Balance

I tip over quite a bit, or walk into door frames. The fog or being dizzy doesn't coincide with my tipping incidents. I can be feeling "fine" and just suddenly tip over, albeit being dizzy or foggy makes it worse.

I call it tipping, as that's exactly what it is. As I lift a leg I tip over to the other side… almost always to my right. I've been dealing with it as another symptom of FM (as I know balance can be an issue), but when I fell down the stairs I figured it was time to mention it to my doc. He's not so sure this is FM, and is sending me to a neurologist (I'm starting to think I need a psychiatrist :p ).

Question: how common is it among you folk to just fall over, with no dizziness nor fog, or even simply bounce off door frames as you walk into them.

To me...this was my most problematic symptom. And then I found out I didn't have Fibro at all. I had lyme disease and a few lyme-related co-infections called Bartonella and Babesia.

It took me a look time to get to the root of my illness. All my tests were negative (including my lyme test) so I was told it was "in my head" or "Fibromyalgia." I finally found an ILADS trained LLMD who recognized these as lyme symptoms.

I've been in agressive treatment for 14 months and am 95% today! My dizziness issues which almost had me disabled are completely gone! My muscle aches, GI issues, vision problems, etc, brain fog, malaise, cognitive function, etc, are all gone as well! I only have a few more months of therapy and I expect to be back to 100%. I didn't think this was possible a year ago.

Had I not gotten a proper diagnosis of lyme disease I would still be suffering with "Fibromyalgia." I have since met several lyme patients who were originally diagnosed with Fibro. Based on my personal experience, the experience of other lymies, and lyme doctors / researches, I do believe that Fibro usually is caused by undiagnosed lyme disease.

You may want to check it out...or at least go over to the lyme forum and post your story / questions and see what folks say.