Dizziness Combined With Anxiety, A Common Problem Not Well Recognized In Healthcare – And What Can Be Done? Part 1

The following series of events describe the second most common inner ear balance problem⁽¹⁾…

Imagine you wake up one day with a sudden attack of dizziness, nausea, or vertigo, and end up in the emergency room. The doctors confirm you did not have a stroke or tumor and they send you home with nausea medication.

For the next 6 months⁽²⁾you feel dizzy, panicky, and anxious^(3-5) every time you walk. During those 6 months you see 8 different specialists with several brain scans,⁽¹⁾⁽⁶⁾ and tons of other medical tests, all of which tell you everything is normal⁽³⁾⁽⁷⁾ and there is nothing wrong with you. You can barely walk,⁽²⁾⁽⁴⁾ and basic things like going to the store or walking in a crowd^(2)(8)(9) is out of the question.

Your friends and family are beginning to think you are crazy, and even you are beginning to think you are crazy.

With this disorder there is no “lesion” in the brain to be seen on imaging, nor is there any medical test for it.⁽³⁾⁽⁷⁾ On top of that, the patients themselves often experience anxiety or panic with their dizziness,^(3-5) so they are often labeled as “crazy” or “malingering” (fancy medical word for faking it).

The people suffering from this disorder know there is something wrong, and their new debility,^(2)(8)(9) shortness of breath, and heart racing⁽⁹⁾ sends them seeing specialists such as cardiologists and pulmonologists.

Relatively young^(2-4)(7)(9) healthy individuals can end up avoiding leaving the house, shopping in stores, and crowded areas.^(2)(8)(9) They often walk very oddly, as if walking on ice⁽⁶⁾⁽⁹⁾ and actually walk better if they are distracted,⁽⁹⁾⁽¹⁾ all of which feed into the idea that they are crazy or faking it. But the people suffering from this condition are far from faking anything that they are experiencing, and they are not crazy.

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