Dizziness - So Frustrating? Help Please...

[SamJay]

Hi, I've read a few things about dizziness on the forums but still can't get my head around it. Today is a particularly bad day where it's constant (as it is always) but seems even worse than usual. I feel like I can't concentrate and that is must be something more than anxiety?
As said before, I've had an MRI, EKG and a few blood tests but feel I should have more tests...what else could it be?
Does anyone have any particular advice to help me please? Is any medication specifically good for relieving this horrible feeling? I can't accept that this is how I will feel from now on, it's driving me crazy and no one seems to really understand, how would they really?...I'm glad they don't, I wouldn't wish this on anyone.
Please...any advice is appreciated...I keep waking up each day wondering if I'll feel ok...but it's always the same.
:(

[yorkylover]

Anxiety can make you dizzy.Worry will make it worse.:(Are you any meds?

Ellen XX

[SamJay]

Hi,
No, I'm not on any meds...so I can't blame them for it... If there was a med I could take to get rid of it tho', I would.
Has anyone taken a beta-blocker for dizziness and if so, did it work?
Thanks...
x

[honeybee3939]

Hi Sam,

Its certainly Anxiety related Hun,

I used to have this 24/7 for 2 years, i was convinced i had a brain tumour or something awful. I still get it now but not as much, i tend to find when i am stressed the dizzyness comes back, breathing exersices do help and also tying to distract myself from my thoughts help,
Maybe it would be worthwhile to visit your gp and explain how you feel, he may be able to suggest some medication that may help.

Here are some posts that may help too:

Spaced out/ dizzy
Spaciness (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2696)
Light Headed (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2951)
dizzyness (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3062)
Jules31 (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=310)
Light Headed (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=2951)
Very dizzy (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3743)
help :( (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3742)
vertigo, diziness (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4877)

Relaxation
fear of relaxing (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=3762)
Visualisation Technique? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=414)
Relaxation.. Questions? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5396)

Breathing technique
How Do You Do The Breathing (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4042)
Breathing.. wow (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4037)
Breathing Techniques (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=4044)
CONTROLLED BREATHING (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5041)
Working to get better, have a few Q's to ask... (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=5412)
Insatiable Mouth / Chest Breather???? (http://www.nomorepanic.co.uk/showthread.php?t=7113)

Love

Andrea
xxxx





"If you have a worry turn it into a problem, you cant solve worrys but you can solve problems"

[looking4answers]

Im sure is anxiety too..I just woke up and was relaxing and its very cold here and this place is weird..It makes you sweat if your body is warm and the room is cold which to me is a weird feeling..and i got a little nervous about that.. then I settled down and had to relax finally I relaxed and then my wife got an email from her sister about our daugther and it was very upsetting..I got up to do somethings and got dizzy and lightheaded..It was caused by anxiety..the more I tried to ignore it the greater it became..so yes I think that you can mark it off to anxiety.i was having a pretty nice day or was about to and anxiety starts making you miserable and wierd..So I have to push on try to relax and hope that it disappears,but im betting you have the same issues..stress and its causing you to feel that way...

[rmlamatt]

Hi Sam,
The first thing I would try is, get a blood pressure cuff and check your B/P when this dizzyness happens.

This may sound stupid but, when you're dizzy does the room spin, or do you spin?

I've had Vertigo since I was twenty years old, now I'm sixty-four and still get it from time to time. Light sometimes and other times very dizzy, so bad that I can't stand up or even sit up. I wound up in the hospital back in 2003 for three days, doctors giving all sorts of tests and looking for a TIA, stroke. Three days later was sent home with Valium, can't take Antivert, throws the heart beat off. They told me it was Vertigo. It lasted for months off and on. I've found the weather plays a part in it. Especially when there is a front coming. I live in Florida and needless to say there are lots of fronts.

My suggestion would be to see and ear, nose and throat doc. You may have a small piece of ear wax causing the problem. Also some doctors have claimed there are small tiny like balls (marbles) and they go out of alignment in the ear canal. By using a magnet or rotating a chair they can get these "balls" in place again. I'm not sure about this because I've never tried it. I do know that like you when I become nervous and have my jaw clinched my neck stiff, the dizziness seems to come on more often then not. I've tried chewing gum, especially when I'm at the computer, which is most of the day. Being a writer I find my jaws clinched most of the time.

Hope this helps.
Rose


Don't walk in front of me I may not follow.
Don't walk behind me I may not lead.
Just walk beside me and be my friend

[SamJay]

Hi Everyone,
Thanks so much for your replies & support, it makes such a difference. x
To answer your question Rose, I went to an ear, nose & throat specialist about a month ago...I was convinced it was my ears, so much so that I thought that would be it, problem would be solved and it would be over and done with. I had the vertigo test done, ears checked and all is fine, which is good, I know but frustrating also in a strange way as at least if it was an ear thing...it could have been fixed.
That's when they referred me to a neurologist and she then recommended me to have a brain scan which was fine too and I'm so grateful for that!
I live in a hot & humid climate too (in Asia)...so perhaps that's something to do with it as well. I'll be going back to the UK at Christmas for a few weeks so will see if the cold, brrr! will make any difference.
Also going to see my local GP while I'm back to get a second opinion on everything as he's been my Dr. now for 20 years and will probably listen more!
Aside from that, I shall take Andrea's advice re: breathing techniques as I know my breathing is completely 'out the window'...almost like I've forgotten how to breathe properly, how ridiculous!
Right...I shall stop rambling on...
Thanks again for the support and advice.
Best wishes to you all. x