Everyday dizziness while walking, standing and feeling unbalanced on my feet.
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I have dizziness everyday while walking, standing as well as feeling off balance, unsteady on my feet like I am gonna fall over. I have had my ears checked by an ENT doctor in 2014 and he said I had menieres disease so he treated it as that but medicine didn't help so went to another ENT doctor in 2015 who said I don't have menieres disease but have hearing loss in both ears and did a test on my vestibular function which he said was normal so he referred me to a neurologist and I went and had an MRI done which was normal as well. I have had blood work done in November last year and my white blood count was a little high but not concerning and everything else was normal....no diabetes. Also had a stress test done on heart and was normal. I am at my wits end with this cause I don't know what's going on. I plan to see an eye doctor soon. Oh and I was diagnosed with anxiety 4 months ago but this dizziness and off balance feeling has been going on for 2 years now. I am on blood pressure medicine too. don't know what else to do. Does anyone have these same symptons ?
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hemant.kumr michelemuffin
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I am having same problem last 8 months. Eight month ago, i was feeling like this dizziness and consulted to doctor. Whereas doctor confirmes that this is vertigo problem and you should consult to vertigo doctor. After consultation of dr suggested me some excercise and given vertisure or maybe vertini table for instance result to dissolve this dizziness. Now eight month later i am having same concern as you mentioned above in your postes.
Please suggest me what to do now.
kesavaraman michelemuffin
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jimk michelemuffin
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I have had the same symptoms for 2.5 years now. It started very suddenly one afternoon when I rose from my chair at work. I've seen 3 doctors, had blood tests, and physical therapy, nothing has worked. I've been taking blood pressure medicine for many years but about 6 years ago I changed health plans and they switched me from Quinapril to Lisinopril 20mg. About 6 months ago I read that Lisinopril can cause dizziness, so the doctor agreed to switch me to a different type. The new type (forget the name now, but not Quinapril) didn't lower my pressure as well, and seemed to be causing headaches, and dysequilibrium was about the same, so after 3 weeks I got permission to go back to Lisinopril 20mG. I have had tinnitus for many years, and do have hearing loss, but not atypical for my age (74). For the last year I have had sore neck muscles on one side, which goes away at times but is there for at least part of every day. It feels kind of like the soreness is related to the dysequilibriium, but I can't be sure. The worst kind of activity for me is walking and turning the head from side to side. One thing I read about is that experiments at Mayo Clinic showed that when there is damage to the vestibular system, the brain usually learns to re-calibrate, ending the disfunction, but in people with anxiety disorders, the brain fails to re-calibrate, and the dysequilibrium persists. (Could it be that worrying about dizziness causes dizziness?) I don't have anxiety per se, but I think I do tend to worry a little more than most people. I agree with the many who have commented here -- this condition weighs heavily on a person, and one generally has to deal with it alone.
john87312 michelemuffin
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Am a new respondent and have read through the many replies and problems regarding Dizziness suffering, which am also a sufferer! It appears that the root of the problem is (a) Lack of blood flow to the brain (b) Pressure on the inner ear (c) a irregular communication between the eye and the ear causing an imbalance! Apparently there are various exercises that one can do that does help and cure Dizziness? Does anyone have these exercises and do they help and/or cure? I saw my local GP yesterday having had Blood tests and prior a MRI Scan that were all clear! My Doctor told me to exercise regular and give my brain something to work on and stop the brain from going rusty! I do truly feel healthy I eat well although I do have some sleepless nights but I don't suffer with any anxiety as some unfortunate people do! I think in some respects our condition can be relieved by exercising mind over matter and carry out these specific ear eye and throat exercises! All the best John H
Kayusa john87312
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Hi John
i have a new diagnosis which is vestibular neuronitis,probably caused by a virus. I am going to be going to the Rusk Institute in NYC fot least 6 weeks of vestibular therapy twice weekly They will be attempting to retrain my brain. If the vestibular nerve is damaged then it cannot send signals to brain to keep us upright and balanced. I'll be happy to share whatever info I get. I'm starting on May 30 th. Hoping for the best for all of us.
