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Feel dizzy and my arms and back keeps tingling, and my muscles feel like lead..

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hxlcyon
hxlcyon

I'm on the verge of tears because of this. For the last few days I've had constant dizziness; not just when standing up or moving etc, but sometimes when I am laid down, I suddenly get the typical, world is spinning sensation. When I'm walking, if I turn my head, it feels like my eyes 'lag' almost and it makes me feel dizzy and naeseous. 

On top of feeling dizzy, my muscles feel weak and like lead. I had to use the elevator in school today because the stairs were too much, and even just walking to the back of the bus felt like too much energy physically. I feel weak and unstable in general, when I'm walking I try and keep a hold of a railing or at least walk near a wall. If I don't, I feel like I will trip easily or loose my balance. 

And I keep on getting tingling sensations in my arms and back. It comes on randomly, but it appears in my back when I move my neck up or down or stretch it. My arms.. I stood with my arms crossed over my chest for less than a minute before one of them started feeling tigling and numb- like when you sleep on it all night and wake up with pins and needles type thing. 

I have general aches and pains - have done for a while now. Because it's so widespread and random, I have trouble getting doctors to believe I do actually hurt. Some days it feels like I honestly cannot walk (because I'll collapse or fall over etc), and I almost asked for a wheelchair when my family went on a trip to the zoo. 

It's most frustrating because just now I was trying to get an essay written for my class, but I started feeling dizzy and had to lie down and it's still not gone away properly. And my arms are tingling even now. 

I have no idea what any of this could be linked to? Does anyone have any ideas?

I have a doctors appointment in a couple of weeks, but I'd be interested to hear other peoples' experiences of this sort of thing first. 

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  • rita52071
    rita52071 hxlcyon

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    Wow a couple of weeks.  Where do you live?   You need to see a neuro ent.   I would make appt now because it’s usually a couple of months of a wait.  See if you can get in to see you dr sooner.   Good luck.  From what you are saying this will pass.  It takes time.  
    • hxlcyon
      hxlcyon rita52071

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      I live in the UK. I have no idea how I would go about getting an appointment with a neurologist and as far as I know, the only way I can get an earlier appointment with my doctor is if I say its an emergency/urgent.. which, sure it's giving me hell but in the doctor's eyes, I don't think they'd see it as an emergency/urgent. 

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