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Small crystals of calcium float in the fluid in the inner ear. These crystals can get into the semicircular canals and cause vertigo. When you change the position of your head, they then strike against nerve endings in the semicircular canals and cause the feelings of spinning.
For most underlyng conditions causing vertigo, not a lightness in the head, but a feeling that the world is spinning around you, causing nausea and one unable to stand up, e.g. vestibular neuronitis, vestibular nerve Schwannoma, MeniÃ¨re's disease, we have little to offer.