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Vertigo: Staying Safe When You Have Balance Problems
Whether your vertigo is infrequent and mild or frequent and severe, it does have an impact on your life. These safety precautions and checklists will help make living with vertigo safer.
Depending on what is causing your vertigo, there may be steps you can take to reduce your episodes of vertigo. Talk to your doctor about a plan suited to your needs.
More information about vertigo can be found in the following topics:
- Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (BPPV)
- Ménière's Disease
- Dizziness: Lightheadedness and Vertigo
- Labyrinthitis
- Vestibular Neuritis
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Vertigo: Staying safe when you have balance problems
| Author: | Monica Rhodes | Last Updated: October 20, 2008 |
| Medical Review: | Anne C. Poinier, MD - Internal Medicine Sarah Marshall, MD - Family Medicine Barrie J. Hurwitz, MD - Neurology | |
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