Vertigo is a specific kind of dizziness — a false sense that you or your surroundings are spinning. It almost always comes from the inner ear or its connections, and the right diagnosis (BPPV, vestibular neuritis, Meniere's disease, vestibular migraine) leads to very different and very effective treatments.
Vestibular Condition · Dr. Naseer's ENT
The balance organs in your inner ear send signals to the brain about head position and movement. Anything that disturbs those signals — displaced crystals, viral inflammation, fluid build-up, migraine — produces vertigo.
The single most common cause is BPPV, in which tiny calcium crystals fall into the wrong canal and trigger brief spins with head movement. A specific bedside manoeuvre (the Epley) resolves it in most people in a single session — yet many sufferers spend months on medication before someone tries it.
New-onset severe vertigo, vertigo with hearing loss, vertigo with neurological symptoms (weakness, slurred speech, severe headache, double vision), or repeated falls — see us promptly. Routine positional vertigo can usually be booked normally and we will aim to perform the manoeuvre at the first visit.