I had two car crashes when I was 17 and am now turning 40. I regularly waken with severe headaches and dizziness is present through the day. I am a physical massage therapist and the only thing that helps me is to lie on top of a considerably hot water bottle for 20 minutes at a time. I then use thyme and geranium oils into the back of my neck and right under the skull where the vertbrae align. May sound crazy, but have regular leg massages. In my opinion, the tension that builds up in the calfs, hams and quads can inbalance the spine causing trauma thoughout the whole spine.
Somatics is another good source of release. You can access it on youtube free.
I`m going to try Tai Chi next :-)
Somatics is another good source of release. You can access it on youtube free.
I`m going to try Tai Chi next :-)
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I have the same problem, it is my neck over componsating for other vertebrea and subluxations, keep a regular routine with you r chiropractor. And I mean regular, you may have to see him a few times a month. Get the MRI done of your spine, You may have a disc pinching some where causing your neck to over componsate, if you have to be on your computer everyday for hrs make sure your keyboard is chest level and your monitor is head level So that you are not constantly looking down. and when you are driving make sur you are sitting in pretty much the same position up right not layed back and use both habds on the wheel on 3 and 6, yes these road rules were made for good posture so that you do not become strained on long drives and pass out from dizziness. By the way, Doctors like to pass everything off as anxiety because they get free gifts dinners and trips from the companies that make Zoloft and other anxiety meds. So yes, they here all of your stories and think you are STRESSED when you are not, you are only stressed now because of the scary issue happening to you. My dotor finally witnessed for herself what I have been going through, my neck tightens up, then my proper breathing seems tight, then all my muscles in my back and sides tighten and constrict my ribs from expanding the way they are suppossed to which causes the nausia dizziness, and even tremors and fainting.
:-) I hope that helps all of you a little. If you are on anti depressants or anxiety medicine and you feel like a zombie or do not feel any better than you should not be taking them period. Those pills will work for people who actually need them, they make people who don't feel worse.
:-) I hope that helps all of you a little. If you are on anti depressants or anxiety medicine and you feel like a zombie or do not feel any better than you should not be taking them period. Those pills will work for people who actually need them, they make people who don't feel worse.
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Get an MRI of your brain. Please. Not just to the editor of this post but to anybody else reading this if you have those symptoms as well. A lot of what you're talking about sounds like it could be caused by a tumor. I have had many of those symptoms and just associated it with stress/posture/diet/strain ect.... and had a routine CT scan done. An abnormality was found and I was given an MRI to confirm the diagnosis. Too many times people are brushed off or called a hypochondriac when suspecting they may have a tumor.
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I too have had and do have those symptoms and they include body pain, also feeling as though I'm walking ahead of myself, just not feeling good.. I found an answer!!!! ***this post is edited by moderator *** *** web
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This is upper cervical care, not traditional chiropractic. It is amazing and I promise you, you will feel better. I know now that I have to continue my care or start with the same symptoms again it's not fun. Anxiety being one, heaviness, fatigue, balance issues etc... this is the only thing that helped..
Check it out..
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This all sounds way to familiar.. I am sorry to say but it sounds like y'all have Lupus.. What state or states dooes everyone live in? I live in Oklahoma and since I moved here three years ago I have felt sick like this.
Sick of feeling like I am about to die..
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OK here I am.
It seems I have an idea about this one.
I feel all of those symptoms from the past and even now. But what I noticed is that I can feel my neck/head heaviest when I am stressed.
Come to think of this:
One one, I take a cup coffee. After about an hour while watching tv, I feel dizzy. My mind told me that I have a brain tumor, it drives me irrational and have panic attack. Then I feel my neck and head to feed heavy. This symptom goes for almost a week, but something interesting happened.
Hehe...
I went to a physician, and tell her all my symptoms;anxiety,heavy neck with pressure, hard to breath. But she said it is 80% sure it is just anxiety. I accepted her diagnosis. What did happened next?
Almost all my symptoms are gone just after she said that.
