal that is full of sticky stuff. It catches debris in the stickiness and it gets reabsorbed into your body. It's natures way of dealing with crap floating around your ear.

Anyway, if it's not that, you probably do have cancer, or AIDS. Or, it's cancerous AIDS.