Lightheadedness.....
Posted , 9 users are following.
Hi I'm Steve, 32.I'm not sure I'm posting in the right area but I'm really hoping some one may have a inkling as to what's going on... Mid December I was driving down the road and all of a sudden I got tingles down my arms and legs and my heart rate shot through the roof. I managed to drive myself to the hospital thinking I was having heart attack. I had all the usual routine checks and was told it was a panic attack.... Went to see a Dr the day after as I still felt awfully lightheaded with pains everywhere. Again I was told it was a panic attack, take some proponolol and it will all go away... After taking them for a few days I was rushed back to hospital as they had made me look like a zombie... I was in bed for 6 weeks due to this horrible lightheadedness, I kept going to the Dr's to be told I'm stressed, depressed, and its anxiety. I'm not stressed, nor am I depressed, nor am I an anxious person. I went to see a mental health nurse who said that I wasn't depressed or anxious in any way and to go back to my Dr. After 6 weeks in bed I was still lightheaded with pains all over..... We are now 4 months on... I'm still lightheaded, mostly feeling like I'm going to pass out ( although I never have actually passed out) Im getting alot of headaches, pains in and around my ears and have qiuet bad tinnitus from it all. Loud noises all of a sudden make my ears crackle. I've now been off work 4 months as I drive children for a living and don't like the idea of driving while lightheaded. Dr's are taking no interest at all, I've paid to go private for a brain and auditory mri scan next week ( which I'm 99% certain is going to come back all clear but it's another thing I can tick off the possibilities) I also have a cardiologist appointment ( which I had to really push for through the NHS in 3 weeks) My blood & oxygen pressures have been fine. I was given sertraline, that just made things worse, they then told me to try duloxetine, that has stopped some of the chest pains I was having but done nothing else.
I was prepared for any outcome of this even if it was a depression I didn't know I was having or anxiety. But 4 months on and I'm still not right.
Does any 1 have any sort of info on this or has had any of the same symptoms? Please do get in touch. Every little helps. Thanks all.
0 likes, 37 replies
steve03579
Posted
Good evening everyone. I thought I'd come back and update you all to try and possibly help anyone out who's still suffering. So we are exactly 1 year on to the date from when this all started, The light headedness lifted, heart rates dropped back to normal day and night all the strange sensations have seem to have disappeared, apart from some chest pains that seem to be in my muscles more than heart. I'm now putting this down to very poor posture. 1 thing all this has left me with is a constant buzzing in my ears. I finally went to see an ENT this week. And he has explained to me exactly what has caused all my head aches, Ear aches, the tinnitus,Jaw aches ect. Its called THE TENSOR TYPANI SYNDROME. Its caused by our body's going into shock from bad trauma or to much anxiety. All the muscles in your back and neck cause most of this as they lock up with anxiety, Stress, Trauma. They then cause all your pains, headaches, Earache, tinnitus from your neck uowards.
We under estimate posture massively and it can cause major pains, feelings and discomfort throughout the body. And once the body has gone into shock, it then takes many months for it to recover from it.
Please message me of I can help in any way if anyone is still suffering from lightheadedness or any of the sensations mentioned in my post
Above. Time has been a true healer with all this. I'm still not 100% back to myself, but I've learnt a lot about all this sort of stuff.