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24/7 dizziness ???
Hi everyone ... has anyone out there experienced 24/7 dizziness from there anxiety ?
I would describe my dizziness NOT as vertigo but as an imbalance while walking (accompanied by a heavy/drowsy head). Sometimes it feels like the ground is not solid.
Those of you who have experienced the type of dizziness I've described, was it all day/everyday or just when you panic ? Does it ever seem to go away or subside ? Also, is there anyone out there who had this symptom then had it disappear after their anxiety was under control or their stress relieved ?
I would describe my dizziness NOT as vertigo but as an imbalance while walking (accompanied by a heavy/drowsy head). Sometimes it feels like the ground is not solid.
Those of you who have experienced the type of dizziness I've described, was it all day/everyday or just when you panic ? Does it ever seem to go away or subside ? Also, is there anyone out there who had this symptom then had it disappear after their anxiety was under control or their stress relieved ?
Guys, after just few days of that horror I saw my homeopath and she gave me Aconitum 200 a homeopathic remedy for anxiety. After 3 days and only 2 granules taken I am a whole new person :) it's amazing! I recommend you try homeopathy ..it wont harm but chances that it will help you are high! :)) I'm so happy now
Hello!
I've had (have them now too) exact same symptoms. I had them first in my teens and saw all possible doctors, had all the tests done, brain scan, blood tests, ECG..everything..One doctor even told me I was just too sensitive and need to grow thicker skin and not be such a cry baby...that said after I was depressed and suicidal after almost a year of constant dizziness and panic..I still managed to graduate from high school...but those months are like a nightmare memory for me now. The only doctor who basically saved me was a homeopath...he prescribed some of their sugar pills and in a week I was completely fine..I couldnt even believe it. Been 100% free from symptoms for 15 years
Now..many years later with no symptoms whatsoever it comes again after some stress...I have seen my GP, and seeing a homeopath next..I strongly believe that is the only thing that helps quick and gives your life back...then I just need to be more careful and manage my stress better
I just wish all the people who suffer from this to be strong and positive and support each other!
I've had (have them now too) exact same symptoms. I had them first in my teens and saw all possible doctors, had all the tests done, brain scan, blood tests, ECG..everything..One doctor even told me I was just too sensitive and need to grow thicker skin and not be such a cry baby...that said after I was depressed and suicidal after almost a year of constant dizziness and panic..I still managed to graduate from high school...but those months are like a nightmare memory for me now. The only doctor who basically saved me was a homeopath...he prescribed some of their sugar pills and in a week I was completely fine..I couldnt even believe it. Been 100% free from symptoms for 15 years
Now..many years later with no symptoms whatsoever it comes again after some stress...I have seen my GP, and seeing a homeopath next..I strongly believe that is the only thing that helps quick and gives your life back...then I just need to be more careful and manage my stress better
I just wish all the people who suffer from this to be strong and positive and support each other!
Ani, New glasses can cause a little dizziness at first, but it is the anxiety that keeps the dizziness coming back day after day. Clonazapam has helped to control my anxiety, and currently my dizziness is non-existent. I would hope a doctor that says it is "just in your head" will prescribe you medication that will give you some relief. Three separate times I have had the worst dizziness a person could have, but I have managed to get through with the help of medication and counseling. I pray the same will happen for you. Good luck.
im am a sufferer of chronic anxiety disorder and its driving me nuts it has been causing daily dizziness as well and it feels like its getting worse whenever i go to the doctors they always tell me exactly what i expect that its just im my head. im in grade 12 my last year and this dizziness has been effecting everything i had to quit my job and now do yr 12 over 2 years. but even thought im reliving some stress in my life its not helping! i cant seem to find a doctor in Australia that can help. my dizziness started when i needed new glasses and once i got them it continued and now its just getting worse due to anxiety. the prescription is correct but i think im just getting used to them as i had my old ones for 5 years! but i keep thinking to myself that this is affecting my life and it is as i cant concentration in school and im not doing the training for cycling. is there anyone that can help mee!!!
How did your MRI go?
I have been taking amitriptyline for two weeks as perscribed by my neurologist as he thought it was migraines. He reminded me that you don't need a headache to have a migraine; it all comes down to the blood vessels in your brain and your hormone levels. The first week I felt horribly tired, even after taking them at night. I have been upping the dosage and my headaches have been reduced. My dizziness also seems a bit better but I am not sure if that is just my brain better adjusting to the state. I thought I might have labyrinthitis since it can last a lot longer than a doctor tells you and my symptoms seemed close to it. Visual stimuli still make it worse (i.e. going to a mall). I have been trying at home vestibular therapy and just taking it easy.
