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sometimes feel faint, others nausia sometimes both
by Kat812, Nov 07, 2009 10:03PM
sometimes I will just be walking around and will feel faint it hasnt happened in a few weeks but recently started again. Just recently feeling nausea kicked in all day! I can have troubles breathing sometimes and I do have a history of panic and anxiaty attacks but This is nothing like those! The first doc I went to said it was hypoglycemia but i followed the diet and still felt the same! i would check my blood sugar and it would be in the normal. The second said its associated with my anxiety but it doesnt feel like any anxiety i have ever had! I also feel tired quite often during the day and dont ever feel like getting out of bed in the mornings. I never get headaches with this but my head will just feel weighed down like there is a weight on my brain just pushing it down and I at that point just feel like I am going to go down but I never do. I have a 1 year old and I want to have more energy for him but I just dont! I dont know what to do I have felt the lightheadedness for months now and these others symptoms have followed, please help!
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Welcome to the forum!
There are many causes of dizziness, lightheadedness, passing out, blackouts etc. It is difficult to comment without examination. I am just enumerating the possible causes. You can discuss this with your doctor and get yourself examined.
The symptoms could be due to postural hypotension (blood pressure falling with change of position), internal ear problems and cervical spondylitis or compression of cervical spinal nerves. All these cause dizziness when you get up from lying down position or when you change position that results in a change in the level of your head. Cervical spondylitis and ear problems also cause dizziness on changing the position of the neck. These can also cause nausea.
Other causes are anemia, claustrophobia, GERD, hypoglycemia or low sugar (ruled out in your case) and some endocrine problems. Endocrine problems, such as an underactive thyroid (called hypothyroidism), overactive thyroid (called hyperthyroidism), adrenal insufficiency (called Addison's disease), low blood sugar levels, and in some cases, diabetes, may lead to hypotension and hence lightheadedness and an off balance feeling.
Certain types of epilepsies and seizures too can cause similar symptoms. If you have an accompanying headache then you must also look at benign intracranial hypertension. Heart problems too should be ruled out in your case. If all other tests are normal, maybe an ECHO should be done to rule out mitral valve prolapse.
Hope this helps. It is difficult to comment beyond this at this stage. Please let me know if there is any thing else and do keep me posted. Take care!