Weak neck, dizzy, fatigued, heavy head, feel sick

I also have constant dizziness. I am an extremely anxious person and I am now fearing the worst: brain tumour, cancer etc.

I feel some difficulty in looking up like my head is too heavy and my vision is slightly blurred, like what I'm looking at can't keep up with my eyes. I have feelings of not being grounded, like I'm not part of my surroundings. I also feel extremely tired all the time, like I can't get enough sleep. I have occassional head aches, but they aren't my main concern. My main concern is the constant disorientation and dizziness, i feel like I'm dying and I am so on edge :(

I will be going to my doctors soon, but in the mean time it would be good for some advice on what this is... I really hope it's just anxiety and nothing medically serious.

Well i guess i am screwed up then. I dont have money for all these tests. I hope i just dont wake up tomorrow anymore..

It is the muscles in your neck being torn from the chiropractor. It is like that for me. Found them very useless, did more harm than good and I saw one for a few years. Those people need to be sued and put out of business as well as every car needs to have a HANS device like they use in nascar. Sounds like you had an old wiplash injury that head a certain way and when they try to straighten it out again it makes the MUSCLES in your neck strain and spasm and cramp up. Just dont sit on the computer so much, go walk ride a bike whatever you can do.

I have the same thing

I too have/had weak neck muscles. Chiropractor and deep tissue massage helped. But what really helped me was neck exercises that I learned from both Chiropractor and massage people.

Sitting position for all and do slowly at first and only move head to what feels comfortable - do not strain neck to look up to ceiling - over time your neck should move further up and down etc. :
tilt head up towards ceiling then tilt down towards floor then back up to ceiling etc - 10 times.
move head to the left then right, back to left etc (as far as able without hurting self) 10 times.
Then the tough one (I had to start with my feet wide apart while sitting due to dizziness ) rotate head in a circle - meaning turn head to right as far as comfortable then move head up towards ceiling then slowly move head towards left side then move head down to look at floor then back to right side where started.. 10 times, then reverse. This helped me immensely. I still do this daily, if I forget for some time this returns.. for five minutes a day this exercise keeps my neck healthy.
You will notice in few days if this is helping you.
Good luck

Same feeling here for about 10 years ,I keep searching to find a cure for myself but always end up with nothing that helps dizzy,heavy head feeling,anxiety constant since I was 15 now 45,panic attacks,I do have palpatations been to cardiologist everything normal,I do have bulging disk c-6 c-7and ever since I have left chest pain left arm goes numb along with pinkie and ring finger so I would never know if I was having a heart attack with those symptoms always there been to er for it and first it was gerd then it was just palpatations and anxiety hate to hear other people suffer from this but I'm glad that I'm not alone

Careful with the Anxiety thing. I have the EXACT same feelings as you, everyday, even as i write this, i lost my job over it cause i kept almost passing out in the kitchen about a month ago for what seems like NO reason. my blood tests are fine, i drink copious amounts of water ( i worked in a kitchen) i eat regularly. I have Anxiety but i honestly think it's something else making my Anxiety worse.

as soon as i told my family dr about my symptoms, the weakness, the vertigo, the feeling like passing out, without doing any tests he jumped right to " it's anxiety take anti-depressants" i refused ant-depressants cause i've seen first hand what they do to people ( mental illness runs in my family ) and instead he gave me .5mg Ativan which worked for a while ( been diagnosed with anxiety for about 4 years now) but eventually Ativan stops working and they have to increase the dosage and it eventually gets to a point where you're dependent on the pill. (i'm at 1mg a day now,**he also never told me he was upping my dose, he just did it, and i started cutting them in half but they weren't working to i gave in and took the whole thing** but I want to slowly taper off as i've been taking the pill almost everyday for about 3 years and do NOT want to go through withdraws )

DON'T FOR THE LOVE OF GOD TAKE ATIVAN,

they say it's safe but it's actually REALLY hard to get off Ativan once it's been in your system for so long, the withdraws have been compared to getting off Heroin ( mind you at .5mg-1mg a day you probably won't feel the withdraws too hard compared to someone who takes 3mg 3 times a day or more will have a LOT harder time kicking the habit)

anyways, i recently went to a walk in clinic and when i told my dr about almost passing out for no reason and not recovering from it ( i still feel like it every day since it happened ) she said feeling this Vertigo/weak unbalanced is NOT normal for Anxiety and when i told her my head feels heavy in the back and my left ear pops or throbs when i hear loud noises she agreed that I probably have 2 different things going on, and what ever the first thing is it's effecting my Anxiety and making it worse.

