I'm not sure why I'm writing this, but I feel like it might assuage my anxiety a bit, so here it goes.

I've travelled to Toronto (on 4 hours from where I live) for a couple of weeks before the new semester starts to try a course of laser therapy from Dr. Kahn's clinic (featured in The Brain's Way of Healing). I just arrived yesterday, found a cheap place to stay, and was planning on getting treatment and taking it easy for a couple weeks.

This morning was my second treatment. I'm laying face down with my face in a cradle, and a therapist applies the LED lights to various positions on my neck/brainstem (preliminary to actual laser treatments). The lights are on this flexible hard plastic band, with hard plastic handles. When the therapist was moving the bands, she hit my skull, just above the neck, with enough force to be very startling. I asked her to be gentler as my head is sensitive (why I don't say this to every person who comes within a foot of my head I don't know). I don't think it was that hard of a hit, but it's hard to say exactly.

After I asked her to be gentler I started getting the spinning dizzy sensation I get when lying down with my eyes closed, fairly extreme, and my body sort of felt "out of sorts" in a spiny, disoriented kinda way. This probably lasted for a couple minutes, and then I calmed down. I should add that I got this sensation during the first treatment with my head in that position, to a much lesser extent, so it's not totally new.

Can this kind of dizziness be caused by a spike in anxiety? It hurts now where she bumped it, which I get, and can happen with me even in a near miss, but I'm worried this spike of dizziness means that this was a significant impact, and I'm sort of quietly freaking out about it. I'm all alone in Toronto for the next two weeks, and this isn't how I wanted this "healing time" to start.

The past few months have been relatively more difficult for me head-wise and anxiety-wise, and my ability to just be with and let go of my anxiety is waning a little, although I generally recover from spikes in anxiety.