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Dizzy for 3 long months!

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Marialovessun
Marialovessun

Hi everyone. I am new on this site and have been suffering from dizziness and being lightheaded for over 3 months. I have stopped doing so much because I never know how I am going to feel day to day. It has ruined my life. My friends and family support me but don't understand how horrible this is. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.

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  • rocksolid
    rocksolid Marialovessun

    Posted

    Look into Verticle Heterphoria, it's an eye condition and it can hacppen after a car accident or a whip lash type of thing occouring.
  • delfino40845
    delfino40845 Marialovessun

    Posted

    Hello Maria,

    I been feeling dizzy and lightheaded for 7 months, please describe your symptoms a little better, as I have other symptoms as well, perhaps we are dealing with the same problem,

    I have done lots of testing, but no luck yet, but I feel like the list it's becoming smaller and I am getting closer to find the answer, please reply, let fight this together.

    Take care.

    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun delfino40845

      Posted

      First of all being light headed and dizzy is horrible. It is scary too. Three months ago I was in my kitchen and I fainted. I woke up to 3 paramedics taking care of me. My heart rate 176 beats a minutes. I spent 3 days in the hospital. On a new medicine that is to up my blood pressure. I have been taking metatroplol for years for a fast heart beat and have never had a problem. I came home from the hospital and I have never had a problem. I quit taking the medicine for to up my blood pressure because I lost my legs twice. I actually had no feeling from my hips down. So now I take 4 salt tablets a day to up my blood pressure. I also do leg strengthening exercises. I still feel dizzy and light headed. My primary doctor doesn't think it is related toy heart so she had me get an MRI, see an ENT doctor and a neurologist. MRI came back good. ENT said it has nothing to do withy ears and the neurologist says it is migraines and wants to give me medicine for that. I refused the medicine because I don't believe it. Less medicine the better. So I got on this site two days ago and now I am going to a physical therapist. Just started yesterday and I am going in again today. She had me look left, right, up and down. It made me severely dizzy. I had to put my head in my hands and wait to talk to her. Putting my head up caused the most dizziness. She think that the vertabrea in my neck is pushing on something that is causing me to be light headed and dizzy. I hope she is right because I am ready to be done with being unstable. My neck hurts too. I was rear ended May 18th and it has made the dizziness and being light headed worse. Because I feel like that I refuse to take the vicodon my doctor gave me for pain. Well that was a lot. I am so sorry you have been dizzy for 7 months!
    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun delfino40845

      Posted

      delfino

      So what happened to you? How did the dizziness and the light headed feeling start? Has it got any better since it started? Do you have any suggestions on relieving the symptoms?

    • melody08508
      melody08508 Marialovessun

      Posted

      Hey again! Maybe the accident dislodged something. I highly recommend a good chiropractor! I think I said it before but honestly it's helped me immensely even after just 4 visits. They will be able to tell u if ur neck is out of alignment. Also when ur dizzy u hold urself in an awkward way so ur neck gets tense. My chiro gave me a sheet of info and it says certain nerves in ur spine affect certain things. I think it was my C1 and C2 that were out and that's linked to dizziness and headaches!! Please look into it as it's helped me a lot :-)
    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun melody08508

      Posted

      Wow I will thank you! I will look into it. After we were rear ended six days ago my dizziness has been so much worse. It is pretty much constant.
    • melody08508
      melody08508 Marialovessun

      Posted

      Definitely do. It's amazing the different nerves in ur spine affect different things in ur body. I bet it will help :-)
  • lisa31160
    lisa31160 Marialovessun

    Posted

    Hi Maria,

    Has anyone talked about referring you to a cardiologist just to make sure everything is ok? I'm kinda of surprised the hospital didn't have a referral for you to see one. It might be worth looking into, wouldn't hurt. It sounds like it could be a cardiac issue to or maybe even something to do with your carotid  arteries. I'm guessing you're fairly young so the doctors don't want to send you to one. 

    • Marialovessun
      Marialovessun lisa31160

      Posted

      I am 36 and I do have a cardiologist. She gives me metatroplol for a fast heart rate. I have to take the medicine. I am going to read about what you suggested. Thank you very much!
  • lisa31160
    lisa31160 Marialovessun

    Posted

    You're welcome. I hope you can find answers. A carotid uktrasound might be a start??
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