What is this? Dizzyness?

[540220]

Hello I dont know what is this or what shall i call it, Dizzyness? I have been suffering with a puzzle (but panic) syndrom since age 13( i cant remember correctly). Now let come what happens to me sometimes. I suddenly feel a puzzle/ puzzling sensation about the environment around me(no faint, I can walk with this), a light headness, feeling depersonalization. It attacks me sequencely, get worse if i continue moving( The puzzling feeling in eyes is similar to what happen to some people in Metro rail stairs. A sort of illusion in my vision. I always close my eyes, when it happens, when weak and attacked by some disease it comes. My doctor told me that it must has been vertigo. But I have no other feelings, like pain, irritation in ear. The feelings come when there is sudden change in view, or sudden and consistent changes in lights. What is this when i do not have any other problems. It attacks me sometimes and I have developed a general anxiety disorder for that when I am in Road. Please help me , please. With love

[somemonkey]

My dizziness is from really low blood pressure. I get panic and anxiety with it. You should check that too.

[anonymous680]

Sometimes I get the dizziness and lightheadedness to the point where I can't drive. I also get the altered state of mind you are talking about. It's weird. I feel like I am on drugs when I am not. It's hard to believe that anxiety can have these powerful effects since the effects are so real. It's like driving drunk for me. Maybe worse.

I've had a panic attack on the road before, and now driving can be difficult sometimes; especially long distances. Last week I drove my friend to the airport. The airport he flew out of is about 4-4.5 hrs round trip. As the sky got dark, suddenly all the lights around me were blurry. I got to the point where couldn't concentrate on the road at all and I was swerving. All I saw was red blurs from the cars tail lights. I couldn't focus my eyes. Knowing that it wasn't safe for me to drive in a state like that (winding roads through mountains), I stopped at a motel to sleep. I didn't have a panic attack, but probably would if I stayed on the road that night. I didn't really want to pay for a motel and kept contemplating whether I should just keep going. It was good judgement that I didn't continue driving through dangerous mountain roads that night. I felt much better by morning, and the drive back the next day was fine.

Since virtually all my anxiety symptoms are physical and neurological, it's still hard for me to understand how anxiety can cause this. Everything I experience is very real, and it can be some scary stuff. The scariest part is that my anxiety is unpredictable. Often nothing triggers it. When it hits hard, I'm often not prepared.

I'm moving and driving across the country next week, and I know it's probably not a good idea to drive by myself. I feel like I can do it, but my better judgment thinks that it's not a great idea. A friend that knows I have trouble driving sometimes has offered to drive for me (a very kind gesture), but I am contemplating on whether I should accept the offer or not. It's a long drive, and I feel like they are being too generous.

Anyway, long story short, I have suffered from depression before with what I would call normal levels of anxiety. I went off my anti-depressant cold turkey a couple years ago without any side effects. After going off of it, I didn't feel any different. I was doing great for about year and a half. I obviously didn't need the anti-depressants anymore. Now I have developed anxiety with no depression. I believe that my anxiety started after some health issues when I started worrying about my health. I'm not quite sure where it came from to be honest, but it's not like anything I have ever experienced. It *****, but I know I need to stay positive to get through this bump.

[Paxiled]

This is a common symptom of anxiety, which doesn't mean it isn't something else, but many of us with anxiety went to emergency rooms only to be told it was vertigo but it wasn't, it was anxiety.