jessica34274 michelemuffin
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Hello I have been having the same issue also it's very frustrating I'm only 28 with 3 kids and have been dealing with this the past 2 years however I do think anxiety plays a role I had a lot of anxiety a few months before my issues started I also have a hypo thyroid disorder and I suffer from terrible migraines I like did recently get glasses which helped but really never had an answer but a few months back I found some excercises on Pinterest which really helped there's one you do like 3 xs a day for a few days and it clears your dizziness up I was ok but my problems come and go usually when something stresses me a lot so that's why I feel anxiety may play into it however I hope we can all find an answer but do try those excersises they really helped and they take maybe 1-2 min tops 😊
antonio247 jessica34274
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thanosGreece michelemuffin
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Hi everyone, I had the same set of episodes in this nasty play. I am 37 male, only issue was Hashimoto's and tinnitus for the last 6 years. Last year I lost my grandpa and cried a lot. One week after, on a Thursday, the world started to spin like hell. 4 hours later I was tired from vomiting etc but otherwise fine. Friday and Saturday where as normal as every other day in my previous life. I don't know how I slept on Saturday night but when I woke up on Sunday, the spin was 3x worse. It took me 1 week to walk without tipping over and another one to be able to be driven to work. I drove after one month but only because I must go somehow to work. Staying focused to a PC monitor got me headaches. ENT sent me to Orthopedic for neck check, X-ray showed nothing. Back to head tilts manuevers and physiotherapy where physiotherapist blames the neck muscles for spasms that messed up with the neck nerves +acupunctures for my anxiety caused by this very situtation. ENT was not so confident about BPV, next eye doctor checks everything and sends me to neurologist who blames first ENT for linking vertigo with the neck. Neuro asks for brain MRI which is clear. Suggests to let it re-calibrate. Second ENT with Vertigo specialization prescribes Flunarizine and after nothing happened we tried cortisone. Nothing there also. Physician with trauma specialization asks for neck MRI to check Cerebellar blood supply. Meeting him in 3 days. Feels like walking in the dark, walking causes so dizziness, getting not enough sleep makes it worse, also when Sinus is full for any reason the symptoms are worse. Above all, the fear that the world will start spinning again feeds the circle.
thanosGreece
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Adding my bit of understanding for cases like mine. Since symptoms started after working in a neck-stressing position (putting and screwing stuff in a 3-feet high rack so I had to bend all the time) and the second attack after a head-down sleep that stressed my neck even more (and longer, for the whole night) I now understand that this somehow caused a pressure at the arteries that feed the back side of the brain (Cerebellum which is responsible for the stability as a general coordinator) like the trauma doctor suggested. Of course the MRI could not get his parameter (blood flow) since I guess it cannot (it's static) and my neck was not stressed at the time of the scan. These neck positions seem to trigger a deffective blood supply that somehow "damages" a little the Cerebellum. A bad night seep that didn't let the area rest has the same effect. Stressing situations also or when I lift the grocery bags! I am now going through a set of physiotherapy sessions in order to strengthen my neck mussles and I also actively retrain my brain. I excercise all the head tilting movements plus I walk and stop abruptly, walking and looking at a 90 degree angle right or left, standing up with my back against the wall as I spin having constant contact with the wall, move my head trying to focus on the same spot for every turn etc. I have to admit that the levels of dizziness have some improvement but I am not there yet. Next (and last) try with doctors will be to check blood supply, if there is such a test. Best wishes for all who suffer from situations like this.
tro thanosGreece
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Hi I would suggest get a different ENT and ask specifically for them to test for Meniers disease. They have meds u can take so you don't lose your hearing too like I did. It started off with room spinning and the vomiting. I could not cook for my kids. In the end I went deaf.