Ok, I said I can feel the symptoms until now. And I am pretty sure it is because of my stress in school, after two days of feeling overworked. What did happen next?...The symptoms came back for the first time after three weeks.
I once read an article saying:
"The connection of mind and body is too much powerful that what patients are complaining to their doctors are almost 70% caused by their psychological thinking."
PS: I have the symptoms for 4 years when I feel stressed, and got better now. The only difference is that I have derealization disorder . Search for that if youre interested.
It seems I have an idea about this one.
I feel all of those symptoms from the past and even now. But what I noticed is that I can feel my neck/head heaviest when I am stressed.
Come to think of this:
One one, I take a cup coffee. After about an hour while watching tv, I feel dizzy. My mind told me that I have a brain tumor, it drives me irrational and have panic attack. Then I feel my neck and head to feed heavy. This symptom goes for almost a week, but something interesting happened.
Hehe...
I went to a physician, and tell her all my symptoms;anxiety,heavy neck with pressure, hard to breath. But she said it is 80% sure it is just anxiety. I accepted her diagnosis. What did happened next?
Almost all my symptoms are gone just after she said that.
Ok, I said I can feel the symptoms until now. And I am pretty sure it is because of my stress in school, after two days of feeling overworked. What did happen next?...The symptoms came back for the first time after three weeks.
I once read an article saying:
"The connection of mind and body is too much powerful that what patients are complaining to their doctors are almost 70% caused by their psychological thinking."
PS: I have the symptoms for 4 years when I feel stressed, and got better now. The only difference is that I have derealization disorder . Search for that if youre interested.
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Wow, I can't believe I made this thread a little over 4 years ago! Sorry I make my posts so long, it's just so hard to describe it in a short post. I am still experiencing the same problems.... It's gotten really bad as of the last 6-12 months or so, I can't even rememeber. It's like I've almost gotten used to the feeling, so for a while somewhere during that 4 year time-frame when I wrote this post, there where some times where it wasn't that bad (or I just gotten so used to it that I didn't notice). But now it's really bad again. Since I wrote this post, I've been in 2 more car accidents. Worst part is neither of them where my fault either.
My neck still feels extremely weak, stiff, and it feels like my neck is too weak to support my head. From my research, it seems like perhaps it's the SCM muscle that is messed up. My symptoms still include: foggy head, feeling in a dream like state, dizziness/major balance problems (always bump into things), ear pain on and off and sometimes ear ringing, sinus problems, lower back pain, pain sometimes behind eyes, lower back feels like it's literally "twisted", eye problems - eyes become disoriented feeling causing me to feel more out of it. Sometimes my eyes feel so disoriented that it makes me feel dizzy. When my neck is feeling extremely weak/stiff, that's when I get all those side effects. The more weaker or stiff my neck feels, the more I feel those symptoms I listed above.
I try to self-massage every-day. Hardly helps. Weird thing is I can feel tingling in my back, and neck area when I do some heavy self messaging around my spine and under my shoulder blades on my back. I mean like digging my nails in kind of massage, that's the only way I feel it. I'm not sure if the tingling feeling means I'm actually relaxing the muscle and is a good thing, or if it's a bad thing. No idea. Problem is it doesn't really get rid of any my symptoms or make me feel better - it just helps my neck feel SLIGHTLY less stiff, but then in exchange my neck starts to feel more weak instead of stiff. Guess I just can't win.
So far I started to see a chiropractor regularly starting about 6 months or so ago. I told him all my symptoms. He also said he could tell my neck was pretty stiff. But all he did was adjustments, saying hopefully that should correct the problem. I ended up doing about probably close to a total of 10 adjustments with the chiropractor and one deep tissue massage, and still wasn't getting any improvement. The ONLY difference I felt after the adjustment was again a tingling like feeling in either my neck and/or back. Not sure if that means the adjustment worked and relaxed my muscles, or if it's a bad sign. So I stopped going. He even said I perhaps should see a neurologist since the adjustments weren't helping. So I did. He didn't pay attention hardly at all when I went to see him, (probably cause I'm a young kid and he's thinking oh whatever you are just imagining it). He did order an MRI, though. MRI of the cervical spine, and MRI of the brain. (which I assume includes the neck too). The only thing is he ordered it WITHOUT contrast. Could this make something not show up? Anyway this is what the results said:
MRI results impression: MRI of brain - Unremarkable MRI of the brain. particularly without acute or chronic intracranial injury. There is a small retention cyst in the inferior aspects of the maxillary sinuses consistent with mild chronic inflammatory changes. The remainder of the para-nasal sinuses and mastoid air cells are clear.
