Is my dizziness related to my dry eyes?

[funnierthanme63]

For several years I have been experiencing severe dizziness, but it isn't a spinning dizziness.  My dizziness is a rolling dizzy.  I've seen several doctors who seen to shrug the condition off.  One, in fact, said "some people just get dizzy and have to live with it all their lives".  My GP said that because the dizziness rolls, it is my ears and sent me to an ear specialist who said it has nothing to do with my ears at all.  He is now sending me to an opthalmologist.  I know I have dry eyes.  I run through a bottle of eye drops a week.  It seems like my eyes begin to get clouded up with talcum powder and then I get dizzy.  I get so dizzy my legs get weak and I can't stand or walk.  I have to lay down until the dizziness goes away, which can take several hours to all day sometimes.  If I get to the eye drops quick enough, however, I can "wash" my eyes and keep from getting dizzy, but I have to keep doing it over and over for as long as an hour or two most times.  Many times I have become so dizzy I become severly nauseated.  I take three anti-epileptic medications and have for nearly 35 years.  I also have high blood pressure which is well controlled. My MRI done recently shows nothing.  I've spent too much time researching this now and I get linked to nystagmus, oscillopsia, and MS.  I guess too much information is worse than none at all.  Has anyone else known anybody else with symptoms like this and what was their diagnosis?

[funnierthanme63]

My neurologists doubt that it is related to the medications, and after two MRI/MRA's have ruled out anything they can lay claim to that's broken in my brain.  If you've walked on a moving sidewalk at an airport, the dizziness acts like that when it grabs hold of me and I try to walk.  The floor won't hold still and I don't know where to step because the floor has moved from where I thought it was.  It's a debilitating condition.

[Ray T Oyakawa, MD]

This may be related to your epilepsy or its medications.

Dr. O.