Vertigo anyone?

Hi all, sorry for long text.

I am quite anxious about this strange night time sensation I have been experiencing for 2 months now.

When I turn over to left side in bed during sleep (well, I usually notice it when I'm half awake and trying to turn over to left side) I get this horrible vertigo for a couple of secs. Then I raise my head and look at something and it gets better. I don't have any vertigo during daily activities and no nausea. Only sometimes if I tilt my head left side backwards intentionally during day and if I move my head suddenly (very slight dizziness then).

Dizziness being involved, I freak out thinking there is something sinister going on in there. As I also experience light headed foggy feeling and occasional mild tension in head, I get panic naturally (even though those are my hallmark panic symptoms which I know very well).

My husband didn't get alarmed when I first told him and he said it sounded like an ear issue instead of a neurological problem. To be honest I searched about it since I still have like a week or so to see an ENT specialist, I found an ear condition exactly with these symptoms. This is scary for me since it's also at the same side as my dental problems and my ear on left side feels a little full and sometimes a little painful. In addition, I have this car engine sound in my left ear but it's been there like forever. But I relate all to each other and make myself a basket of delicious sinister conditions.

Anyone experiencing similar thing?

Vertigo has been a friend of mine for even longer than anxiety. I get those short burst dizzy moments like you describe from time to time. I can even have them for a month or more, then they will vanish.

I've gone back and forth in my mind as to what it might be, perhaps it's a problem with my inner ear or perhaps sinus congestion that places too much pressure in my inner ear.

More recently, I've read for some it can be caused by the vagus nerve complex that runs throughout your abdomen, especially in those with stomach problems or GERD / acid reflux. Basically when this nerve gets stimulated a certain way it can cause you to feel dizzy and faint and cause your blood pressure to fall. I do know that when I've had the dizziness you describe that I can take a stomach med like Nexium (acid reducer) and the vertigo pretty much vanishes.

Of course I can't figure out if my stomach problems cause anxiety or anxiety causes stomach problems...that's another story for another post...hehe.

Hang in there!

I get the same symptoms too. Try not to be freaked out about it as it only feeds your anxious thoughts..
Easier said than done i know.. But i used to get freaked by it and it made the symptoms worse and i was waiting all the time for it to come again and because i had been anxious in that wait .. It would reappear.
I know now ignore as best i can carry on regardless and it subsides.
The physical symptoms linger longer than the anxiety panic mind .. because the body has got sensitive to all the things going on.
I treat is as a bad habit my body has got in to and concentrate on ridding the bad habit. By doing mindful meditations focusing on the now... with the breath..
This works for me xx

R,

Have you looked into Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV)? I went through a spell of vertigo and thought it may be this condition.

Hi!

Scaredy Cat, I would like the link. I have vertigo as we speak and today gave me anxiety thinking it was something else.

Regards,

Susan

GLUA,

Here you go...

/youtu.be/YK2Zj_TrBhE

...bonus...these guys make it pretty entertaining.;)

S.C.

Do you it one time or several times.?