Light Head, Blurred Vision, Tingling Hands, caffiene?

also I was sweating profusely after the second black out. the lucid dream theory isn't accurate either since I did several reality checks after that.... counted fingers, checked time, etc.... everything was normal just weird because I fell asleep to wake up.

Good Advice! I'm going to START with the WATER at this very moment --- Lots of good info on this site -- but this one hit me square on --- like a BIG BANG! Like a shot gun going off in my mind! B I N G O ! This will Definitely be the FIRST THING I act on - and INSTANTLY! SOMETHING just tells me you hit the Mark! Thanks so much!

80% of all illnesses are anxiety related. You very well can be hyperventilating. Buy an O2 saturation monitor, you can pick one up at Walmart for $45.00. When you feel weak, dizzy, etc. check your O2 sat, maybe you are hyperventilating. If so, carry a paper bag and breath into it until you feel better, a few minutes should do it. If it's a panic attack then sit down and relax, nothing is going to happen to you. It's a response to too many adrenilin episodes. At a certain point, after numerous adrenalin episodes your brain starts shooting out adrenalin on it's own. That fight or flight feeling will pass, the important thing is you have control over it, if you relax and stay calm. 

MK Mason RN

Hi im 47 an ive been having this numbness around lips an hands/fingers an i get real dizzy an feel faint  on an off for about 3 years now i have told my family doctor an i have also went to the E.R but all my test came back good i don't drink alcohol an just started drinking coffee after the episodes started i can just be sitting around when it happens just starts all at once but now it has been happening a lot on mothers day it was happening when i woke up first my lips got numb then the dizziness then my hands got numb it would only last a few min. but was getting that feeling every 10 min. after i felt normal after about 2 hours of that i started to have blackouts or something every thing went black an then back to normal within sec. i did that about 3 times in a row i  was so tired after that happen just like i was giving sleeping meds i went to the E.R an they say all the labs came back good im still having all the weird feelings an my vision is still blurred an its been over a week since the blackout thing im being treated for panic attacks an this is not the same feeling as a panic attack sounds the same but its not at all the same

This is a great forum as I just googled the symptoms I was experiencing earlier this evening (tingling in extremities, clammy hands, general panic) and it was probably due to drinking too much coffee today and not enough water to balance it out. I walked it off and feel a little better. Good to know I'm not alone.

Great advice, A*

Try giving up Caffeine and Salt for a week

I'm 31 now, and have been having numbness in my right arm since I was 16. It would feel like a dead weight and I wouldn't be able to really control it for about 30 seconds. As I went into college, I noticed my right leg has also been going numb along with my arm. This is not the tingly sensation, but an actual numbness. I realized that it may be just the right side of my body and when it happens, my head gets really fuzzy and I can't really think straight. Sometimes the episodes can be really debilitating that I have to lie down as I lose control of my right side of the body. Sometimes my arm even twitches by itself. I went to see some doctors and they couldn't really find anything wrong with me or diagnose the situation.
I, along with everyone else, drink coffee, but in the last month I tried eliminating all caffeine intake. This includes coffee, tea, chocolates, soda, etc. I'm not 100% off, maybe one night I'll drink some light tea, other times I may crave a few bites for Girl Scout cookies. However I have noticed a decrease in the numbness. It hasn't gone away completely, because I also think extreme stress on the body is also related, like if I'm exerting a lot on my body during a hot day.
I would have everyone try cutting caffeine out for a month. And I mean any sort of caffeine and see if it helps. It can't hurt.

I would look closely at the stomach and cervical spine. I believe I narrowed mine down to a slight pinched nerve and small hiatal hernia. The hernia didn't show up on any scans but did show up via an upper endo. The vagal nerve is a b***h in particular. In my case the added pinch nerve in my neck (slight degeneration c4-c5) just compounds it. Good luck out there, it's a terrible condition that will confuse doctors and really hold you back from living a normal life. Try benadryl as a safe alternative to anti-anxiety drugs...it helps calm down the neevous system.

Hi there
I'm 37 and I have similar symptoms I just come from emergency room they did all of text they all come normal I think all this coues stress anxiety ,

well i am one of the most laid back people i know but with deep deep hidden stress and things that set it off. I am so use to dealing with it by ignoring it that maybe thats a sign its still in me. Thanks for your reply.

Over the past month I have been getting some cold brew coffee from a local shop. The first time a few hours after I felt nausea and dizziness but it went away shortly after. I thought a disc in my neck was causing it since it's herniated. Second time a few hours after I got really bad dizziness all of a sudden and feeling like I was going to be sick. Odd thing is, I had eaten lunch after the coffee. The third time which was yesterday was the worse: I had a coffee from the same shop and a few hours later I started to feel dizziness, tingling in both hands and face. It slowly got worse and my neighbor had to take me to the VA ER. They ran a lot of test and while doing it I kept feeling super dizzy, hands were tingling and numb like crazy and my face was numb. I kept feeling like I was going to pass out and they said my face was white. They gave me an IV and monitored for a few hours. My wife showed up and she said my face was white was well. The next few hours were hell and the feeling of being out of control was horrible. I had never had theee symptoms this bad before. Again, I thought it was the herniated disc in my neck as I felt tingling in the lower part of my neck too. Was it the caffeine? Did I have what people call a "panic attack?". Is it the herniated disc? Another odd thing is that I had a cold brew coffee from another store last week and didn't get any symptoms. Maybe the cold brew at the other shop is stronger? I know that I'm not drinking anymore coffee just to see if the symptoms subsided and disappear. That way I will know for sure what it is. That feeling of being out of control was horrible and frightening. Worse feeling ever.

I get dizzy, have loose vision, and become numb in my face (my nose and lips ) and hands. It happens every few years. What is causing it?