Dear Cyndy, The issue of imbalance comes back to my mind. At the beginning, the patients complaint: I feel dizzy, unsteady, as if I were going to fall, I feel faintified. Fainting. Petit mal epilepsy. Nausea. insufficient perfusion of the brain as from low blood pressure, hemorrhage, bradycardia or cardic arrhythmia; intoxication, of which alcohol is the most common, carbon monoxide, barbiturates, narcotics as distinct from true vertigo