Today, I'm still imbalanced and find a rollater helpful (vestibular issues) if I don't have my rollater I fall frequently if the ground is uneven or I bend over to pick up a stick or leaf. That is when I lose my balance. I also can't do stairs. Sncerely, tro
benedetta74389 thanosGreece
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Hello thanos,
My name is Benedetta and I've been living from the same condition for the last 2 months. It has been affecting my life so badly, I never want to go out and feel like nobody understands me. My symptoms get worse when I am walking, feels like i am walking on an unsteady floor and I feel constatly unbalanced and feel a pressure pushing me down. The only way i do not feel it is going on the bycicle and swimming.. but besides that i frel it even sitting and sometimes laying down. It all started when I was at work in my office, I used to work 9 hours a day in fron of a pc non stop and one day I got a extremely stiff neck and i could not move it for two days then the pain got better but the vertigo stayed and progressively got worse. I had my ears checked and there was an infection but now there is nothing wrong with my ears anymore. Will have an MRI in this week. I am so desperate cause the antivertigo medecines are not working and I have to continue with my life .. I am so scared. I think there was a trauma on my neck after that day and it changed everything since that day. I think that the there has to be a connection with my neck as everythig started from that. I feel that your answer was so similair to mine and I would like to know how you think in this case should improve the situation? Should I start physiotherapy and see how it goes?
luis83395 benedetta74389
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thanosGreece benedetta74389
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Hi Benedetta,
Five months later and still nothing here. The strange thing in your description is the bicycle. I had to ride on a motorcycle (as a passenger) and I have been driving bikes since I was 16 (now I am 37). This was an unpleasant experience, all the road bumps would make my eyes spin. If your case has to do with what they call "retraining your brain" for the different signals that it gets then the excercises that the physiotherapist would suggest (ATTENTION to the ones that he/she will advise, do not be creative on inventing ones that you might think that would help, this was the case with a couple of ones that I thought that were good but the Physio prohibited them as they could cause more damage).
I am more convinced that this is neck-related because my favorite sleeping position was head-down. Now this causes immediate effects so I have to avoid it. Honestly, I got mentaly tired from this chase. I am now seeing a psychotherapist to improve my attitude against stress since this is a factor that also adds up to the rest of the story. When I am back to the mental level that I need, I shall try to get a more detailed test/scan/whatever from an expert (neuro-sergeon ? dont know yet).
You know, eventhough I find it hard to believe since I am a man of rules and numbers, we need to keep ourselves healty in all aspects of our being so when my "soul" resources are low, I need to step back a little and put my pieces together. This forum is a place where seing that I am not alone gives me a moment to catch my breath.
robert78074 benedetta74389
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There are vision problems, however, that produce symptoms you would not immediately connect with your eyes. Headaches and bouts of dizziness may be diagnosed as vertigo or migraine, but is actually a binocular vision dysfunction, like vertical heterophoria (VH).
antonio247 michelemuffin
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Hi everyone! if someone knows how to cure these symptoms, please please help.
I've been feeling dizzy and off balance for 8 months now. Everything started one day of September 2016, I woke up feeling weird like lightheaded, then every day I had some new symptom, tinnitus, pain in my neck, headaches, blurry vision etc.
I had blood work twice and everything came out as normal. I've been with a specialist in balance and they made tests in my both ears and everything was fine, I went to the Ophthalmologist and she said that I only had astigmatism in my left eye. Later I've been visiting the chiropractic (because i read that sometimes the dizzyness may be caused by the missalignment of the Atlas vertebra and realign this vertebra might solve headaches, migraines, vertigos, etc.
long story short I don't feel any improvement
PLEASE HELP!!
P.S excese my english
debbie82116 antonio247
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Your symptoms sound like what I had a few years ago. If I am correct, you are suffering with Labyrinthitis. You must see a physiotherapist that specializes in exercises that will retrain your brain. Where do you live?
antonio247 debbie82116
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Hi Debbie, I live in Houston USA. They made studies based on my to ears they found everything "normal" I just want to be that person that I used to be
debbie82116 antonio247
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barry_65283 antonio247
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I started having the same symptems a few months ago and it has been suggetsed that I may have Labrinthitus or chronic vestibular neuronitis which is the same condition but without hearing loss, I have not hoiwever been referred for an MRI scan yet. The worst thing for me is the floaty feelling.This is making it a real struggle to focus on my job.
barry_65283 debbie82116
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antonio247 debbie82116
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Hi Debbie, I want to thank you, I've been doing some exercises that I found on YouTube about vestibular rehabilitation and I feel much better now, before I felt dizzy and off balance every day, now I only feel imbalance couple of times at day.
