Pulsating feeling in head - slight dizziness

I haven't taken my zoloft in 4 days and I started getting the same feeling yesterday! Glad to know I'm not crazy and it is from withdrawals.

I am getting this too and it can drive you crazy it feels like there is something in the back of your head. I have not been to the doctor yet but I am going to see about it. I had my tyhoride removed around 10 years ago and have to take thyroide replacement medication. However I dont think this is connected becasue this only started about 6 months back and it comes and goes, but it drives me nuts. I thought maybe it was an inner ear thing, i dont know but would like to know if you find out my email is carolyns@retracom.com

I have read all the posts because for about a week I have been suffering severely painful pains in my right temple. I get a burning feeling in my nose and behind my eye. Also, my face feels hot but no fever. The crucial pain will last a couple minutes buy I still have pressure pain for hours sometimes all day. Quick movements make my head hurt inside not just the right side. But that pain is a bad pressure feeling. Theres connections to almost everyone that suffers these as well. I was on Depekote for bipolar disorder and adopted talking it for months. I started taking it again and couldn't get a refill so after 2 weeks had to stop suddenly. I'd say these headaches started about a week after. At the same time I stored working and became a full time house wife and mother...big change for me, so I'm thinking anxiety. So between no medication for my bipolar disorder and feeling the anxiety I turned to smoking weed at night to calm me down. And help me sleep. I also have a history of dvt (deep vein thrombosis) but in the left groin area. Someone posted about dna changes...which might be possible, I'm in my mid 30s....onset of my change of life?? I'm confused and kind of scared because either way you look at it...it all goes back to neurological....and my biggest fear is I'm going to lose my mind. The pain is unbearable and really disrupting my life which I can not afford. So if there is anyone that had had any luck with a diagnosis please help with any answers... please

Did you ever figure out what it was? I have the same problem as you. It's scary. I feel like I'm not safe to drive. I lose my balance when it happens.

I have the same problem with the "woosh woosh" in my head. I have Reflex Sympathetic Dystrophy and have had it for 10 years with the "woosh woosh" starting 2 years ago. I take a grocery bag full of meds every month (Opana ER 40, Opana ER 20, Neurontin, Robaxin, Cymbalta (sp?), etc, etc, etc...). Personally, I HATE medicine and before I got RSD I wouldn't even take apirin. But, that's beside the point. The point is, that with all of that, I have deduced over the past 2 years that none of this has anything directly to do with the "woosh woosh" in my head. Let me explain what I think is the problem. Stress and lack of sleep.

Whether it be stress and lack of sleep from pain, a job, or some other condition, this is the basis. Say you have something similar to my condition. The pain causes stress, the stress causes lack of sleep, lack of sleep causes "woosh woosh". Stress can take many forms, anxiety, depression, etc, and that stress causes sleep problems. Some of us seem to experience this "woosh woosh" and dizziness as if we had not slept for days at a time (which can give you the same effect).

I'm going to address different things I've seen here and try to help the best I can...

I take cymbalta for neurological pain, anxiety, and depression, and it helps somewhat with those problems. I have noticed that if I miss a dose the "woosh woosh" starts. I do not think it is the drug causing the problem, it is the stress and lack of sleep I have when not taking it.

As far as our friends in the military go, lack of sleep is a huge problem caused by different things. Sometimes your training dictates that you learn to sleep less, the problem is that we are not clones of each other and some with certain physiological make-ups have problems with a lack of sleep. Thus the "woosh woosh" and dizziness.

For those of us in pain from one condition or another, we all suffer from sleeping problems. The pain just won't allow us to have a normal sleep schedule. Because of our brains having to deal with pain AND lack of sleep, our brains become confused and act as if we never sleep and give us the warning conditions associated with it, the "woosh woosh" and dizziness.

For those of you who say you are totally healthy, how healthy is your sleep schedule? How much stress do you have at work or in other parts of your life? As I stated earlier, stress can affect your sleep, and even if you think you are getting plenty of sleep that sleep can be fitful and somewhat useless to your body and mind.

Some have said that solar flares make it worse and this actually makes sense even though it seems way out there. The solar flares affect the Earth's magnetosphere. The signals our brain sends to the rest of our body are electromagnetic and are basically what makes us animated and thinking beings. So, when the Earth's magnetosphere is affected, so are we, as we live on the Earth and magnetic forces act on each other. For instance, I have noticed that I am in more pain from the RSD during high solar activity. ;) So, you're not crazy. :)

For the people that said they take Ecstasy. Ecstasy excites certain centers of the brain, the centers that effect sensation. Heightened physical sensation causes sleeplessness and is probably why you get the "woosh woosh" problem.

The couple who had various scans if their brain and problems were found. Personally, I don't think the problem that most people here talk about are due to some "brain ailment". That being said, it was sort of good that you had a "whooshing problem and had those tests done, it discovered something that you needed taken care of that could lead to worse problems later and that's a good thing. Count yourself lucky, not because of your ailment, but because it was found and can now be treated. :)

Something we can do to combat this, since most medical doctors are idiots and have no idea what to do about a "new" condition if they haven't read about it in a medical journal, is to try to find some way to sleep better. I would suggest going to an Asian doctor and herbalist. Asian doctors have been studying our body's energy for a LONG time and know much more about how the body's energy flows than American doctors. Our stress affects how our body's move that energy around and that causes sleep problems.

