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Dizziness is doing so much better!

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Marialovessun
Marialovessun

I have been dizzy for over four months. I have been seeing a physical therapist for about three weeks and I am feeling so much better! I go 2 to 3 times a week. I actually have many good days and some were I have felt completely normal. It is such a blessing to be feeling better. If it wasn't for this site I would have never gone to a physical therapist who specializes in neck pain and dizziness.

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  • Marialovessun
    Marialovessun

    Posted

    Also because I have been feeling better I don't have the need to come on this site as much as I used to. I came on here desperate to find answers and for the moral support so to the people who supported me thank you! A kind word can go far. I have actually been suicidal from the dizziness ruining my life. Dizziness so bad you can't get away from it. I pray for everyone who has dizziness you find answers as to why and stay strong.
    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun melody08508

      Posted

      My physical therapist thinks that a vertebrae in my neck was pushing on the nerves in my neck. That can cause dizziness and light headed feeling. If I roll my shoulders I feel it tense in the back of my neck and it causes all my symptoms to come back. Also I get a heavy head feeling and I do exercises to strengthen the main muscle in my neck. I can't remember the name of the muscle. But everything at physical therapy is helping me and I am so thankful.
  • lisa31160
    lisa31160 Marialovessun

    Posted

    Hi! Are you doing VRT and neck massages? Would you mind sharing what exercises you're doing? THanks!
    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun lisa31160

      Posted

      She pushes on the vertebreas in my neck with her fingers and gently pulls my head. My first appointment with her I was so dizzy and I had very little hope she was going to help. She did very little ony first appointment. Now I am doing neck strengthening exercises on my home.
    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun

      Posted

      Correction** exercises on my own at my home smile
  • judyan20
    judyan20 Marialovessun

    Posted

    I am so glad you feel better. I suppose you have been doing gaze stabilization exercises, as I have.

    The do help so much but I would like to be rid of this thing all together.

    I get better

    to a point where I feel almost normal and then it

    comes back, then it

    does it all again.

    I wish an expert could explain why!

    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun judyan20

      Posted

      I don't do gaze exercise. Certain things make my dizziness come back like going to the park and looking at the millions of littles rocks on the ground or I went to a birthday party and the kids had to be spun around for a game and I couldn't watch it. I had to walk away. I don't want my dizziness to come back so if I feel like I have to protect my eyes I do. Also if I get super stressed out I get dizzy. I take half a lorazapam and it goes away. I am getting my life back. I took my boys to the park twice and taking them to ride their bikes. Compared to just sitting all day or being in my bed because I was so dizzy.I love being a mom. It is a big job and trying to be a mom and being dizzy all day is the hardest thing I have ever had to do.
  • karina0608
    karina0608 Marialovessun

    Posted

    Hi maria 

    What were your symptoms when you started getting this dizziness? on top of my neck pain I also suffer from migraines and vertigo. But I have been going to physical therapy for about 4 months but I still feel dizzy. Are you taking medication along as well? 

  • angie_69215
    angie_69215 Marialovessun

    Posted

    Hello Mariasunshine

    What exercises are you doing at home?

    I have had vertigo off and on since November of last year.

    I have days where I feel like I have my life back and I can play with my grandchildren. Then there are the bad days where I feel off balance with a little dizziness and I just want to stay in bed. I do notice that my neck at times pops really loud.

    Very glad that you have found something that works for you. 🌻🌻

    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun angie_69215

      Posted

      Yes me too. I actually went hiking for 3 hours today for the first time in four months. I have a problem with my heart and I went unconscious four months ago and I was in the hospital for three days getting stabilized. I have had to work hard to get to this point. When I left the hospital I left severely dizzy. My cardiologist thinks my low blood pressure caused my dizziness. So I take salt tablets and metatroplol. I worked my legs every single day because I could not stand for 30 seconds. Then I saw a neurologist who thought migraines were causing my dizziness and I refused the medication she wanted to give me. Then I saw a ENT doctor who told me to go back to my cardiologist. Then I found this site and I decided to try a specialist who works with neck pain and dizziness. I have more to write but my dinner is done. Have to feed the kids smile
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