I have been taking amitriptyline for two weeks as perscribed by my neurologist as he thought it was migraines. He reminded me that you don't need a headache to have a migraine; it all comes down to the blood vessels in your brain and your hormone levels. The first week I felt horribly tired, even after taking them at night. I have been upping the dosage and my headaches have been reduced. My dizziness also seems a bit better but I am not sure if that is just my brain better adjusting to the state. I thought I might have labyrinthitis since it can last a lot longer than a doctor tells you and my symptoms seemed close to it. Visual stimuli still make it worse (i.e. going to a mall). I have been trying at home vestibular therapy and just taking it easy.
I hunted for years for the answer to fix my husband’s dizziness. I was determined to find the very best! I'm happy to report I found him!
Maybe you have weird things happening with your balance, blurry vision, exhaustion, headaches, foggy headed, ringing in the ears, certain noises make your head feel like it's being rung like tweety bird in a bell, your eyes feel like they're dancing, some hear crunching through their feet or hear their own eye balls scratching. All kinds of weird stuff! When your sinuses flare up your symptoms may be worse. You lose your train of thought, you can't figure stuff out because your brain feels like it's swimming and you’re always exhausted. You never feel “grounded”. The list goes on. Everyone's symptoms are the same but different. Yes, my hubby has been there. You feel like you’re crazy and you feel alone because no one can physically "see" what you're going through. Some days it's not so bad, other days it takes everything you've got to make it down the hall without falling. Please read the following post. I want people, such as yourself, to know that you do have an option. You don't have to live with it, not ever knowing what exactly the problem is. You don't know me, but I wish I could somehow get the point across that I have found the doc that can fix you!
Here’s my post: Let me start by saying, I'm not one to give false hopes. I am a realist. I spent a great deal of time hunting for solutions while my husband suffered with worsening dizziness, exhaustion, foggy headedness, blurry vision, noise sensitivity, etc. over the past several years.
Online I would see so many people suffering with the same issues and no REAL solutions were ever posted, at least not what we were looking for. It seemed that people just disappeared after posting their desperate cries for help. So I swore to myself that WHEN I found a solution (not "IF"), that I would post to the world what that solution was. Every person is different and I cannot say for sure your problem is the same as my husband's, but I have found the doctor who, no matter what the cause of dizziness, will get to the bottom of it!
His name is Dr. Gerard J. Gianoli (he’s a neurotologist(?))
The Ear and Balance Institute
1401 Ochsner Blvd.
Suite A
Covington, Louisiana 70433
985-809-1111 (phone) http://www.earandbalance.net/Contact.html
It is rare that a doctor really impresses me, but this one is sharp as they come! You can tell for sure the lights are on and someone is home!
There is a big financial negative here though, he doesn't take insurance. You have to pay for your services up front, and it's not cheap. If you have health insurance, you can try to get reimbursed for some of it, but you have to file your own paperwork. People literally come from all over the world to see him, he's that good! When I say not cheap, depending on your condition, you might have to take out a second mortgage or cash in some 401K or have a really high credit limit card or a bunch of small ones. There are some conditions that “feel” severe that can actually be treated for just a few hundred dollars though. You will have to discuss your particular issues with the doc.
We were broke, unemployed and scared that our only wage earner in the house (remember, I’m blind) wasn’t going to be able to work anymore because of the debilitating dizziness. Besides, we had health insurance and it seemed silly to pay out of pocket when we have insurance! We’d already been to a bunch of so-called “dizzy specialist” that did take insurance and had a gazillion tests run and had almost given up all hope of ever finding a cure.
So when they started talking about how much it would cost just to do the testing, we were nervous about forking out the money. But we were desperate as hell and the staff was quite impressive. Ms Val sold me on Dr. Gianoli and I sold him to hubby (wasn’t easy after all he’d already been through for nothing). We took the leap of faith, broke out the credit cards to finally find out what on earth was causing my 45yr old husband, otherwise in perfect health, to be so damned dizzy all the time. (it just started out of the blue a few years ago, he went to pee and had to hold the wall to catch himself, been downhill ever since). 2 full days of testing later and we were told at the end of the 2nd day exactly what it was. That was Mon and Tues. By Friday we were back for surgery to actually cure the problem! Come to find out, it was a skeletal issue that typically manifests itself after 40yrs of age or so. Most folks never have symptoms from it, but a few “special” people have the misfortune of symptoms. I think of it like a balloon with a weak spot in it that eventually wears too thin to hold in the balancing fluids anymore and it starts leaking from that one spot, throwing everything off. Kind of like the bubble of a construction level, never being able to find “level” but the body keeps trying. Then when the body is so busy trying to balance itself 24/7, it steals energy and thought process from daily activities, thus the brain fog and extreme exhaustion all the time (symptoms are gone since surgery). This doctor was the pioneer in discovering the condition.
