Dizzyness, blurry vision, sharp headaches, and pounding heart.

[kristina0603]

For nearly four years now I've been having these spell type things. It started when I was twelve, the year I both started my period and had my appendix taken out. I'm almost sixteen now and it still hasn't gone away. It happens at varying times. Sometimes I'll go a few weeks without experiencing it, and sometimes I get it twice in one day. I'll stand up and it'll just hit me. I get this severe, sharp headache right over my eyebrows, and my vision gets really blurry, and I get dizzy and feel like I'm going to pass out. My whole body gets cold and it's hard for me to breathe, and my heart starts pounding really hard. It's been so bad that I've been one one side of my room one second, and the next I'm on the floor on the opposite side of the room. This really frightens me, because there is absolutely no explanation for it, and I'm all the time living in fear of when it'll happen next. I get my license in June, and I'm worried about what'll happen if I get it while I'm driving. And incase it helps, I'm 104 pounds, 5'3'', have low blood pressure, and I was diagnosed with depression when I was thirteen(I've heard that these are symptoms of panic attacks, which can link to depression)

[candiecane]

You might want to see a neurologist to have EEG and a MRI done to see if seizures are occuring and a cardiologist about the headaches to rule out any heart problems.  Keep a log of what you eat and when these headaches and episodes are occurring for a better diagnosis.  

[kay2486]

if you stop waiting for it to happen it wont, i forget about bout my anxiety and its taken 6 months to sort myself out, people dont usually faint when they have a panic attack because their bp goes up this normally has something to do with the heart not pumping efficiently

[CHRISTYDRAKE]

It could be dysautonomia.  You can get inbalance of your autonomic nervous system after having surgery.  All of the symptoms you listed are there.  Sometimes it also occurs with puberty.  To read up on it go to dinet.org or ndrf.org.  For some people the symptoms come and go, and for others they are constant.  If you get it as a teenager you have a higher percentage of outgrowing it.  

Frequently doctors diagnos this as anxiety or depression, when indeed it is a very physical thing.  It took us 3 years to get my son properly diagnosed, he started having symtpoms when he was 11 and he is now 15.
Christy

[bstevenson]

well, it could be panic attacks, and do you have any of these symptoms:
Shaking or trembling
Feeling that your heart is pounding or racing
Sweating
Chest pain or discomfort
Shortness of breath
Feeling that you are choking
Nausea
Cramping
Dizziness or weakness
An out-of-body feeling
Tingling or numbness in your hands, arms, feet or legs
Chills or hot flashes
if you do you need to go to a doctor and tell them you are having panic attacks because it could be very dangerous...brittany