The most likely causes of dizziness and weakness

Causes of dizziness and weakness can include more than 80 diseases. After all among all other symptoms, these signs are most common. If such a phenomenon worries the patient very often and quite intensively, then it is urgent to consult a neurologist who is obliged to conduct a medical examination.

Weakness, dizziness, drowsiness: causes of unpleasant abnormalities

As mentioned above, these phenomena are typical for many diseases. Today we will consider the most probable and common ones. To clarify the diagnosis it is recommended to consult specialists.

Anemia

Quite often, the causes of dizziness and weakness lie in the banal iron deficiency in the human body. In this case, not only the above symptoms can be observed, but also external signs such as blanching of the skin, nail bundle and deformation of the nail plates. Also, with anemia in humans, a low level of hemoglobin in the blood is detected.

Disturbance of blood circulation in the brain

If the causes of dizziness and weakness are hidden behind the violation of blood circulation in the brain, the patient can observe himself and such signs as tinnitus, reduced concentration of attention and the appearance of black dots in front of the eyes.

Hypertensive attacks

Symptoms of this problem are quite similar to the previous disease. However, in addition to noise in the ears and other signs, this pathology includes such things as vomiting, dizziness, weakness. The reasons for this lie in a sharp increase in blood pressure and violations in the work of some internal organs.

Cardiopsychoneurosis

This disease is most often experienced by representatives of the weaker sex. Poor state of health in the form of dizziness and weakness can occur against a background of severe stress, emotional instability and psychological stress. Such girls and women have a predisposition to the development of hypertension in a more mature age.

Tumors of the brain

These symptoms are often observed in oncology. Symptoms of the tumor, in addition to weakness and dizziness, can act and such manifestations as:

• Severe headaches;
• Hearing loss (usually one ear);
• nausea;
• noise in ears;
• strabismus;
• Paralysis of facial muscles.

Migraine

Quite often during a migraine attack a person has a circulatory disorder in the brain that controls the vestibular apparatus. It is for this reason that this disease is characterized by severe dizziness, after which there may be pain in the nape of the neck, as well as imbalance, vomiting, intolerance to noise and light.

Among other things, there are also the following reasons for dizziness and weakness:

• Psychogenic factor;
• Meniere's disease ;
• Inflammation of the nerves of the vestibular apparatus or vestibular neuritis;
• Vertebrobasilar insufficiency;
• Trauma to cervical vertebrae;
• Head trauma;
• pregnancy.