What is this faint feeling??
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Morning,
Hoping for anyone's help with recent diagnosis. I am told I have vestibular migraines coupled with anxiety. This started with me feeling dizzy at work about a year ago and the feelings have developed across that time to now where I am quite literally at the end of my tether.
For the past year I've felt (not all together but the dizziness and unease feeling of faint seems to remain most of the time, however there are some good weeks):
Dizzy
Lightheaded
Pain around body that moves
Palpitations
Earache
Headaches
Feeling nausea
Odd vibrating feeling in foot and nose
Recent arm pain
Body shaking feeling when I fall asleep or wake up
Blue hands with some tingling
I've had the following tests
Brain Mri - fine
Pelvic mri - picked up fibroid and gallstone so mist have scanned quite high
Balance tests - bad and diagnosed vestibular migraines
Various blood tests all fine apart from slightly raised liver enzyme, told nothing to worry about
Not diabetic, celiac or hepatitis
Had an ecg told normal but heart rate fast
I now have high blood pressure in the past week all of a sudden which I didn't have before
I'm under a consultant for the migraines however I think there's something else going on, Dr says it sounds like anxietys making me think that and that could be causing my high blood pressure and blue hands and arm pain!
I believe anxiety is real unlike some, however I only feel anxious when I get these I'll feeling and then yes of course I think there's something wrong with me, I feel shocking.
I almost need someone's experience to tell me this is actually how anxiety works because all I keep thinking is, what if its easy to say it's anxiety but actually I'm missing something that is getting worse and worse.
For example fell asleep on the sofa last night woke with a bit of a start and shaking body all over then felt like I would pass out for about 10 minutes it then passed and I went to bed. For those 10 minutes I felt like I was goin to drop to the floor and just wanted to run away from it.
Please help
Thanks
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mrsmop gem1971
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Have you been tested for Ménière's Disease?
https://patient.info/doctor/menieres-disease-pro
gem1971 mrsmop
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Hi, when I saw the co sultan and he diagnosed vestibular migraines he said he didn't think it sounded like menieres, my hearing was fine and he did make me lay on a table that tipped up and said my eye movements were all ok, not sure if they are menieres specific tests but it's apparently not that
gem1971
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mrsmop gem1971
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What specialty is your Consultant?
Are you on any drugs & could this be the side effect of one of them?
gem1971 mrsmop
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No nothing at the moment. He's an ent specialist
mrsmop gem1971
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I was just re-reading your post & the episode on the sofa, at the end of the post, sounds like a panic attack, which would come under 'anxiety'.
Do you have any particular stress in your life at the moment?
Anxiety does do strange things to your body.
I also wondered whether an Endocrine Specialist might help but perhaps you should go back to your GP & have another chat with him/her
gem1971 mrsmop
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I'm seeing her again on Monday anyway to follow up on my high blood pressure. She seems convinced it's not my heart and my God do I want to believe her, but I read all sorts about doctors saying it's not heart related and then it turns out to be, I am absolutely terrified
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