I'm very concerned about my 17 year old daughter. Recently she has been experiencing kind of a dizzy feeling, and feeling like she's leaning to the left.It doesn't happen every day ..... It's like every 2 or 3 days. She's been experiencing it for about 3 weeks now. Also, it doesn't matter of the body position ..... two times sitting and two times standing. The last time, she was sitting in one of her classes at school.....She said it really scared her to the point where she almost started crying. The episodes only last from maybe 30 seconds to 1 - 1 1/2 minutes.

Her past medical history is:

* Severe headaches since she's been 4 years old. They did a CT Scan and MRI many years ago, but it was normal. Her doctors felt that maybe her headaches were migraines.....However, she never experienced other symptoms associated with migraines, such as, halos. She does vomit sometimes though. They gave her presciption meds, because instead she (we) have controlled her headaches for 13 years with OTC meds (Advil, Tylenol, etc.). She does continue to get severe occasional headaches though.

* She had numerous sinus infections for years. Approx. 4-5 years ago she had surgery to drain her sinuses. Since then, she occasionally gets congested, but nothing severe like before. She said she isn't congested right now (with the leaning feeling).

* This past year she has became very dizzy and basically fainted to the ground 2 times. She has been dizzy multiple other times without fainting also. Her doctor thought maybe she wasn't eating right which was causing her dizziness .... But, actually she has always eaten pretty well....Pretty well-balanced. Her blood tests were all "normal".

My daughter doesn't complain about aches and pains, not even when she has broken a bone, or anything like that .... She's a tough person that even competed high-level gymnastics with torn ankle tendons and shin splints ...... So when she tells me something isn't right, I LISTEN!! And for it to scare her to the point of crying, something is seriously going on and it's truly worrying me.

* Also, one more thing ..... My daughter's aunt (on her dad's side) had an aneurysim when she was 20 eyars old. She died. I've heard conflicting info as to whether aneurysisms are hereditary or not.

So, should I be frantic concerned about this "leaning" feeling? Do you have any idea what could cause this feeling?

Thanks for your help!!!