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Constant Dizziness for 5 weeks now!

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Hello all,

I have been suffering from constant dizziness for 5 weeks now. 

It started off as vertigo for the first week or so, a constant feeling on spinning around or the room spinning around me.

Then after the first week it has changed to just a dizzy feeling, like my brain and my eyes aren’t working together, my brain is taking a while to catch up! I also developed a very heavy feeling in my legs, it’s feels like my strength is only at 50% or like gravity is weighing on me more than normal.

When I’m lying down I feel my body is being pushed into the bed, I know this sounds so weird but it’s hard to explain.

I went to my GP, he says it was probably just an ear infection and the dizziness will clear up in a matter of weeks. I have not really had any ear infections that I was aware of, can you get them and not know?

I am an anxious person by nature so the lack of any real explanation bothers me. My mind runs away with me..like maybe it’s MS or a brain tumor or something terrible like that! 

I can get referred to see an ENT but it will be 9 months waiting as I can’t afford to go privately. 

Any advice?

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  • alan94308
    alan94308 Guest

    Posted

    Hi,

    Mine is like a swaying boat like feeling in head and heavy light weight when walking on cotton ground

    I suspect is anxiety or PPPD PERSISTENT POSTURAL-PERCEPTUAL DIZZINESS

    https://vestibular.org/pppd

    Alan 

    • Guest
      Guest alan94308

      Posted

      Would you have nystagmus with this? My GP says I have slight nystagmus when I look to the left 
    • alan94308
      alan94308 Guest

      Posted

      Hi,

      No i do not

      One thing in common about us in notice in this forum for such, we are anxiety and panicky person by nature 

      By the way, i am from Singapore

      Alan 

  • pattino
    pattino Guest

    Posted

    I suggest you eat an elimination diet for 2 weeks to see if your symptoms change or disappear , stop alcohol altogether and do a complete heart check at a cardiologist ,

    also did you have panic attacks before?

    • Guest
      Guest pattino

      Posted

      HI there, thanks for your suggestion. I don’t drink alcohol and have had an ECG done, heart is fine. Have suffered panic attacks in the past but none lately. Think maybe anxiety is playing a role here though.
  • pattino
    pattino Guest

    Posted

    9 months waiting for a doctor appointment is absurd , why this long wait ?
    • matt57085
      matt57085 pattino

      Posted

      At a guess i would say they OP is in the UK. I've been waiting to see a Neurologist for nearly 7 months and still waiting.

    • pattino
      pattino matt57085

      Posted

      How expensive would it be if you pay a doctor privately , out of pocket where you are ?

      Here in NY you can go to good doctors in chinatown ,they see you same day and pay $ 70 to $ 160 , depending on the specialty

    • Guest
      Guest pattino

      Posted

      That’s the public system waiting list 
    • Guest
      Guest matt57085

      Posted

      I’m in Ireland so similar to the UK I imagine, long waiting lists for public patients 
    • Guest
      Guest pattino

      Posted

      I am going to have a private MRI done in a few days. It will cost around €220 maybe more but the dr reckons it will ease my mind that there’s nothing more serious wrong. I suffer from anxiety so I’m worried about being sick.
    • matt57085
      matt57085 pattino

      Posted

      Anywhere from £250 to £400. The thing is that's just for a consultation the any test etc cost thousands.

      I refuse to pay private as we pay high taxes in the UK and a large part goes to funding the NHS.

      With such high living costs over here many people just can't afford it👎

    • pattino
      pattino matt57085

      Posted

      Hi Matt , sorry to hear the absurdity of prices there , in NY chinatown I had in the past done Dr Visits , tests and scans for reasonable prices and very quickly , I wish it was the same there . I know that in Croatia , Bosnia and the nearby countries a lot of Italians go there for medical and dental care at 1/3 of the price and quickly , they say it's very professionaly done , consider that.

      I also have a history of anxyety , panic attacks and more ,it can give you a lot of fake symptoms that mimic real serious diseases ,and then after all the tests I found out I'm healthy and I don't have those diseases ,eventually the symptoms go away , it happened to me so many times , now I learned to manage stress ,panic attacks, vertigo etc... and I feel better

  • chris39583
    chris39583 Guest

    Posted

    Trust me I know the feeling. I dealt with this on and off for 8 years. It is def. Coming from your ear. I am going to write my story here soon but I just signed up and saw your post so I can tell you how to fix it. Long story short if you feel pain around your ear that you keep massaging wont go away its a sinus infection. Go to a quickie type doctor tell them all the symptoms of a sinus infection to get antiobotics. Sometimes sinus infections can take a long time to show all the symptoms. You should feel like a normal person soon.
  • Smitty89
    Smitty89 Guest

    Posted

    Hello I was diagnosed with labrynthiits and nystagmus back in march from a sinus cold i previousy had.

    I went to and ENT and he told me that he didn't know what it was and it wasnt labs..my eyes have t been the same since. I've just been referred to a dizzy clinic because nobody can seem to figure it out. Pppd sounds like exactly what I have. But it's very unheard of by docs right now because it was just added in the WHO in 2016...

    Donyoy feel better in the car or when moving? I dont...grocery stores throw me off also.

    • alan94308
      alan94308 Smitty89

      Posted

      Hi,

      I feel better in the car and bus

      Seems like Pppd, but not sure Singapore doctor know about this problem 

      Mine is like a swaying boat like feeling in head and heavy light weight when walking on cotton ground

      Are you a person of anxiety and panic by nature

       

       

    • Smitty89
      Smitty89 alan94308

      Posted

      People with pppd don't feel better in the car. Actually feel worse.

      Yours sounds like mal de barqment syndrome ...look that up and see if the symptoms are the same you have.

    • alan94308
      alan94308 Smitty89

      Posted

      For mal de barqment, I have not been on any cruise or airplane lately, i just woke up one morning and got the sensation, it got worse over time with anxiety

      If i never read wrongly, PPPD also feel better if in car

       

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