God bless you
debbie82116 antonio247
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I'm glad for you Antonio!!! 😀
Any time you feel the dizziness coming back, do the exercises!
Cheers!
Debbie
william382 antonio247
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Hi Antonio,
Have you been diagnosed with anxiety disorder or panic disorder? If all test is normally then that might be panic disorder. Talk to your doctor about panic disorder. I have the same symptom too for more 10 years. 2 years ago I found the answer. Are you a coffee lover? If yes, then it's time to stop drinking coffee. Instead of coffee, try hot chocolate (dark chocolate) and food that contains cheese. Please give me any feedback if my suggestion is ok.
guy18404 antonio247
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I agree with William above. I had the exact same thing. I've literally been to hell and back and seen every doctor and even had an MRI. Happy to report I busted through this after a year of freaking myself out over nothing. At first my ENT said I had labyrinthitis, but I saw a top neurosurgeon at UCLA, who said nope you don't have labyrinthitis. I said, okay what do I have? He said you have anxiety disorder. I demanded an MRI to prove him wrong, but he swore on his life I didn't need an MRI, but my GP said only one way to ease my fears that I might have a tumor, and that is to get the MRI. Just as the neuro said, it came back clean. My symptoms were as follows: I had severe brain fog, I wasn't dizzy in the sense anything was spinning, but my perception was extremely screwed up, my neck was extremely tight (I thought I had meningitis of course), I had tingling in my hands (thought I had MS), lump in my throat, all kinds of stomach problems, and generally just had a terrible time with all kinds of issues. My eyes had significant lag time anytime I looked at anything. I would go on walks and everything seemed surreal, like I was in a dream and walking on a moon bounce. The symptoms came after I had an anxiety attack at my girlfriend's house one night (I had never had one before) and didn't leave when I woke up that morning. Anyway, I finally accepted that it is anxiety, and I saw a psychiatrist who specialized in CBT, and I was diagnosed with panic disorder. He told me about a book (this is not a plug I swear), but its called Don't Panic by Reid Wilson. It was strange, as soon as I started to read the book all my anxiety and panic went away and so did the dizziness and all my symptoms. I guess I didn't know what panic attacks were even though I heard them. Once i realized how many people have this and learned to accept nothing bad is going to happen, and force myself to confront my fears, it all went away. Try that book, see if it helps you like it helped me. But ya, panic disorder/anxiety disorder is no joke and I went to the ER a few times for absolutely no reason. Let me know if it helps! I just wrote here what I learned over the last 1.5 years, hoping I can sling shot you.
asis48059 debbie82116
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Hey there everyone hope everyone is doing great! From 2.5 years I am facing few symptoms :
1) fear from everything
2) off balance
3) dizziness
4) spinning sensation
5) cold sweats again and again
6) stomach issues like gas and diarrhoea
7) tirey feeling
8) heavy head, heavy eyes and stiff back
9) blury vision
10) concentration problem
11) shortness of breath
12) weakness in legs and arms
13) whenever I lie down or stand or even sit I feel my heart skipped a beat and if I don't move I'll die
14) while I am about to sleep there is a sudden jerk also I feel my body is too weak and if I don't move I'll die
15) feel like something's pushing me into bed.
robert78074 antonio247
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There are vision problems, however, that produce symptoms you would not immediately connect with your eyes. Headaches and bouts of dizziness may be diagnosed as vertigo or migraine, but is actually a binocular vision dysfunction, like vertical heterophoria (VH).
suzie412144 antonio247
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Hi ive been told i have to do excersices, do they really work?
antonio247 suzie412144
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they work for me. As I said this year (2019) it's been great I feel much better. I do vestibular excersices for 10 minutes every day.