MRI results impression of Cervical spine: 1.) Minimal, if any, degenerative changes of the C3-4 disk space without evidence of nerve root impingement or cord compression. 2.) Straightening of the cervical curvature, question muscle spasm versus positioning. Clinical correlation is advised.
3.) The remainder of the exam is normal.
So all he did was give me a muscle relaxant. He wasn't even considered about my sinus problems (my sinuses have gotten so bad that I have post-nasal drip nearly 24-7, causing me to gag and sometimes vomit). Even though the MRI showed something wrong with my sinuses. The muscle relaxant he gave me was called "Baclofen". Up to 60MG daily. It doesn't seem to help at all. The ONLY medication that ever helped was clonazepam. (generic for Klonopin). It helped reduce my symptoms by I'd say about 50%, so where I could live at least some-what normally. The muscle spasms and weakness where greatly reduced by the clonazepam. But that only lasted for 1-2 months, then it stopped helping. I still take it, but all it does is help with my anxiety, doesn't provide anymore muscle relaxant effect sadly. The only medication that works, my body builds a tolerance to it without a couple months and now I'm back to where I started..... Sigh.
So the list of medications, vitamins, and treatments I've tried are:
1. Clonazapem (muscle relaxant). Worked for 2 months then my body became used to it and stopped working.
2. Baclofen (muscle relaxant). No noticeable effect at all. It just made me feel almost drunk the first time I took it. Very weird.... Kept trying it for a few weeks, and still no improvement. In fact, a few times it made me feel WORSE (at least I believe, unless something else caused it) since my neck started to feel very very weak, and my best guess is the muscle relaxant caused my neck to become even more weak.
3. Vicodin (prescribed by my dentist for yet another problem, tooth infection). This helped with the pain, but only that. Didn't help reduce muscle weakness or spasms.
4. Seeing chiropractor for about maybe 10 visits approximatively getting adjustment each time. No improvement really.
5. Seeing a neurologist who ordered the MRI and gave me Baclofen, and then pretty much just said that was all he could really do. No help there.
6. Tried the natural herb Valerian root of muscle relaxation. Doesn't work. Tried probably half of all the available over-the counter creams/lotions that help for relieving pain, spasms, etc from the store and NONE of them work.
7. Tried trying a heat pad for neck. DID NOT WORK AT ALL. In fact, afterwords when I took it off and went outside, I felt EXTREMELY disoriented, felt like in a dream and that nothing was real. No idea why that happened. Perhaps it relaxed my muscle too much, and since my muscles are very weak, perhaps relaxing them is actually a bad idea?
8. ALL kinds of vitamins, and VERY high quality ones too - no cheap man-made vitamins. Tried taking regullary all these vitamins: a very good B-Complex Vitamin with all the b vitamins, plenty of Vitamin D, calcium, magnesium, vitamins for muscle/tissue joint repair and function, and also a multi-vitamins that has all of them from A to Z. Nothing helped. I thought taking the magnesium/vitamin D/calcium combo would work, but nope, nothing.. So it must be much more complex than a simple lack of vitamins.
Anyone have any recommendations? Right now all I can think of is seeing perhaps a pain specialist, like someone mentioned earlier in this thread, and perhaps getting one of those anti-inflammatory injections into the neck/back area would help. For all I know I could have major inflammation in my neck/back area, so perhaps those injections are the only way. I mean I don't know what else to try.
