29years old, male, 155lbs and no significant health problems.
I've had occasional migraines with vision disturbance since I was in my teens. Occasionally, I would get headaches that would turn into a severe migraine and I would lose vision in one or both eyes until I'd go into a completely dark room and swallow an Excedrin Migraine pill. I'd get this anywhere between once a month to as few as a few times a year - sometimes I'd get clusters of them and I'd get a few in the same month. I found out that bright light seemed to cause them so I took steps to reduce bright light and I got them less often.
Fast forward to now - I'm not 100% sure when it began but around April or so I began to feel slight dizziness and unbalance, most notably when I'd go into an elevator each morning at work. I began to notice each morning that it felt like I had a constant hangover with dizziness despite not drinking alcohol.
My dizziness has gotten progressively worse and consistent and the worse my dizziness is the more head fog I have - almost to the point of the inability to think. Episodes also seem to give me severe anxiety. It was bad enough that one day I went to urgent care. The Dr. said I had a Eustachian Tube Dysfunction and wrote me a script for Steroids and Dramamine. I felt good on the steroids but felt like [censored] again when I came off them. I went to my GP who suggested allergies since Steroids helped me and put me on Allegra and referred me to an ENT to check my ears. The ENT said I do not have any symptoms of allergies but did an audiology test and my ears checked out fine. The Dr. asked me if I had a history of migraines - to which I confirmed and he recommended I see a neurologist as migraines can cause dizziness even if you don't have a headache.
I'm a few weeks to a month from seeing a neurologist but I've been reading up and I have the symptoms of Vestibular Migraines or Migriane-Anxiety Redlated Dizziness except I seem to have a severe case of it where I have constant symptoms of Vertigo. Essentially, if you shake your head back and forth 20 times quickly and then stop - this is what I feel like pretty much 24/7 from when I wake up until I sleep. Every once in a while it will go away and I feel completely lucid and calm like I've never been better...only for it to return the next morning.
My symptoms are basically head fog, constant dizziness/unbalance with occasional one-two minute episodes of sharp headaches and anxiety. Has anyone dealt with this or something similar? I am curious to hear your experience and what your treatments/diagnosis were.
I've had occasional migraines with vision disturbance since I was in my teens. Occasionally, I would get headaches that would turn into a severe migraine and I would lose vision in one or both eyes until I'd go into a completely dark room and swallow an Excedrin Migraine pill. I'd get this anywhere between once a month to as few as a few times a year - sometimes I'd get clusters of them and I'd get a few in the same month. I found out that bright light seemed to cause them so I took steps to reduce bright light and I got them less often.
Fast forward to now - I'm not 100% sure when it began but around April or so I began to feel slight dizziness and unbalance, most notably when I'd go into an elevator each morning at work. I began to notice each morning that it felt like I had a constant hangover with dizziness despite not drinking alcohol.
My dizziness has gotten progressively worse and consistent and the worse my dizziness is the more head fog I have - almost to the point of the inability to think. Episodes also seem to give me severe anxiety. It was bad enough that one day I went to urgent care. The Dr. said I had a Eustachian Tube Dysfunction and wrote me a script for Steroids and Dramamine. I felt good on the steroids but felt like [censored] again when I came off them. I went to my GP who suggested allergies since Steroids helped me and put me on Allegra and referred me to an ENT to check my ears. The ENT said I do not have any symptoms of allergies but did an audiology test and my ears checked out fine. The Dr. asked me if I had a history of migraines - to which I confirmed and he recommended I see a neurologist as migraines can cause dizziness even if you don't have a headache.
I'm a few weeks to a month from seeing a neurologist but I've been reading up and I have the symptoms of Vestibular Migraines or Migriane-Anxiety Redlated Dizziness except I seem to have a severe case of it where I have constant symptoms of Vertigo. Essentially, if you shake your head back and forth 20 times quickly and then stop - this is what I feel like pretty much 24/7 from when I wake up until I sleep. Every once in a while it will go away and I feel completely lucid and calm like I've never been better...only for it to return the next morning.
My symptoms are basically head fog, constant dizziness/unbalance with occasional one-two minute episodes of sharp headaches and anxiety. Has anyone dealt with this or something similar? I am curious to hear your experience and what your treatments/diagnosis were.