Symptoms of vertebral artery insufficiency, 4 common manifestations

In many cases, insufficient blood supply to the vertebral artery is caused by cervical disc herniation. The most typical symptom is dizziness, which is common among middle-aged and elderly people. If you experience symptoms of dizziness and headache, you must go to the hospital for examination and treatment in time.

1. Vestibular system symptoms: Dizziness is a common symptom, mostly rotational vertigo. Vertigo attacks often reach a peak within 2-5 minutes and last for 2-15 minutes. They are often accompanied by ataxia, but usually without tinnitus or hearing loss.

2. Visual symptoms due to brainstem and cerebral ischemia can cause blurred vision, diplopia, monocular and binocular ipsilateral visual field defects, blackouts, and even blindness.

3. Brain symptoms: Headache is a common symptom, which is throbbing pain, sometimes bursting pain, mostly located in the occipital region, aggravated by bending over or holding the breath, and is often accompanied by mental retardation, fainting or falling, dyssynapsis, slurred speech, memory loss, etc.

4. Pyramidal tract symptoms include numbness of the face and limbs, abnormal sensation, etc.

Warm reminder: Many friends who suffer from vertebral artery insufficiency mistakenly believe that there is a problem with their cardiovascular or nervous system, and often go to the cardiovascular or neurology department for treatment. In fact, when you have symptoms such as frequent dizziness and headaches, you should go to the hospital for a detailed examination and diagnosis to confirm the condition, and the doctor will take appropriate treatment measures. For diseases such as vertebral basilar artery insufficiency, many Chinese and Western medicines that can dilate blood vessels seem to be effective, but in fact they have little effect and also have some side effects. The correct treatment should be targeted at the cause of the disease, starting from the cervical spine, and curing cervical protrusion or hypertrophy from the source. When these symptoms are cured, the compressed blood vessels will naturally become unobstructed, and the insufficient blood supply to the vertebral arteries will naturally heal.