Troubled
05-12-2013, 03:35 PM
Hi guys
Thought I'd finally go ahead and make an account to see if I can get some help from people in my situation..
A little background info.
I'm 23 years old. I'd been suffering from, and this is probably the best way that I can describe it myself, a sort of disequilibrium whilst walking/standing for about 2-3 years up until the middle of last year. It was always on and off, maybe a couple of days a week at most, particularly when it was hot or I was dehydrated, so I always tried to drink as much as possible and it didn't get to me much.
Come middle of last year, and things started to get a little worse. I started experiencing those symptoms on a daily basis. It would feel like I was walking on a bouncy castle - not a hard material. I began feeling dizzy too, and so went to the docs. I was prescribed some meds, but they did little to help.
After a few months of going back and forth, and also having a CT head scan which came back clean (I was experiencing shooting pains at this point) I was referred to the ENT clinic, and started vestibular rehabilitation.
Fast forward to today, and things are getting bleaker by the day. So far, I've been prescribed cyclizine, stemetil (which I didn't take because I was scared of the side effects), propranolol and lately bisoprolol (for palpitations/elevated heart rate).
My current symptoms include a (what I believe to be) a tension headache for about three weeks now from morning to night, fairly bad disequilibrium - every time I walk pretty much, strong/elevated heart beats throughout the day and particularly at night when I'm trying to sleep (especially bad because a bad nights sleep results in worse symptoms the next day), twitching, IBS, difficulty in concentration/cloudy feeling and a few other things that don't immediately come to mind.
Just the other day I agreed to a day out in the city centre - by the end of it it felt like the earth was moving pretty strongly beneath me with each step (kind of like the feeling at the top of an elevator).
What I find particularly saddening is that with other illnesses/diseases, you can tell people that you've got low blood pressure and so can't stand for long, or have diabetes and so are really tired etc. With dizziness etc they most likely think you're making it up or just being lazy and need to shake it off.
The reason why I've posted on these forums is because I think most of my symptoms are due to anxiety (?). The problem is I'm not directly worried about many things in my life - it's just feeling like this/not having a diagnosis that is treatable with obvious signs of progress that gets to me. There's a lot more I can share but I feel this is enough for a first post!
If you've read this far then I thank you; any words of wisdom would be appreciated.
Thought I'd finally go ahead and make an account to see if I can get some help from people in my situation..
A little background info.
I'm 23 years old. I'd been suffering from, and this is probably the best way that I can describe it myself, a sort of disequilibrium whilst walking/standing for about 2-3 years up until the middle of last year. It was always on and off, maybe a couple of days a week at most, particularly when it was hot or I was dehydrated, so I always tried to drink as much as possible and it didn't get to me much.
Come middle of last year, and things started to get a little worse. I started experiencing those symptoms on a daily basis. It would feel like I was walking on a bouncy castle - not a hard material. I began feeling dizzy too, and so went to the docs. I was prescribed some meds, but they did little to help.
After a few months of going back and forth, and also having a CT head scan which came back clean (I was experiencing shooting pains at this point) I was referred to the ENT clinic, and started vestibular rehabilitation.
Fast forward to today, and things are getting bleaker by the day. So far, I've been prescribed cyclizine, stemetil (which I didn't take because I was scared of the side effects), propranolol and lately bisoprolol (for palpitations/elevated heart rate).
My current symptoms include a (what I believe to be) a tension headache for about three weeks now from morning to night, fairly bad disequilibrium - every time I walk pretty much, strong/elevated heart beats throughout the day and particularly at night when I'm trying to sleep (especially bad because a bad nights sleep results in worse symptoms the next day), twitching, IBS, difficulty in concentration/cloudy feeling and a few other things that don't immediately come to mind.
Just the other day I agreed to a day out in the city centre - by the end of it it felt like the earth was moving pretty strongly beneath me with each step (kind of like the feeling at the top of an elevator).
What I find particularly saddening is that with other illnesses/diseases, you can tell people that you've got low blood pressure and so can't stand for long, or have diabetes and so are really tired etc. With dizziness etc they most likely think you're making it up or just being lazy and need to shake it off.
The reason why I've posted on these forums is because I think most of my symptoms are due to anxiety (?). The problem is I'm not directly worried about many things in my life - it's just feeling like this/not having a diagnosis that is treatable with obvious signs of progress that gets to me. There's a lot more I can share but I feel this is enough for a first post!
If you've read this far then I thank you; any words of wisdom would be appreciated.