Today, while most homes are wired and people can travel freely, conducting their phone conversations wirelessly, wiretapping and other surveillance methods can be utilized to listen in on their private business. Yet, the invention of the telephone also worked to increase privacy in many ways.
However, if the dizziness is accompanied by other abnormal factors such as double vision, vomiting or trouble using your arms and legs, Lotkowski said you should get to the doctor or emergency room immediately. Vertigo causes a patient to feel like there is movement where there is none.
So what triggered the leap from hearing loss to incapacitating dizziness in Miller's case? The etiology is unknown, Miller says, pointing to the possibility of a virus or inner-ear inflammation. Tumors are another cause, says Nevin, along with specific conditions such as Meniere's disease or benign paroxysmal positional vertigo, the latter of which is the most common. In BPPV, which is diagnosed with a simple clinical test, particles in the inner ear dislodge and cause the spinning sensation when one rolls over in bed or bends. I can't remove the particles, but I can help them go back in place, says Nevin.