I get dizziness when I look up or get up. What is causing this?

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Welcome to icliniq.com. I carefully read your question and explained that your symptoms do not seem to be related to intracranial hypertension or any other disorders. An inner ear disorder, vertigo, or epilepsy may lead to such a clinical situation. For this reason, I recommend consulting with an ENT specialist and performing labyrinthine tests to exclude an inner ear disorder. If this test result is normal, I would recommend performing an electroencephalogram (EEG). It is necessary to check also thyroid hormone levels for possible thyroid gland dysfunction. Hope you will find this answer helpful.

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Welcome back to icliniq.com. It is not typical for epilepsy seizures to be triggered by looking up or standing up position. Anyway, an electroencephalogram (EEG) would help exclude this possibility. Cervical spine chronic degeneration can trigger all these clinical scenarios too. For this reason, it is important performing a cervical column X-ray study. I recommend consulting with an ear, nose and throat (ENT) specialist and performing labyrinthine tests, as inner ear dizziness is usually triggered by head movements (like in your case). Another possibility to consider is orthostatic hypotension, a disorder characterized by decreased blood pressure values when standing up or sitting from a lying position. Again, head Up Tilt test would help investigate this disorder. Regarding intracranial hypotension, we can exclude this possibility as repeated brain magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) studies have resulted in normal. It would help if you discussed the matter with your doctor on the above tests. Hope you will find this answer helpful.