I'm no doctor, but I have a brain, and I would suggest taking melatonin. Melatonin is a natural thing our bodies produce to help with sleep. You can find it in the vitamin isle in your local supermarket or pharmacy. It has NO adverse side effects and WILL help you get a good sleep which, in my unprofessional opinion, will stop the "woosh woosh" and dizziness for those that have this problem because of lack of a good sleep.

Well, after writing you a book, I'm going to take my own advice and get some good sleep due to melatonin. ;) Good luck to all and I hope this helps you. :)

I have the same problem. When I try to lift something from the ground i feel pulses just like electric pulses in the rith side of head, back side of neck and back side of my eye and aslo have some pain and some times my eye goes blind for 5 or 10 minutes and i cant see anything with right eye. It remains for 3 or 4 hours and some times for the whole day, im having this from last 2 years and no medicine works. But i have found that it's just due to too much burden on mind, keeping your mind too much bussy the whole day and waking all the night and sleeping at day time and lack of exercise. The main thing is we have this by distubing our routine. Sleep in night and get up early in the morning can help this and try to sleep for atleast 8 hours . Hope this will help some.

I have the same problem. I woke one morning a literally passed out and couldn't get up. My blood pressure dropped later on. I got tested for thyroid, diabetes, nothing has come back. I don't think it's anxiety. I don't think it's DSM worthy to pass out, and have a BP drop. I also get the dizzies, and short of breath when walking. I'm going for another round of tests. It's so upsetting as I have to go to work soon and my job rquires standing for long hours wokring 56 hours a week, I don't know if I can do it. If there is a pill I can take at this point to make it go away I will, but my doctor hasn't found anything. My left brain started pulsating two days ago. I am only 30 years old, in good shape, work out regurarly with a healthy diet and suppliments. So frustrating, I have started praying and i'm not religious. Hope you all have found some answers.

I have had that pulsating/vibrating whooshing feeling in my head, hands, arms and chest very intensely, and it is usually after prescription amphetamines (amphetamines are also in ecstasy you took, so I do think it has something to do with being a trigger).

I too had Vertigo several months ago. I went to physical therapy after several weeks of medicine and it worked!!  Just this week though, I have babysitting my 8 month old granddaughters and I notice when my my head goes into different positions, i.e sit to lay down, sitting to standing...there is a moment of dizziness. It worries me holding my babies...tho...I make myself stand still until the dizzy goes away....I am supposed to take care of these 8 mo. old girls for three more weeks...but I am worried that I may fall.

 

Paxit and Zoloft is for nerves, it shouldn't have anything to do with your dizziness. Vertigo is a misplaced "crystal" from your inner ear that puts you into a different place with head spins, and dizziness. I am just wondering what kind of doctor I should see?

I to am suffering from these symptoms, whooshing in my head, sight and hearing pulsating even my lips throb.  Also I have been having alot of unsteadiness mainly thinking I'm going to fall to the left.  The other day I actually couldn't work out which road to take and this has really scared me.  I have described this awful feeling to my GP and he said something about the carotid artery in my neck, I have now been referred to ENT dept. in hospital, I just wish I could find the reason why I feel this way.  I also suffer from Fibromyalgia, Underactive Thyroid and High Blood Pressure.

My doctors have associated this sensation and other things with anxiety. I've had thyroid checks and EKGs and Halter Monitors and they all came out normal. I was diagnosed with generalized anxiety disorder when I was a child and do experience panic attacks from time to time, but I refused for the longest time to believe that these pulsing feelings could be related to anxiety. I was convinced it had to my heart or electrolytes, but when exams came out normal and electrolytes were checked there was no other explanation for my case. Basically, this is what happens (oh, and it can last for 30 minutes to on and off for hours at a time for a couple weeks for me):

general light-headedness/feeling unsteady

pulsating feeling (that is not in time with my heart) throughout my head, torso, arms, sometimes hands and chin/lower facial area sometimes accompanied with a numb/tingling feeling

clammy/sweaty/cold skin

 

I also thought it could be my blood sugar because my blood sugar gets really low if i don't eat every few hours and when that happens I feel lightheaded, unsteady, sweaty BUT my heart is racing and i feel faint and dizzy and start to see green/black dots if i don't eat something or take a couple glucose tablet quickly. But, when the pulsating feeling would happen for weeks at a time i had blood work and my sugar was fine. basically, I've come to accept that it's just somatic symptoms from anxiety. Clonazepam does help it but not entirely as somatoform symptoms cannot be addressed by just a benzodiazepine drug a lot. To back up the fact that it may be related to anxiety even more, it has always happened if I've missed 4 or 5 days of my Paxil 80mg. While I take this medication for depression, it is also used to treat generalized anxiety disorder amongst other things so it kind of makes sense that those symptoms would present if I am unable to take my meds for 4 or 5 days.

Hope this helps if examinations and tests haven't explained this feeling for you.

Late reaction here, but its similar with me.
Also took something to calm me down, but started a new job so wanted to feel sharp and on top of my game so I quite taking the medication, I have similair symptoms, when I move I sometimes get this electric whoozz in my head and it lingers out to my legs and arms sometimes, makes me feel like im about to collapse for just a few seconds at most.
Really feel theres a correlation between quiting the medication and the symptoms, going to take a small dose of it agian see if that makes a change.
Thank you all for sharing....

Btw, like others here, I was taking Zoloft, gonna take a half dose to see if it helps, I quite taking it from one day to another

i got my iron and b12 levels checked, and they were both deficient. all symptoms gone after proper treatment. It could be vitiman deficits.