dizziness, numbness in feet and arms, fainting

[allie]

I am a 24 y.o. healthy woman who has been experiencing dizziness for the last couple of months which has gotten much worse in the last week. It is not related to getting up from sitting, and the room does not spin. I do not experience N&V, tinnitus, or pressure. It is a momentary (few seconds) feeling of dizziness. I have noticed the dizziness to occur when I keep my head still and move my gaze to the left and right. It does not occur when I gaze up and down. The dizziness also occurs just sitting or walking. I also feel occasional numbness (pins and needles feeling) in my feet. I almost fainted twice this morning, felt slighly nauseous and experienced tingly sensations in my arms and legs. I am scared.
I have had an ECG, blood work, and a hearing test which were all normal. A scope introduced through the nose revealed no problems with inner ears. I tried to have an MRI but couldn’t because of claustrophobia.
In addition, in June, I experienced an avg of 80 PVC’s/hour (shown by Holter monitor) but the PVC’s stopped suddenly after 3 weeks. Could this dizziness be a heart problem even though the ECG was normal and the PVC’s have completely disappeared?
I am presently taking Wellbutrin SL for depression, Ortho Cyclen for dysmenorrhea, Claritin, and now meclizine to help with the dizziness. I smoke ½ PPD and drink a mod. amount of alcohol, but stopped for the last week because of the drugs prescribed possibly interacting. Any suggestions of what this might be?

[CCF Neuro[P] MD, RPS]

Dear Allie:

I am not sure what to tell you.  If everything is normal, ionized calcium, thyroid tests, HCT and hemoglobin.... then it doesn't sound metabolic.  What is blood pressure?  Do you have mitral valve prolapse?  When they measured your orthostatic blood pressure, what was the differential?  What was your B12 and folate level?  There is a possibility that your syncopial spells are cardiac related, have been on a tilt table to see if you might have positional syncopy?  What you describe can be a side effect of wellbutrin.  I would check with your internal medicine doctor.  Sorry I can't be of more help.

Sincerely,

CCF Neuro MD

[Pat]

I am a diet controlled diabetic, I have this tingling and numbness in my left foot.  I have poor circulation, but that has been a problem for about 25-30 years.  I had an acoustic nueroma when I was 20, and there for a while anything that could go wrong did.  I'm a little concerned about this problem

[CCF Neuro[P] MD, RPS]

Dear Pat:

One of the problems with diabetes, even diet controlled diabetes is that long term subtle changes in the sugar level can lead to symptoms as you describe.  One way of telling if your diabetes is truely being in control by your diet is to have a hemoglobin A1c level checked.  If it is above 10 then your diabetes is not in control, and you may need oral hyperglycemic agents.

Sincerely,

CCF Neuro MD

[vanessa]

last may i started having lightheadedness, dizziness, near
blackouts,nauesa, occasional chest pains, and a feeling of weakness.tested positive on the tilt test. im 43  in good shape for my age, not overweight. ekg shows clear but my arotic valuve is bi-cuspid instead of tricuspid ,also have orthostatic blood pressure. i have watched myself to see if there is anything that i am doing to cause all of this. does anyone have any information on neurocardigenic syncope?

[kim]

i've been experiencing these sytems for the last couple of years,.headachs that are there when i wake up ,till i go to bed at night.some times i have them all nightand at other times they seem to settle down.juring the day they get so in tense ican't move . a couple of times i could come out of a deep sleep,it seemed as though i copperhend my surroundings ,but couldn't seem to wake up it felt like i was miles away and couldn't get to where i want to get too.ikepted telling myself ,no i can hear my son calling me i must wake up. so i forced myself to move for a few moments it felt like i wasn't moving.but i knew i had to get to my son,so i crawled from bed and continueing crawlingto get to my son ,but couldn't come out it, my son who is five cameto me held me for a few minutes i then slowly became orriented. i felt dizzy,spinning,blurred vision.then it when away,but yet off balance. which it is qiuet offen for me to be off balance.i know theres a wall i'll wake right into itby half afoot.i walk down the street on a sidewalk and almost fall over.i am sometimes dizzy at this time other times i'm not.i do this quiet offen,i get intense headaches everyday they don't go away.my vision seems to go blurry,then afterawhile its goes back to the way it is normally.my right eye is weaker than the left,this is the side ,underneath my right eye strarts twitching uncontrollabely. sometimes that side of my face will drop,quiet noticably.i get dizzy alot. i have had it were my mind goes totally black and i don't see or here anything nor do i remember what i was doing prie ti this,i forget what i'm doing qiuet often.my arms and legs go numb then intensely begin to ache and hurt.i get nausiated and sometimes throw up for no apparent reason.but not all the time.i am now so tied all the time no matter how much sleep i get ,it's never enough.when i wake up i have energy for an hour or a few.then i'm exausted.i'm not an depressnt. i love life it just is i'm not able to enjoy it like i used to.i've had a few small seizers in my early twentys .i am 32yrs. of age now.oh, yes i should mention i do slurr sometimes when i speak.not all the time.when i have a bath myneck seizes uo for a few days .it is always sore and quiet tight.i have several spots on the head ,neck and face which hurt a lot.i don't drink  or do any kind of drugs,but i do smoke a half,or pak a day.i have tender spts on other parts of my body.and hurt to touch.also have endometriosisand sore kidnets which are always sore and seizing sometimes i'll get a large lump there which is a purplely blue in color then goes away.theswelling seems to be always there.other parts of my upper and lower abdominal area lump up and seize.i've had blood tests for all kinds of things .don't have diabetis or hepititis or hiv or sexually transmitted deseases.i'm not anemic.i've had lumps prier in all kinds of places quiet largely ,then the skin areas will go down in a few weeks.

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