While I was in the waiting room, I ran into other people with the same types of problems. Some from a couple hundred miles away, some from thousands of miles away. We told each other our sob stories and have kept in touch since. It was nice to know we weren’t alone in our problems. One guy even had sudden panic attacks and hand tremors to go along with his dizziness! But to no surprise, the doctor knew what was causing that too! Some folks were miserably nauseous all the time and some couldn’t lay down horizontally.
So if you’ve found this post and you are fed up with chasing doctors without answers and maybe even given up all hope of ever finding a solution, maybe you’re ready to take that leap of faith too. We were lucky enough to only be 1 ½ driving hours away from him, other folks fly in from all over the world to see him. I imagine the determining factor in whether you pick up the phone and do it depends on how desperate you are. If you’re just coming into this problem and want to try everything else first (been there, done that), I would suggest saving his contact information for future reference.
We were fortunate enough to have credit cards to get it done, but others may have to have fund raisers, ask for church participation, beg family, etc. How badly do you want an answer and how badly do you want to be cured? That’s your call. I’m just here to tell you where the tools are to (most likely) get your everlasting dizziness fixed once and for all! I’m a firm believer in “where there’s a will, there’s a way”. We’ve been having to cut back on stuff and be very frugal as we flirt with bankruptcy from the credit card debt, but it wasn’t a question of whether it was worth it! It was mandatory! What good is living if the quality of it *****? Right? IMO you can’t put a price on that!
He had the surgery and 6 weeks later he was back at work. After a few months, his dizziness is GONE! He’s clear headed, has energy again, driving with confidence and he’s back to my normal old pain in the butt husband!! LOL
So, you don’t know me from Adam. I’m just some person on the net who says she found the doc who has the answers I’ll say it one last time, if you’re over it, call him. You won’t be sorry you did. Val is his office mgr and she can send you literature and explain the process and prices so you can think on it and start planning how to get the money and time together to do it.
My ONLY motivation for posting this is to help people who are suffering through the same misery my husband did for so long. If it only helps one person, then the time it took to write this was well worth it.
God bless!
Maybe you have weird things happening with your balance, blurry vision, exhaustion, headaches, foggy headed, ringing in the ears, certain noises make your head feel like it's being rung like tweety bird in a bell, your eyes feel like they're dancing, some hear crunching through their feet or hear their own eye balls scratching. All kinds of weird stuff! When your sinuses flare up your symptoms may be worse. You lose your train of thought, you can't figure stuff out because your brain feels like it's swimming and you’re always exhausted. You never feel “grounded”. The list goes on. Everyone's symptoms are the same but different. Yes, my hubby has been there. You feel like you’re crazy and you feel alone because no one can physically "see" what you're going through. Some days it's not so bad, other days it takes everything you've got to make it down the hall without falling. Please read the following post. I want people, such as yourself, to know that you do have an option. You don't have to live with it, not ever knowing what exactly the problem is. You don't know me, but I wish I could somehow get the point across that I have found the doc that can fix you!
Here’s my post: Let me start by saying, I'm not one to give false hopes. I am a realist. I spent a great deal of time hunting for solutions while my husband suffered with worsening dizziness, exhaustion, foggy headedness, blurry vision, noise sensitivity, etc. over the past several years.
Online I would see so many people suffering with the same issues and no REAL solutions were ever posted, at least not what we were looking for. It seemed that people just disappeared after posting their desperate cries for help. So I swore to myself that WHEN I found a solution (not "IF"), that I would post to the world what that solution was. Every person is different and I cannot say for sure your problem is the same as my husband's, but I have found the doctor who, no matter what the cause of dizziness, will get to the bottom of it!
His name is Dr. Gerard J. Gianoli (he’s a neurotologist(?))
The Ear and Balance Institute
1401 Ochsner Blvd.
Suite A
Covington, Louisiana 70433
985-809-1111 (phone) http://www.earandbalance.net/Contact.html
It is rare that a doctor really impresses me, but this one is sharp as they come! You can tell for sure the lights are on and someone is home!
There is a big financial negative here though, he doesn't take insurance. You have to pay for your services up front, and it's not cheap. If you have health insurance, you can try to get reimbursed for some of it, but you have to file your own paperwork. People literally come from all over the world to see him, he's that good! When I say not cheap, depending on your condition, you might have to take out a second mortgage or cash in some 401K or have a really high credit limit card or a bunch of small ones. There are some conditions that “feel” severe that can actually be treated for just a few hundred dollars though. You will have to discuss your particular issues with the doc.
