Neck pain, dizziness, light-headed...help!

How are you doing now? I have the same symptoms. It has been over three months for me. It really ruins your life.

Hi all,

I am new to this forum, I find this specific conversation very relevant to my symptoms and thought of writing.

Everything for me started 6 months ago with weird muscle spasm / twitching, my doctor said it could be a pinched nerve in my neck with influence in the whole body,  so I started to see a chiropractor. Spasms/twitching got better but then the dizziness started...For the last 5 months I've been feeling awful: like if I were on a boat the whole time (or, actually, like if I did just got off a boat), I didn't have neck pain in the beginning of my symptoms but eventually 4 months ago I started to feel my neck and upper shoulders very stiff,and from then on I feel neck pain and stiffness practically everyday, with associated sensation of "pressure" in the back of my lower head. 

Additionally I have some sort of maybe related sleep disorder: I would wake up because of muscle spasms, and involuntary movements especially in the moments when I am about to get asleep, as if my body would want to wake me up

I've done:

- blood tests (they are perfect)

- brain MRI (it is normal)

- visit to neurologist (everything normal).

I am on Valium (2 mg a day) for the last 3 months as my doctor thinks everything is related to stress and anxiety. I have indeed high level of stress due to my profession but I don't feel like an anxious person at all...

If I don't take Valium though, my symptoms get incredibly worse and the dizziness is totally debilitating.

Any comment, similar experience, or suggestions of what I can do to have a proper diagnosis or about anything else I could try would be much appreciated! THANKS!

(ps: English is my second language so apologies for any inconsistencies!!)

Hi tiny

I woke up 6yrs ago feeling so sick and dizzy.. Was being sick about 10 times a day I thought I was dying. Went doc he said it was labyrinthtitus.. Went ears nose and throat clinic all came back clear.. Had loads of other tests and went for a ct scan all came back clear.. Lost count how mm any times I'd been doc's.. He would always say you gotta live with it parmed me off with loads of pills.. Which didn't help.. But to this day I still feel the pain it right at the top of my neck and along my shoulders and i find it hard to walk sometimes as o feel like I'm gonna fall over.. But there seems to be no diagnosis been told I've gotta live with it.. But it's hard when you got children as it stops me from doing thing's... I do feel your pain

I'm going thru same thing I can barley get around walking is difficult for me I no longer drive I'm dizzy 24/7 always lightheaded I was hit by a car n currently getting therapy for my neck but still unable to function n live normal life very difficult I have constant headaches as well

Look into BPPV (Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo). I'm not sure why you had neck pain to begin with. If you had an impact or event causing the pain, you could have caused the BPPV at the same time. If you turn your head at certain angles or your body is in a certain position, does your dizziness ever get worse or do your eyes react oddly? If so, it is potentially BPPV. Look into a vestibular specialist and the Eppley maneuver. It should be able to help you. Best of luck.

Hi Tiny2020,

Just wondering have you improved from neck pain and dizziness? y

Hi Tiny2010

I know this was a few years ago but this sound like everything I am dealing with right now. Have you overcome the dizziness?

I have been feeling the same from the past month and a half. It all started one day when I was feeling very weak and had severe headache so I went to my physician and he said that my blood pressure had risen because of which I was feeling like this. So I continued with it then the feeling of dizziness started and I kept feeling like I'm imbalanced and like my body was unstable. After three weeks after I complained about breathlessness and chest pain my doctor asked me to get the blood tests and cholesterol tests done and it showed I had high cholesterol. Now I've taken cholesterol pills and vitamins pills for three weeks but the dizziness and stiff neck feeling has not yet gone. I don't understand what is wrong with me I just want to get back to normal and feel the way I used to be before this disease. I just feel very left out at times. I don't understand conversations and feel spaced out. It's hard to concentrate on work as u have this thing going on in ur head and my vision also does not feel normal.

Can somebody help me out with this please

You could try looking into your SCM muscle. It's in your neck. Google SCM muscle issues and trigger points.

What did you find out since your post 3 years ago? I have same symptoms. 

Another thing is the human body was designed to fast at least once a week if not two days in a row. This reduces imflamation and resets the blood. Ten thousand years ago we hunted for our food and it never came every day.