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Posted 4/21/2014 4:46 PM (GMT 0)
Hi anxiousone and welcome!

Good to have you join us! Please visit our Resources here on the main page for great information and self-help ideas...and feel free to post with us anytime for support.

You can start a new post to introduce yourself to the group at anytime...

Hope to hear more from you,

Scaredy Cat
Posted 4/22/2014 1:42 AM (GMT 0)
Hi; I haven't been on this forum for a while. I have made some improvements I'm on lexapro and the doctor gave me Buspar for my anxiety cause I'm constantly anxious which I believe now that is where my dizziness comes from. I have been doing a lot of excercise, walking and jogging. I still suffer everyday from chronic anxiety but family, friends and husband are no support. Especially my husband is verbally abusive. We no longer live together. He can talk about his problems and anxiety but when I mention my anxiety he screams and swears at me. I have been on another forum and I have met two woman one is 21 and the other 35 and a woman in her 60's with this same problem. The 60 YO shes had this since she was in her 20's. the one 21 YO has had this for 2 years and the 35 YO has had this for 10 years. They are all like I use to be as far as my dizziness, so I know I have come a long way but I just get tired of feeling like this everyday. I have also had this for two years. I really believe if I had a better support system this wouldn't have been going on for this long. Thank you everyone for your responses.
Posted 3/16/2015 4:24 PM (GMT 0)
Hi I have been dealing with chronic subjective dizziness, migraines and vertigo attacks for a year now. No matter what type of excerise, even walking I get so dizzy. I was put on meds and it does not seem to help nor does PT. A month ago the OBGYN was thinking that it could be from my birth control and switch me to something else and it helped a little, but I need to give it some time. I feel the same way as you do as I have been doctoring for 1 1/2 years now and feel so frustrated that I am to the point of not going to the clinic anymore. I agreen with you that the docs just put an answer and not really pinpointing the cause of it.
Posted 3/16/2015 8:07 PM (GMT 0)
Hi PBM and welcome!

I too have migraines and occasional vertigo that seems to go along with the migraine auras...

I believe that this all factors in with anxiety as well as hormonal fluxuations.

Do you feel that anxiety factors into your issues as well?

S.C.
Posted 3/17/2015 9:49 AM (GMT 0)
There is a book called 'phobia free' by Harold Levinson. I'm reading it now.

If you search for info on the internet by his name you will find someone writing about this topic in 2007. He wrote on many of the anxiety forums.

The connect to inner ear problems and phobia's/anxiety is interesting. Very few doctors understand it or take the time to even think about it. Good luck finding a doctor that can help with this. He gives a good list of medications that can be helpful.

I have inner ear issues. (I don't have a phobia) The Last ENT I saw just looked inside my ears and said all is well. Yeah, it's not.

I tend to feel wobbly and sometimes feel like I'm slanted, off balance.
Posted 3/18/2015 1:25 AM (GMT 0)
Hello I to get dizzy while walking sometimes... I do have anxiety issues often.. but I had neck surgery and year and half ago.. I think that is what causes some of it and then I get anxiety after that... some days im ok but if i sleep wrong or so anything that bothers my neck like use the computer to long.. then I have dizzy problems the next day and then anxiety gets worse because of it...... I think a good share of your problems maybe your neck as well then anxiety making it much worse... I have to say though I as glad I had the neck surgery because I was losing use of my left arm and it was hurting so bad.. and now that is gone.. hope you feel better.. you are not alone!!!!!
Posted 4/4/2015 2:58 PM (GMT 0)
Hi i am new here i have read all your problem ... I had the same problem as your ... I feel dizzy when i am walking .. And i feel ok when ever i am seating in a bus or car or on my bed ... I had this dizziness unbalance feeling for around 6 months ... It makes me always thinking of it and scared to walk ....
Posted 4/4/2015 10:02 PM (GMT 0)
Hello Martiniphang and welcome!

I am sorry to hear that you are experiencing this issue and dealing with anxiety...no fun.:(


It is my hope that you are in the process of getting help from your doctor and/or therapist to find a treatment option that works for you!

We have great self-help ideas at the top of the main forum page in the Resources thread. You will find all sorts of breathing exercises, as well as other coping skills for reducing anxiety and the physical symptoms is can cause.

Continue to post with us for understanding and support! You can start your own thread of introduction anytime...and in that way more of the community will recognize you as a new member and welcome you.;)

Talk to you soon,

Scaredy Cat
Posted 4/5/2015 2:01 AM (GMT 0)
I have had this the past week and a half and started taking allergy medicine and it gradually went away, to where it's barely noticeable anymore.

This is one where I don't think it's a symptom of anxiety, but something else.
Posted 4/5/2015 5:20 AM (GMT 0)
BDL

Congestion can cause or exacerbate dizziness...especially if it is in the ears.

Good reminder for all to have the inner ears checked!


S.C.
Posted 4/5/2015 2:55 PM (GMT 0)
Thanks scaredy cat for your advise.... I will follow up ....
Posted 2/2/2017 12:29 AM (GMT 0)
Hi Hardtime,

I have been dealing with dizziness upon standing / walking off and on for about 10 years. My anxiety kicked up again once I had my kids. It doesn't bother me anymore, I function fine, and is not always there. But just to give you an idea, my symptoms feel like I'm walking on clouds, un balanced, or uncoordinated at times. It gets better as my anxiety improves and gets worse as my anxiety worsens.

I have found the best remedy is to treat the underlying cause of your anxiety. Which for me, is health anxiety / GAD in which I constantly worry about some crazy disease I might die from. So I actually utilize CBT to help me identify my negative thoughts. I use it especially when my anxiety is really bad. Sometimes I have the symptoms but my anxiety is fine ( which I believe is due to my breathing).

But either way, you are not alone.
Posted 2/2/2017 6:00 PM (GMT 0)
I think dizziness is a problem for a lot of us, my take is that if it was something serious i would have died
a long time ago, the fact that it seems to be selective, or situational allows me to ignore it, "after it gos
away", lol
Somethings that set mine off is bright tail lights on cars at night, strobe lights on police/emergency vehicles movement, like me sitting still and the guy/gal beside me letting their car roll, yuck this one really gets me.
All in all if you have been checked by a doctor and he/she finds no real reason for the dizziness then its just part of who we are, allow yourself to breath and Live, Peace
Larry ***
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