We were broke, unemployed and scared that our only wage earner in the house (remember, I’m blind) wasn’t going to be able to work anymore because of the debilitating dizziness. Besides, we had health insurance and it seemed silly to pay out of pocket when we have insurance! We’d already been to a bunch of so-called “dizzy specialist” that did take insurance and had a gazillion tests run and had almost given up all hope of ever finding a cure.
So when they started talking about how much it would cost just to do the testing, we were nervous about forking out the money. But we were desperate as hell and the staff was quite impressive. Ms Val sold me on Dr. Gianoli and I sold him to hubby (wasn’t easy after all he’d already been through for nothing). We took the leap of faith, broke out the credit cards to finally find out what on earth was causing my 45yr old husband, otherwise in perfect health, to be so damned dizzy all the time. (it just started out of the blue a few years ago, he went to pee and had to hold the wall to catch himself, been downhill ever since). 2 full days of testing later and we were told at the end of the 2nd day exactly what it was. That was Mon and Tues. By Friday we were back for surgery to actually cure the problem! Come to find out, it was a skeletal issue that typically manifests itself after 40yrs of age or so. Most folks never have symptoms from it, but a few “special” people have the misfortune of symptoms. I think of it like a balloon with a weak spot in it that eventually wears too thin to hold in the balancing fluids anymore and it starts leaking from that one spot, throwing everything off. Kind of like the bubble of a construction level, never being able to find “level” but the body keeps trying. Then when the body is so busy trying to balance itself 24/7, it steals energy and thought process from daily activities, thus the brain fog and extreme exhaustion all the time (symptoms are gone since surgery). This doctor was the pioneer in discovering the condition.
While I was in the waiting room, I ran into other people with the same types of problems. Some from a couple hundred miles away, some from thousands of miles away. We told each other our sob stories and have kept in touch since. It was nice to know we weren’t alone in our problems. One guy even had sudden panic attacks and hand tremors to go along with his dizziness! But to no surprise, the doctor knew what was causing that too! Some folks were miserably nauseous all the time and some couldn’t lay down horizontally.
So if you’ve found this post and you are fed up with chasing doctors without answers and maybe even given up all hope of ever finding a solution, maybe you’re ready to take that leap of faith too. We were lucky enough to only be 1 ½ driving hours away from him, other folks fly in from all over the world to see him. I imagine the determining factor in whether you pick up the phone and do it depends on how desperate you are. If you’re just coming into this problem and want to try everything else first (been there, done that), I would suggest saving his contact information for future reference.
We were fortunate enough to have credit cards to get it done, but others may have to have fund raisers, ask for church participation, beg family, etc. How badly do you want an answer and how badly do you want to be cured? That’s your call. I’m just here to tell you where the tools are to (most likely) get your everlasting dizziness fixed once and for all! I’m a firm believer in “where there’s a will, there’s a way”. We’ve been having to cut back on stuff and be very frugal as we flirt with bankruptcy from the credit card debt, but it wasn’t a question of whether it was worth it! It was mandatory! What good is living if the quality of it *****? Right? IMO you can’t put a price on that!
He had the surgery and 6 weeks later he was back at work. After a few months, his dizziness is GONE! He’s clear headed, has energy again, driving with confidence and he’s back to my normal old pain in the butt husband!! LOL
So, you don’t know me from Adam. I’m just some person on the net who says she found the doc who has the answers I’ll say it one last time, if you’re over it, call him. You won’t be sorry you did. Val is his office mgr and she can send you literature and explain the process and prices so you can think on it and start planning how to get the money and time together to do it.
My ONLY motivation for posting this is to help people who are suffering through the same misery my husband did for so long. If it only helps one person, then the time it took to write this was well worth it.
God bless!
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Do not go see Dr. Gerard Gianoli based on such a post on the internet from a person that you do not know! I did this mistake and I lost my life. I went to see Dr. Gianoli and he diagnosed me with what doctors call a scam diagnosis. He recommended a "simple procedure" that left me on permanent disability. I lost my hearing, he left me with chronic debilitating vertigo and chronic nausea, a monstrous tinnitus, my ear is pressurized and I suffer from chronic neurological ear pain from his surgery. After he massacred my ear and left me on a permanent agonizing condition, he was willing to put my other ear under his knife. Dr. Gianoli is a ruthless predator who built his clientele through endless positive fake reviews on-line. You will never know who really posted these reviews. Beware, save your life and stay away.
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