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Dizziness and nauseasness?
I've been having dizzy spells and nausea on and off for about a month now. It comes and goes sometimes lasting a few minutes to a couple of days. I've been to three doctors and they all said there is nothing wrong me. I've been to my regular doctor that said I had vertigo and rescribed meclizine. That did not help at all, I went to an ear and nose specialist, he said I had impacted earwax which he removed, I thought that would help me but it did not. Saturday I had a bad episode and I almost passed out. I went to the ER and they did all types of exams. EKG, blood work, catscan, chest x-rays, and they said I'm fine, yet it's now Monday and I'm still dizzy and light headed. It has not gone away since Saturday. Is there anyone that can give me some insight on what I should do next, has anyone gone through the same thing? Any help would be appreciated. Thank you.
5 Answers
- SadieLv 44 years ago
If blood work was done, it's probably not low blood sugar. It may be caused by simple anxiety which is caused by stress. Anxiety can cause you to feel dizzy & nauseous. There are meds that can help.
- CamLv 64 years ago
There's a lot of things that can cause dizziness.
First, have your vitamin levels and blood sugar checked. If you are not eating well, try and make sure you get enough to eat throughout the day.
And follow up with the ENT doctor, they might be willing to do further workups and check your inner ear since the wax removal did not help. If the ENT has not and will not do inner ear checks when your symptoms are this significant, switch doctors. This isn't dangerous testing and most other doctors will want it done before checking for many other causes too.
There are a ton of less common causes of dizziness, it's a very broad symptom. Environmental causes (mold & carbon monoxide are common ones), symptoms of a wide variety of infections or other diseases, malfunction of the autonomic nervous system, and many, many other things can cause dizziness that might not show up on some initial testing.
Nobody gets severe dizziness for no reason, and even if this were psychological, it wouldn't mean you were making it up, just that its cause was mental rather than physical. If you have a dissociative disorder or find these symptoms usually occur when you are dealing with severe stress or trauma, are accompanied by things like feeling disconnected or outside of your body, or are accompanied by panic attacks that's really the only reasons why I'd think to look into psychological causes so quickly instead of less common physical ones. And even then, you could be having a physical problem even if you also had a psychological condition that causes similar symptoms in some people.
- BluntLv 74 years ago
You need to consult a neurologist
You need an EEG ( electroencephalogram). Dizzy spells where cardiac, vascular, ear canal, or sugar levels issues have been ruled out are signs of Epilepsy. Those are small partial seizures. First it is just the dizziness, then it turns to dizziness near fainting, then to dizziness, near faiting and eye fluterring/slurred soeech/involuntary arm jerks and the last stage is a tonic clonic seizure.
Get an EEG.
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