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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]; Associate Editor-In-Chief: M.Umer Tariq [2]

History and Symptoms

Patients with dizziness may have a positive history of^[1]^[2]:

Common symptoms of dizziness include^[3]^[4]^[4]^[5]:

Symptom or finding
Altered mental status
Transient loss of consciousness
Headache
Neck pain
Chest/back pain
Abdominal/back pain
Dyspnea
Palpitations
Bleeding or fluid losses
New/recent medication use
Fever or chills
Abnormal glucose

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↑ Kattah JC, Talkad AV, Wang DZ, Hsieh YH, Newman-Toker DE (2009). "HINTS to diagnose stroke in the acute vestibular syndrome: three-step bedside oculomotor examination more sensitive than early MRI diffusion-weighted imaging". Stroke. 40 (11): 3504–10. doi:10.1161/STROKEAHA.109.551234. PMC 4593511. PMID 19762709.
↑ Katon WJ (2006). "Clinical practice. Panic disorder". N Engl J Med. 354 (22): 2360–7. doi:10.1056/NEJMcp052466. PMID 16738272.
↑ ^4.0 ^4.1 Kanner AM (2011). "Ictal panic and interictal panic attacks: diagnostic and therapeutic principles". Neurol Clin. 29 (1): 163–75, ix. doi:10.1016/j.ncl.2010.11.002. PMID 21172577.
↑ Compter A, Kappelle LJ, Algra A, van der Worp HB (2013). "Nonfocal symptoms are more frequent in patients with vertebral artery than carotid artery stenosis". Cerebrovasc Dis. 35 (4): 378–84. doi:10.1159/000348849. PMID 23635415.