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I just started having these same symptoms about 3 weeks ago. Possibly by coincidence, it started to occur along with a dry cough, rash, and fever that have now been diagnosed as valley fever. I am being treated for the valley fever, and my neck symptoms have seen some improvements, but the neck muscle weakness, fatigue and occasional dizziness remain. Has anybody explored prolotherapy as a treatment for this issue?
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I have had terrible problems with stress in the past...recently (past year) I had problems with acne that just weren't
going away,and the antibiotics (Monodox) I was taking for the acne were doing nothing to clear it up...this has caused
me alot of stress/depression over the past year,and recently this triggered a severe Panic Attack - just over a couple
weeks ago...at first I thought it was a Heart Attack,but I had experienced Panic Attacks before,(not in many years) and
recognized the feelings ...after the Panic Attack,my left arm was left feeling tired,and weak...it went away,but came back
a week ago,and the weak feeling spread to my neck several days ago...my neck feels tired,and like it cannot even support
my head properly...yesterday while eating I had a sudden attack of something(?) that left the roof of my mouth,and throat
almost completely numb while I was swallowing! It took forever for the food to go down - it felt like I was going to choke...
this only lasted seconds,but it was terrifying...afterwords I went back to eating - had to force myself,but I spent the rest of
the night in terror waiting for another attack that never came...I thought I was having a stroke,but now I don't know what to
think...I hate to go to an Emergency Room only to pay them $$ thousands $$ of dollars (I'm currently unemployed/uninsured)
to do tests,and find out - it's only stress!
I was just wondering if anyone here had experienced that 'numb throat' as well? The dermatologist who
had me on the Antibiotics (Monodox) may have had me on them for too long at maximum strength,and I've been
wondering if I have been poisoned...I don't know what to think right now - I'm completely confused...and scared...
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I have had a similar recurring problem. Took me a long time to realise that it was a back problem, probably caused by a whiplash injury 15 years ago which, although it got better, is triggered from time to time by certain postural issues. Once I started seeing an osteopath, who put some movement through my back, it got a lot better. Every few years it starts up again but I manage to catch it early and get it looked at. The problem for me is that rather than conventional back pain, it manifests itself as dizziness, faintness (and actually fainting) and strange sensations in my arms, around my head and eye on one side. When I seize up it feels like someone is pulling a piece of elastic really tightly around my whole upper torso and neck and head. Later (when it gets really bad) there is conventional back pain. Before I cottoned on to it being a mechanical problem I thought I was having anxiety attacks. The problem is that the inflammation in the back mimics palpitations and then the inflammation really kicks in it leads to the muscles in the chest tightening as well. All of this makes it really easy for a doctor to tell you it's panic attacks. For me, I realised that it wasn't once I noticed that the dizziness and chest tightening (and faux palpiatations) was always happening when I sat down or lay on my back. That's when I saw an osteopath instead of a regular doctor. The best advice I have had is using ice on a certain area of my back for 5 minutes every hour when I'm having problems. This can make the dizziness etc go away in 2 minutes. Amazing. Anyway, that is my experience.
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There is a condition known as Forward Head Posture and is incredibly common.. look it up but your Chiropractor will know all about it. Trying to correct my own at the moment and your symptoms sound very familiar..
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Hey,
That exact thin happened to me at 1 am this morning.
I had a whole 2L bottle of soda to myself in in an hour..
After that I I was feeling alright, I went to bed, and I woke up from a dream when I was feeling pain, it was reality..
I had a stomach upset, so I went to the bathroom, when I got there I felt so weak, light headed, my whole body was sweating and short for air and everything just turned black and I fainted..
My roommate came after she heard me fall and she got me and splashed water on me..
I got up and was still feelin. Dizzy, so she opened the window cooled me off and I regained consciousness, this morning I feel great.
I think you need to get checked up
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Have you had MRI of your cervical spine? Also, any testing done from a ear specialist?
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Hi, I have Lupus as well, however I also had 2 blown discs in my cervical spine, which were causing my problems.
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