Anxiety lightheadedness

[Goldenretriever1997]

Good evening all, new to the forum,

ive been dealing with anxiety for nearly 2 years now it all started out with some chest pain and a trip to the ER and hasnt stopped since I constantly get mild to severe lightheadedness and the spins and that causes me to go into a panic and anxiety attack with a elevated heart tense muscles the shakes dry mouth , I’ve tried Zoloft and didn’t seem to help and recently switched to a new medication for about 4 weeks and seeing small results but still everyday get these anxiety side affects, I’ve been thru a lot of testing and my body is healthy does anyone else get symptoms like this ?

thankyou

 

[EMJ]

EVER SINGLE DAY....this could have been written by me ....every time I get this lightheaded feeling ...I get panicked which in turn causes other symptoms ....awful I have been dealing with this on and off for 25 years...sometimes worse than other times and sometimes it had sent me into a severe anxiety phase for a few months....anxiety is the worst

 

[bin_tenn]

Yep. A very common symptom of anxiety is dizziness. I feel dizzy / lightheaded any time I'm suddenly anxious, or when I've been overly stressed for an extended period of time. It's intermittent most of the time, not constant. It also causes me to feel more anxious, which in turn increases the dizziness and adds other symptoms.

 

[FinneousRex]

You’re definitely not alone, (I’ve written this on multiple other forums, so if you’re someone who has read this multiple times, I’m sorry!)

If I get a very bad panic attack (one time went on a span of 4 months straight having constant attacks) I get all the heart attack symptoms, chest pains, heart palpitations, shooting nerve pains in my arms that ache for hours, half facial numbness and if it’s an active attack I start losing my vision if I’m panicking hard enough. I’m not sure the context of your anxiety (like what causes the worst attacks), but I know for me, the portions I could control, like being in stopped traffic while driving, I forced myself to do so I would get over the anxiety attacks. To this day, I still have problems with it. But I can usually kick my parasympathetic nervous system in within 5-10 minutes to calm down, when before I’d he praying to god hoping I don’t go blind alone in my car. Baby steps are still progress!

But simply, no, you are not alone!

 

[Goldenretriever1997]

Yes I do get some of the symptoms to with the eye vision and I get eye floaters and vision constraint and talked to my doctor and said it’s just stressed induced, also facial numbness and so forth it’s a everyday struggle but sometimes while at the dinner table or in the car and feels like I’m just gonna black out at the wheel but I know it’s not possible so I talk my self down

 

[Bunnyrabbitpoopoo]

This happened to me last night. Been having pains in my left arm that has been worrying me and then woke up and felt dizzy. I am not in the best shape so it is hard to separate that from anxiety

 

[Trikay12113]

Yes this is a very common symptom with anxiety. I experience this everyday 24/7. It’s a pain to have to go through for sure. I tried multiple anxiety medications before having to take the genesight test to help me try and find the right one for me. I definitely recommend it to anyone trying to get on an anxiety medication because it lowers the amount of medications you would have to try before the right one. I’m prone to side effects so It had to be done. I’m in the same situation where I feel a little better but I’m still having physical symptoms from the anxiety just not as bad or as often, but I was told that, that means either your medication dosage needs to be upped or/and you need to go to therapy and work on your coping skills and skills to help you along side the anxiety.

 

[jnpaul]

I am itchy all of the time from my anxiety! It can cause some pretty weird stuff to my body. It can convince us that we have a terminal disease as well.

 

[MakUSA]

Oh, you are not alone, definitely not alone.

For half a year, on and off (most of the time on) I have eye floaters, light headiness, and just feel very off. My face have needles, weird pain and what not. I did all the test several times, different doctors, and I always have the same answer that nothing's wrong with me.

Its really awful feeling that I don't wish to anyone but the fight continues.

 

[Joe diesel 09]

Good evening all, new to the forum,

ive been dealing with anxiety for nearly 2 years now it all started out with some chest pain and a trip to the ER and hasnt stopped since I constantly get mild to severe lightheadedness and the spins and that causes me to go into a panic and anxiety attack with a elevated heart tense muscles the shakes dry mouth , I’ve tried Zoloft and didn’t seem to help and recently switched to a new medication for about 4 weeks and seeing small results but still everyday get these anxiety side affects, I’ve been thru a lot of testing and my body is healthy does anyone else get symptoms like this ?

thankyou

Yessir. Exactly like you described and then some. The symptoms evolve. Change over time. I've had it since my early 20s. Im 46 now. Had about a yr and 7 months of complete and utter normalcy. It was truly beautiful!