Dizziness, fuzziness, tingling

[TheYardstick]

I am a 21 year old female with no diagnosed medical problems. I eat vegetables, fruit, and whole grains in my diet as well as enough water each day. I moderately use alcohol. I did have inner ear tubes put in when I was a baby. For the past three days I have had a feeling of heavy-headedness, fuzziness, weakness, and dizziness; I can't seem to focus or I can focus only on one thing at a time, and my vision is blurry at the edges, like looking into a tunnel. Some of my extremities (namely my feet) start tingling after only a few seconds in a certain position, but not all the time--this has only happened twice in the three days. I suspect that I may have mild anxiety and hypoglycemia from other occurances in my life unrelated to these recent problems but I have not been diagnosed. I have been getting enough sleep and have been eating a balance of healthy foods. What are the possible reasons for this dizziness and what can I do to make it go away? I am in summer school and do not want this to affect my work.

[Helen1058]

Could you be pregnant?  Let me know how you do.

[randompsi]

Alchohol makes the brain dizziness. Some bacteria combined with alchohol can do that too. A lot of food contain these type of bacteria. The stuff you are using may be tainted.
Cures
Avoid these tainted objects and aim for multipurpose natural-recycled products of things like naturally occurring and recycled nylons.
Focus on the clock's center as a guide. Then move your motion until the center become clear as one and the image will match. It takes effort, but it can reduce the symptoms and heal the person. Also, picture the abstract things you see and sculpt the image into rough ideals. Then add more detail to it until the vision become clear. When you have problems, check all parts of body. Cycling 10 minutes each day also seems to help the person to recover as long as it is only simply dizziness, fuzziness, and tingling. As the eye-sight is hardly recovered, try cycling bunny slopes and easy and safe rails.
I hope it helps.

[Dr. Kokil Mathur]

Hi
Welcome to the MedHelp forum!
First consult an ENT specialist and see if the tubes are fine and there is no other ear cause. If ear is the cause of vertigo (rotator movement of self or environment) then it could be due to benign positional vertigo, Meniere's disease, vestibular neuronitis and labyrinthitis. Other causes of dizziness are otitis media, trauma, side effects of drugs, TMJ, and fluid in ear. All these causes will have to be ruled out one by one by your ENT through specialized test. If it is blocked Eustachian tube, then doing a valsalva maneuver (Done by taking a deep breath and blowing while pinching your nostrils and closing your mouth) will help. This will help clear the secretions in the tube that connects the back of your throat with your ear.
You need to get examined to rule out a few things such as low blood pressure, postural hypotension (fall in blood pressure, cervical spinal nerve compression, hypoglycemia (low blood sugar), severe anemia, an underactive thyroid (called hypothyroidism), overactive thyroid (called hyperthyroidism), adrenal insufficiency (called Addison's disease), GERD or gastric reflux, and internal ear infections.
Since I cannot examine you and know other related conditions you may be having, nor is a detailed history possible on net, I have listed the various possibilities that should be looked into. Please consult your PCP to run tests and examination to clinch a diagnosis.
Take care!

[TheYardstick]

I want to add that I am on Sprintec birth control and have been since September 2010, and this period of dizziness and fuzziness coincided with my period, which was unusually short and light. I have tried to eat enough iron and drink enough water. Is it that simple, or could it be something more?