people that are/were lightheaded 24/7

[violents0ciety1]

this thread is for people that used to and still are lightheaded all of time, everyday. i have this lightheaded feeling where i feel like im floating and everything aroud me just feels so unreal. i really need help. did anyone have this and get rid of it? what can i do to help myself? is their anything over the counter that helps? thanks

[manmoor]

Hi Vio,

Ive had the lightheadedness before for weeks at a time it will pass. Ive found that when I forget its there it usually goes. Its just one of the many symptoms I get with my anxiety.

Hope you feel better soon

Take Care

Mandy

xx

[PurpleRain]

Hi,
I used to have the lightheaded feeling alot!! It would last for weeks at a time aswell. I do still experience it occasionally but i find with regualar relaxation (tapes,cd's etc) i dont suffer with it so much, it helps release the tension build up and relax my breathing!

The heat at the moment probably isnt helping!

Take care xx

[nomorepanic]

i had it for many years

Diet, exercise and breathing cured mine

Nicola

[arethaire]

Hi do you often feel faint & or sick with it?

I had lightheadedness constantly through out the day, yet I would be fine whilst sleeping.
I had all sorts of tests & they found nothing, so put it down to panic/anxiety. I was given antidepressants (3yrs ago) for this & it did eventually go. But now I have it back again, not quite so constantly though.

I hope you are feeling a little better .... Take care ~ Cath x

[violents0ciety1]

yes i feel faint a lot and sick, mostly when i think about it a lot. when i think about it, i dont feel faint, but i feel lightheaded very badly. i describe it like i feel like everything feels so unreal and weird and almost like im slighly less concious than i should be. its kinda scary and it makes it hard to fall asleep a lot. i just makes everything seem impossible to do. ive went to doctors and taken tests and they say it has to be anxiety. i might go on antidepressants. which atidepressant did you go on? did it make your lightheaded symptom go away? if it did, how long did it take for it to go?

[arethaire]

Hi again ....

Yes I know exactly what your going through, it does make things impossible to do. I have been quite lightheaded for most of today & I was going to do so much around the house, but of course I couldn't. It really gets you down : (

The first antidepressant I took was Seroxat (paroxetine) I gave it a few weeks to 'kick in' & yes it did rid me of the lightheadedness.
I did change to Prozac (fluoxetine) after a while because I thought the weight I had gained was from the seroxat.

Cath x

[nomorepanic]

anti-depressants did not make mine go away atall.

lifestyle changes did though

Nicola

[Humly]

I was feeling constantly light headed for about 6 months and it was defintely worrying about it that made it worse and last for so long. I was always thinking in the back of my mind that it must be something serious like a brain tumour and I ended up having various tests which were all fine. As soon as I stopped worrying/thinking about it, the light headed feeling disappeared. To be honest, I started worrying about something else so it got my mind off the dizziness! I do get it from time to time now but I just ignore it and it goes away. Its all just down to anxiety.

So my only advice is to try not to think about it, which I know is sometimes impossible to do, but if you start distracting yourself with other things it may just go.

Hope you feel better.

LT x