Feels like floor is moving

[cincyman]

I haven't been diagnosed with anxiety... yet. But was curious if anyone who has been diagnosed, do you have these symptoms ? Basically this happens only when I'm walking, or sometimes standing. As I'm walking, I feel a sudden intense feeling as if the floor just dropped an inch. It's almost similar to the feeling you get when on an elevator and it has reached it's destination, and you feel a sudden jerk, down then up. Another way to describe it is like when your walking on a boat dock, and as you step, the floor is wobbly. I don't feel dizzy like the room is spinning, and it happens suddenly, then is gone after a second. It's quite frightening, it almost also feels like my body just stopped working for a split second, and almost like I'm going to faint. It happened this morning when I got out of bed a couple of times, and a few more times as I made my way to work. It's off and on, sometimes I don't feel it all day, other times it can happen many times in a day. I have been having other anxiety symtpoms as well, including mild panic attacks. Is this a symptom of anxiety that any of you have experienced ? Is there anything that helps it ?

[littlemary1234]

I've had 3 episodes of this strange 'landsickness' feeling.  Most recent episode, I was fishing off a dock for several hours, almost a month ago.  I did not fall asleep while on the dock, but I did sit with my eyes closed for several minutes.  
The previous episodes I can contribute to withdraws from Effexor XR (2 previous episodes which lasted about 3 months each time).

some days are better than others.  But i feel as though my body is constantly rocking/swaying forward/backward up/down side to side.  Some days, my head, eyes, and shoulders feel very heavy, as if fatigued.  Some days my head feels very lightheaded, spacey feeling and it is difficult to concentrate (such as today, keep mistyping even)  When I get out of bed in the morning, most mornings, I feel okay, but immediately when I rise, I experience an unbalanced feeling, sometimes to the point of mis-steping and i'll reach out for the wall. I experienced a severe light-sensitive migraine which induced vomiting about a week ago. This vertigo-feeling is a bit different than the Effexor withdraws, only in that I do not have a pulsating-brain-fizzle-feeling, brain zaps? (hard to describe, but VERY real).

[littlemary1234]

WARNING = WHATEVER YOU DO, DO NOT TAKE THE EFFEXOR!!!!!

I WAS ON IT TWICE.  ONCE FOR 6 MO. ANOTHER TIME FOR A YEAR.
THE WITHDRAWALS WILL BE EXTREME VERTIGO ACCOMPANIED BY BRAIN SHAKES/ZAPS, RAPID WEIGHT GAIN DUE TO INSATIABLE HUNGER.

IM SORRY THIS IS IN ALL CAPS, IT WAS NOT INTENTIONAL.

[Merlin28078]

I was diagnosed with vestibular neuritis 2 years ago.  However, it was explained to me that it was transitory and not chronic; i.e. It would pass. I had a sudden attack of severe dizziness and horrible nausea.  I went to the ER because I could not stop throwing up (and I feared a heart attack).  Spent the night in the hospital and after tons of tests- vestibular neuritis.  I had fully recovered in about a week.  However, now I have the symptoms described by others- moving floor etc. ( I will add chronic sinus pressure)  I don't know if this is a left-over from the vest.neur or what.  I'm retired and really have no reason to be anxious but truth be told-  I am a worrier and I am often anxious.  Maybe this is my answer.

[ledzepp84]

Also another way to describe the symptoms is like a congested and scrambling feeling in the back of my head (back right). It feels like "raw" on the inside, hard to explain.

[ledzepp84]

Wow, this is very similar to what I am experiencing. Let me know if anyone else has what I am describing. Basically it started mostly about 2 years ago. I noticed it most when I went on a trip to Foxwoods with some friends. Everything was fine at first but then I got on the elevator and went up 20 floors. I got off the elevator and felt this feeling you all are describing as my body being unsteady and feeling weird, as if I was going to collapse. Well I had to deal with this elevator a couple more times throughout the night and by the end of the night I was exhausted and had a headache and had head pressure. When I went to bed I woke up around 4am with a terrible headache in the back of my head that was much worse when lying down.

I subsequently had this feeling every time I went on an elevator, plane, train, subway, but not really cars. I also have bouts where I have it for no good reason. There is always lingering feeling of it there. It also flares when I am in department stores or waiting in line at starbucks. It is very scary but the thing is that I don't actually "feel" anxious which is why I guess I have always pursued so many tests. Over the past two years I have had:

EEG
MRI/MRA with and without contrast
CT Scan
Cardiac CTA
Holter Monitor
Sleep Study
Stress Test
EKG's
Countless blood tests
Lyme Disease
STD tests
Sinus
Allergies
Colonoscopy/Endoscopy

All of them came back normal. I do have hashimotos thyroiditis but I saw a specialist at Mass General (live in boston area), and he said everything was fine and ranges were great and even did an ultrasound in the office of my thyroid.

I absolutely hate this feeling and it controls my life everyday. Also, when I get these symptoms sometimes I have fleeting tinnitus and almost always I feel some sort of head pressure and aching in the back of my head, mostly back right of my head. Without fail though, while I do have the symptoms generally everyday to some degree, the elevators, trains, planes etc. make it much much worse.

I don't know what to do at this point. I am a 28 year old male and I can't do things because of this and no one seems to have answers. If I go to an event, I don't feel anxious but I definitely have the symptoms. I was at a wedding 2 weekends ago and during the ceremony I felt like I was going to pass out. The feeling was like if your body had an on/off switch, it's like someone turned it off and back on very quickly. Like your body shuts down for a split second. I don't know how it's anxiety without feeling anxious but what other explanation is there? I constantly fear that I am just going to have a stroke or something since it is like a jumbling, split second seizure like feeling. I have seen two neurologists though and they both don't have an explanation. Ugh.....what can I do??

[bejohndoe]

Does anyone feel like there is fuzz on your scalp, kind of like T.V. static, or a light numbess? Sometimes the tip of my nose feels numb too. Are these symptoms related? It feels like my brain is sort of detached; the fuzz is both a metaphor and literal. I can't think clearly.