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Discomfort in my head/lightheaded
When I am standing or when walking at times I feel I am losing balance. I am experiencing neck pain as well. And have been having headaches as well. Till now have been checking for eye correction and migraine related treatments. I am an IT professsional with 6-7 hours of laptop usage everyday at the least. I am experiencing light headed almost all the time.
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It seems that you have cervical spondylitis and it happens in IT professional who has long sitting desk work on laptop and odd posture give a lot of strain to the neck compressing all nerve roots in cervical spine, it also causes reduced blood supply to some extent to brain because of the posture and cause the giddiness or feeling of losing balance.
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X Ray Cervical Spine AP and Lateral and share Online via Consult chat window which is paid one against my profile
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Calcium, Vit D, Vit B 12, Vit K2, neck flexibility exercise
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This can be very well linked to
1. Changes in Blood Pressure
2. Vertigo due to imbalance in ear fluids.
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Take tab. Stemetil MD 5mg 1 tab 2 times a day for 5 days/SOS after that when this happens.
Monitor BP on regular basis
Drink plenty of water and try to take break every 1 hour for 10 minutes while using Laptoo
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Consult me online for further queries
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Dr. Animesh Gupta
General Physician
17 yrs exp
Patna
Try to cut down constant laptop usage. Do u have giddiness? What are the medicine u taking now
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Do CT scan of Brain
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Take a 10 min break after 1 hour of laptop usage, wash ur face with cold water. Take more of citrus fruits
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Dr. Neha Jain
General Physician
13 yrs exp
Gurgaon
Get your BP checked, looks like cervical vertigo, might need investigation to rule out other causes
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