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Join Date: Apr 2014
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Dizziness only while laying down w/ eyes closed
After my head bump into the ceiling back in June I started getting some dizziness sensations when lying down with my eyes closed. Actually, I first noticed it about an hour after the head bump while meditating sitting up, but haven't experienced it sitting up since really. Essentially it feels like my body is spinning, and it only lasts for bouts of at most 7 seconds or so. I can stop the sensations by opening my eyes.
Generally the bouts have gotten shorter since then, although they get longer after another jolt for a time. They really are pretty mild compared to the dizziness I imagine many experience, but my PT says they aren't due to vestibular dysfunction (i.e. vestibular therapy wouldn't help it), and she didn't know what was causing it. It's the least problematic of any of my symptoms, but I'm sort of curious about it.
Has anyone else experienced something like this?
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26 year-old PhD student in evolutionary biology, slipped on ice in Feb 2014 while clipping my fingernails and walking to save time (dumbest reason for PCS ever?). Initially just had headaches and didn't feel quite right, but a minor head bump 5 days later started a downward spiral of anxiety, depression, insomnia and fatigue. Had trouble concentrating on reading/looking at screens
April 2014 - did exertion test, passed, started exercising and doing more, but didn't feel much better.
May 2014 - Went on backpacking trip OK'd by doctor, trip itself went fine, but felt worse a few days after getting back, more difficulty concentrating, worse headaches.
June 2014 - Bumped head on ceiling walking slowly down stairs, no immediate symptoms, but caused worsening headahces, more difficulty concentrating and looking at screens. Have not felt as good as I did before this since this bump.
December 2014 - after feeling relatively better I went xc skiing and fell but didn't hit my head (something my psychologist who specializes in brain injuries told me he hoped would happen so I saw it was OK), felt worse
Feb 2015 - back in grad school, light teaching load and some research, nowhere close to operating at my full capacity. Still have constant headaches, difficulty reading/looking at screens, mild anxiety and depression, and just not feeling like my normal sharp self.
Trying, but struggling, to believe that I'll get back to my old self, or at least get close.
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