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Constant Dizzy Feeling?

I'm a 20 year old female. My diet is not the best, but I have been trying to better it so lately I have quit drinking so much caffeine and switched to mostly water. I am a smoker, but I have also cut back since these things have started happening. So a few months back I started getting really bad vertigo. To the point where it was scaring me so bad one night I went to the ER. They flushed my ears out because they were pretty plugged up with wax, and then they gave me some fluids for hydration. Since then I've had this constant dizziness in my head. It NEVER goes away unless of course I'm sleeping and can't feel it. It's so hard to explain but it's just an almost vertigo like feeling but not as extreme. Worsens when I lay down. Every once in a while I do experience a headache, but it's not commom. My head just always feels kind of heavy. Or like someone is squeezing my head. I mostly feel this in the back side of my head. Every once in a while I would also experience this jolting sensation in my head. I wouldn't say it's painful, but more scary than anything. It causes me to get a little anxious and my heart will start to race. It's almost similar to when you're trying to fall asleep and you jolt awake because you feel like you're falling or something?
Sometimes I also experience a numbness in the back of my head. I have a sleep study in the next few days because I've also been experiencing what my doctor thinks is sleep apnea. I will stop breathing and jolt myself awake which causes my heart to race every time I start to doze off. I have no idea if this would be related to the dizziness in any way, but I'm just looking for some answers. I also have a plan to get my eyes checked because my eye site is getting horrid. I do suffer from anxiety and depression. But I feel like these things would not cause a dizziness 24/7. Not to mention I haven't been super stressed out or depressed lately. My anxiety is always somewhat bad. But it hasn't been as bad as its been before. I've actually started a new job that makes me less stressed than I have been in the last few years. I did also recently stop taking my birth control shot that I was on for a total of 4 years. I was recently diagnosed with fibromyalgia and they're also looking into lupus as well. Not sure if those details help.  This feeling is ruining my life. It makes it hard for me to work because I'm on a computer all day. And it just makes it hard to do anything like watch tv, play games, to outdoors, read a book, etc because I'm always dizzy.
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