anyone hay dizziness an cant get control of it

[michelleossoinik]

if anyone has what i have i feel for them,dizziness takes over your life an its harder every dayif u do what have u done for it or if u have been cured from the dizzziness plz help      

[twintwo]

A close neighbor just sent me this info about Janet Jackson, as her recent vertigo symptoms/dizziness that caused her to cancel appearances do sound similar to mine.  

http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=6043241    click on this link - it associates these symptoms with migraine pressure without headache pain.  

I don't have the spinning vertigo as others describe, mine is a constant feeling of motion and is constant and occurs every day - for more than a year now.  Janet J's vertigo symptoms of feeling as if she's on a boat - or floating - mirrors my experience.   I also often have intense pressure in my head/ears/sinus but I would never have thought this pressure was a headache or migraine related as this article explains.  I know how a typical migraine affected my mother - her pain was so severe - I very rarely get a headache and avoid medication of any type.  Until I became dizzy I only saw my doctor at my yearly physical.

I just returned from a week long process workshop in Mesa AZ and each day was torturous.  I tried not to panic when the motion I felt sitting in a conference room all week just would not ease up.  I could really feel every "bob and dip" movement - fortunately I was able to get up often to take breaks.  I'm curious to find out how Janet Jackson's symptoms have been treated.  The article doesn't say if she's back on tour yet.

I have never heard of - and not one of the doctors I've seen have ever mentioned - " Mal de Debarquement or Floating Woman Syndrome" - I'm printing this article about Janet Jackson to take to my PCP, EN&T, and Naturepath.

I'm hoping this dizziness is just hormonal and related to the onset of menopause.  I've been battling this for a year now and I hope to find out how Janet Jackson was treated - I do feel hopeful!  I also just bought Suzanne Sommers book "Breakthrough" to read on the plane.  Very interesting and insightful.  She confirms the aspects of poor "gut / intestinal / digestive track" health as the root of all health problems.  Her book is getting good reviews.  I will share more as delve deeper into her book.

At the advice of the Naturepath I've been working with, I've been off of wheat and gluten for more than a month.  Unfortunately I had very painful inflammation of my mouth tissue two weeks ago, so she recommend removing processed sugar from my diet as well, to speed the healing process of having thrush/candida. I've never had that before - I thought it was a condition that just affected children - my mouth is fine now.  She said to keep up these diet constraints until she sees that my compromised immune system has improved.

Celiac Sprue runs in my family (cousins) and recent blood work showed I had sensitivity to wheat, almonds, dairy, pineapple and kidney beans.  With supplementing Vitamin D, my levels have been elevated to 23 - I was at 15 or 16.  I take 2000 units each day and try my best to get a little sun each day - not easy to do in this Seattle weather.   I'm hoping these diet adjustments will help lower my high thyroid antibodies as my Naturepath explained poor nutritional / gut health causes autoimmune problems. I'm off of Thyroid hormone as I reacted badly to the low amounts of Synthroid my PCP prescribed.   In a few months I return for more blood work to check levels.

Even with diet changes I'm still dizzy each and every day, still have tinnitus buzzing in my left ear for more than 4 years now and head pressure.  I've been to the ER twice because of chest pains and  followups with a cardiologist. EKG, Echo, stress test all fine.  I've been to an EN&T - don't have Menieres.  Had Full Vestibular Assessment test at the U of W.  Three out of the six tests showed abnormalities but no doctor can seem to find out why I'm constantly dizzy.   Had MRI to rule out abnormalities or lesions on my brain.  I'm hopeful to find out how Janet Jackson's dizziness has been treated.

Hope all are doing better, I welcome any thoughts you may have.

[mirisa]

Do you have migraines too? Do you faint from the dizziness?