I've been dealing with a light-headed feeling since I first got a panic attack in July 7th. Ever since then I've had a few panic attacks. I've been checked for everything! Brain MRI and MRA, Brain CT Scan, Multiple EKGs during ER visits, a 27/7 holter monitor (EKG), A stress test together with an ecochardiogram (heart ultrasound), multiple blood tests. EVERYTHING IS NEGATIVE.
Panic attacks and migranes have subsided . The only symptom that is still present is the light-headed feeling 24/7. It has gotten a lot better, but I'm not back to normal yet (it has been five months). I've been taking 5-HTP, Magnesium, and B-12/B-6 Vitatmines (as I've done some research and found it that these supplements help). I've also beeing doing therapy and I just started working out two weeks ago (sometimes I feel worse after working out)
Is there anything else I should be doing to beat this terrible feeling? Can you share your experience with me? what makes it better?
I have exact same feeling.. whole day light headedness and dizziness.. the issue with me is that i dont know what is causing my anxiety.. as soon as i wake up in the morning, the next second my heart start racing and my anxiety starts even though my brain is completely blank and have no thoughs whatsoever... then within few min lightheadedness starts and that last till i go to bed and the associated anxiety also continues... do u have similar thing going on?? do u get anxiety as soon as u wake up without any thoughs or reason? do anyone experience that??
Honestly accept all this now and be your friend to yourself. Its not a battle actually. Its loving yourself. You are doing all wonderful things add in loving yourself and believing and feeling well too. You must focus on what you do want. Not any ailments, not what you dont want. And learn to meditate and do mindful excersises theres many apps for that and utube.
My experience is this comes and goes. It has gone for years at a time. It seems to pop back up with illness, high stress stuff. I have ailments so i think my situation is different but the it all plays the same.
Hello I've had those same symptoms and I've called ambulances and felt like I was having a heart attack and was convinced something was physically wrong with me. Some things I've learned is that caffeine always makes my symptoms worse and when I eat better I feel better also on YouTube you can search "5 minute guided meditation" these help me relax and feel calm and concentrate on my breathing and not on my symptoms. I still have a long way to go and a lot to overcome but that helps me
Sounds as if you have lingering anxiety, have you looked into your life to see if there is something still not right, why did you have the first panic attack, there must have been a reason why you had one, is that reason still there. Go to Smiths and get a note book, sit quietly and put down your thoughts as to why you had panics and try to analyse what caused them. Anxiety causes so many symptoms in every part of the body. Read Ruby Wax's book Sane New World, its very funny and very helpful
Yes, I may be feeling dizzy and light headed as soon as I wake up. I also may feel this way even if I'm not anxious at all! If I'm at work, just typing up a report, I might have this feeling. From the research I've done, I've found out that Magnesium is used in may important chemical reactions in the body and brain. My MD and therapists both agree that this is most likely a chemical inbalance in the bran. And that it isn't necessarely purely psychological. Try taking the supplments I mentioned. They helped me out.
Thank you for your time Carole. From the therapy sessions, my therapists concluded that my panic attacks are due to guilt themes within my brain. There are some things I've done that cause me to feel like i shoud die! I've experimented with drugs, nothing too serious. Apparently this caused me to think I was going to die, since I grew up in a very religious family. All doctors and tests have reassured me that I will not be dying because I smoked pot a few times or tried cocaine. The lingering anxiety I don't know why is there, since I've stopped doing drugs completely. Thank you for the suggestion on the book. I'll be checking that out. Thanks for your time! Cheers!!
Your story sounds like mine. I've been suffering since July 4th, with similar symptoms. I too, had most of the same tests done as you. All came back normal. 😁
I've just recently started feeling better. I was literally waking up every morning feeling light headed and nauseous. I didn't want to get out of bed. I would wake up every morning thinking to myself am I going to feel sick today.
What I did was I would literally force myself to get out of bed and do normal activities. I realized the more I focused on feeling like this, the more I would feel sick. I started seeing an improvement instantly when I would try to do my normal day to day stuff. Trust me, it was hard to make myself do my normal day to day activities.
Our minds are so strong that we literally can create all these issues and symptoms for ourself. Best advice I can give you is accept that it is just anxiety causing this and try hard to get your mind off of it. Just remember this isn't a permanent thing and it will go away. You will learn to manage it and soon your life will be back to normal! 😀
after not sleeping good everynight, i literally wake up gaging with nervousness and have to calm myself but I feel like throwing up each morning so sick to my stomach. dizzy and lightheaded all day feels like my blood is poisoned. trying so hard to get thru each day. negative thoughts running over and over in my head all day. it is a hard pattern to break.
I feel lightheaded just now even when I'm layed down scary is just rang 111 it's my heart one day then my head I feel like I'm dieing every day docs say it's anxiety but I don't think it is don't feel like it at all I'm waiting for the worst to happen does any one feel like me or do I just feel like this I don't no what to do
I am 39 male and totally healthy. But for the past 2 years i have had problems with unsteadiness and feeling light headed. Like you i had numerous tests which didn't find anything so anxiety looks like the only logical explanation.
I really hate this feeling as it freaks me out if i go for a run so much that i dread doing cardio now in case something happens. i think minduflness is meant to help but other than that i don't know of any other remedies.
Your anxiety is the reason why you're feeling lightheaded - I would encourage you to do PMR exercises at least twice a day for 2 week and then once a day for another 4 weeks - you need to reduce your anxiety as being discharged via your cognitive/perception pathway - you have to get your brain to learn to manage your anxiety developing into the freeze response which is where it's going currently (fight / fight and freeze) - PMR exercises can help you to rebalance what sounds like dysautonomia (PMR's activate your sympathetic ANS system - currently your parasympathetic ANS dominant and why you're lightheaded) - do not do autogenic exercises such as mindfulness / breathing as this is counterproductive and will only exacerbate your freeze response
Persevere and you may well be pleasantly surprised
Wow you guys described it perfectly. I had this years ago, along with a diagnosis of gad, and it eventually became a quality of life issue so I bit the bullet and went on 2 years of lexapro 10mg, and then 2 years at 5mg. About 4 months in, one day I realied I hadn't felt lightheaded in a while, and it was true. Totally gone for years. Hurray!
I decided 6 months ago to stop taking lexapro completely, and lo and behold, the goddamn lightheadedness is back. Waking up everything is fine, but then it creeps back in. When it's at its worst later in the day, I find myself yawning a lot too. Funny, I can manage the anxious thoughts these days now that I'm no longer afraid of them, esp with things i learned from meditation classes or breathing, but this daily physical discomfort is a total bummer.
I got over an anxiety attack where I felt bad for over a month. No more racing thoughts or sleepless nights but I still feel light headed. I've been keeping a journal and it's been 16 days since I felt better. I've been taking amino acids and magnesium for about 3 weeks. If I could get rid of this spacey/ dizzy feeling I would be fine. I did read somewhere, "it took time for you to feel bad, it's going to take time for you to feel good again."