About 2 months ago, I began having dizzy spells here and there. There was a chance I could have been pregnant, and dizziness was my first sign of pregnancy with my first, so I kept testing. Long story short, I wasn’t pregnant (confirmed with blood test).
Since then, I keep having these momentary dizzy spells, but I was ignoring them because they weren’t really interfering with my life and they were few and far between.
I began to google dizziness, and decided it could very well be that I have anemia (iron, B12, and/or folate deficiency). The doctor ran all these blood tests, and they called me with the results Friday; they all came back normal. Now, they want to do a brain MRI.
Ever since they mentioned doing a brain MRI, I feel like I’m spiraling. I have a one-year-old daughter, and I keep imagining leaving her motherless. I keep thinking how I might not get to watch her grow up, and what I could possibly leave her to let her know how much I love her. I have also been experiencing the dizziness much more often, feel like I’m living in a fog, and having headaches. I’ve never in my life had anxiety, and even though the people in my life who actually do have anxiety are saying that it sounds just like it, I’m hesitant to believe them because I’ve never had a history of it. I’ve been plenty stressed and worried about things before, and have never felt like this.
Because it’s the weekend, I went to urgent care to see what that doctor thought about it (because I don’t feel like I can just wait patiently for the MRI, which hasn’t even been scheduled yet). They said the dizziness is super worrisome to them, since it’s been ongoing for 2 months. They said vertigo usually comes and goes.
The only other thing I think it COULD be is that my contacts prescription is out of date. I haven’t had an eye exam in maybe 3 years. I called my optometrist, but they can’t get me in for an eye exam until August. I just feel like I need answers NOW; the wait is affecting my life.