So I'd recommend getting your ears checked by an ENT ( got my appointment October 31st..i know, long wait..) there's many ear diseases that many people don't even know they may have that have the EXACT same effects as Anxiety and or cause Anxiety

example: Ménière’s Disease.
symptoms:
balance disturbance
dizziness,
lightheadedness
headache,
increased ear pressure
hearing loss or tinnitus increase
sound sensitivity
vague feeling of uneasiness
anxiety,
fear
diarrhea
blurry vision or eye jerking
nausea and vomiting
cold sweat,
palpitations or rapid pulse
trembling
unsteadiness (sudden falls, staggering or stumbling, difficulty turning or walking in poorly lit areas, tendency to look down or to grope for stable handholds)
vision difficulties (problems with blurring, bouncing, depth perception, glare intensification, focusing, watching movement; difficulty looking through lenses such as binoculars or cameras)

just to name a few..

don't jump right into Ativans and Anti-depressants because they can do far more harm to you than good.

Hi all,

My symptoms started in January 2015 - not fall-on-the-floor dizzy but enough to know something wasn't right. It accompanied nausea a lot of the time, sitting here completely miserable or at the dinner table completely miserable, testy with my kids because I felt COMPLETE MISERABLE. Also, I'm generally a tired person, able to nap at will for as far back as I can remember. I'd yawn during drives to and from work and then throughout the day. I could fall asleep at a stop light if I wanted to, while on the toilet if I wanted to, and at night, it's instantaneous.

It got pretty bad so here's what I did. I've seen a cardiologist and it didn't turn up much, aside from verification that my blood pressure was high (145-150 over 95-100 for a 36-year-old). My PCP sent me to an ENT who tested my ears and everything checked out OK (despite my tinnitus). I went to a neurologist who tried to recreate the feeling but couldn't. When I told him that I felt better (better, not perfect) when I was active, he thought it might be sleep-related. He believed that even more so when I said I felt better at night, that that was in line with the body's circadian rhythm.

I went to a sleep study, sleeping from 10:30pm to 5:30am while being hooked up to a million wires. Then I was challenged to nap five times - at 7, 9, 11, 1 and 3 - and I went 5 for 5. That shocked friends. You can do that? Nap like that? My thought was "you can't?"

Between the weight and the lack of sleep (6-7 hours a night or so), not only did he deem me severely sleep deprived but through the testing found that I was taking in far less oxygen than I should be while sleeping. He recommended I get a CPAP machine, which I did, but after a few weeks, I decided that it didn't make much of a difference. What HAS is this ...

I dropped 15 pounds. I'm training for a marathon, having run 18 miles this past Saturday. I'm getting to sleep earlier. I'm trying to eat a little better (typed as I devour a couple Oreos that a co-worker just passed me ... gulp). I feel MUCH better. I'm not out of the woods yet at all, but the feeling of dizziness and nausea consumed me for half a year. Now I'm only reminded about it occasionally. I'm going to keep working at this.

I don't know if this is the answer to your problem, but I'm hoping it is, or that it can at least improve your quality of life like it has mine. Six to seven hours may be enough for some, but it wasn't for me. I'm doing better.

"We are not healthy unless our sleep is healthy, and we cannot make our sleep healthy unless we become thoroughly aware of both its peril and its promise."

Try it.

Same here. I'm only frustrated because if I tell doctors they'll say anxiety

I know you posted a long time ago, but have you ever considered an autoimmune disease such as rheumatoid arthritis? You may just have it in your neck now, but consider the fatigue a symptom not necessarily caused by your neck pain. The doctor can do a blood test to check your ANA, etc.

Everyone please consider Neck Isometric exercises.All the synptoms are because the neck area through which all the importqnt blood vessels/nerve etc pass is weak and hence the load of the neck is coming on to muscles.I ahev had the same problem and now it is 90% treated.
 , i know the symptoms are generally scary but its not that big a deal.All you have do is strengthen the neck and posture.

 

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I have had the same problems I now see and upper cranial chiropractor who is certified NUCCA seeing all the other regular chiropractors over the last 5 years has made no difference but just two treatments with this cranial chiropractor has been SO helpful I am going to continue to go this route. Look up on YouTube under upper cranial chiropractic and you could watch some videos of what they do and how they've helped people. I live in Arizona and they're only six in my state. Good luck hope you feel better soon. Nancy

I had these same symptoms occur after the birth of my son. Did you find that this was related to that? Did you get a diagnosis?

Just firing out possibilities.

I'm the weight-loser from a couple months ago. Just an update: I started to feel a little woozy again for a bit (not nearly as bad as before), went to my PCP and she gave me some blood pressure meds and I started doing neck stretches. A decent few days to a week since.

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Hi there. Have you managed to stay feeling healthy for the past few weeks now?