[Leonards]

So yesterday I went to sit down quickly on the carpet on my backside.

My head pressure and dizziness symptoms (autonomic nervous system dysfunction I guess?) went crazy a short time later and today are even worse.

I feel drunk. Why is this happening? I know its possible to be concussed by falling and landing on your tailbone but Its not like I fell on my butt, I just dropped down quickly on it to sit on the carpet.

I've been tracki my heartrate most of the day
And even at 61 BPM i still feel horrible.

Has anyone else experienced this? Am I just experiencing an anxiety response to cause these symptoms or have I officially lost my mind?

Really trying not to think it's not a big deal.

I'm sick of living like this.

[Leonards]

Hi guys,

I'd really appreciate some insight. Why does our head pressure and dizziness flare up just from sitting down on the floor quickly?

[davOD]

Originally Posted by Leonards

Hi guys,

I'd really appreciate some insight. Why does our head pressure and dizziness flare up just from sitting down on the floor quickly?

Can be lots of things....Hows your blood presser?
We have crystals in our ears that out of place cause dizziness.
From my accident I have equilibrium problems.

I can be laying in bed then get dizzy often, been like that for me for 14 years

[Leonards]

My heart rate is only 66 at the moment and I feel drunk. I've felt dizziness and head pressure and dysautonomia for days now at various heart rates simply from sitting down quickly to relax on a carpeted floor, not even a hard landing.

Up until last Thursday, I was making slight progress with sub symptom threshold walking exercise (a joke, considering i used to be an athlete)now im back to square one again.

4 years of this loving hell. No answers, no treatment, no help. Nothing.

[Mark in Idaho]

Stop checking your heart rate and looking for symptoms. If you look for symptoms, they will appear. The mind can make up symptoms from memory. It is called a flashback. If you encourage them, they will get worse.

I honesty wonder if claims of dysautonomia are psychogenic or psychosomatic. I notice that only people with anxiety struggles have claimed such a diagnosis.

[AlmondJoy87]

Backpacking off of what Mark said, I have Dysautonomia and anxiety but I can confirm they are separate things . That being said, one can make the other much worse. If you want to heal from Dysautonomia, you mustn’t only treat it as an anxiety disorder, and if you want to improve your anxiety, you must conquer the underlying disorder health wise that’s making you anxious

[Leonards]

I'm trying to but nothing works. What's the point of life if lying down on a carpeted floor to relax is enough for symptoms to come roaring back?

[Mark in Idaho]

Why are you focusing on your symptoms? Ignore them and they will diminish and go away.

This is a prolonged anxiety attack. Treat your anxiety that you are making worse by looking for symptoms.

Find things to keep busy with. Don't let your mind be idle.

[Atticus]

Hey Leonards,

Following on from what davOD said about crystals in our ears, you may be suffering from BPPV. This is certainly worth consideration. This can be self treated easily with the Epley Manoeuvre.


Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo(BPPV)

Benign paroxysmal positional vertigo (BPPV) usually causes intense, brief episodes of dizziness or vertigo associated with moving the head, often when rolling over in bed or getting up in the morning. Some people may also feel nauseous between episodes of vertigo.

Activities that bring on BPPV symptoms vary from person to person. Getting out of bed or rolling over in bed are movements that often trigger dizziness, vertigo, light-headedness, imbalance or nausea. Some people feel dizzy when they tip their head back to look up.

Inside the inner ear is a series of canals filled with fluid. These canals are oriented at different angles. When the head is moved, the rolling of the fluid inside these canals tells the brain exactly how far, how fast and in what direction the head is moving.

BPPV is thought to be caused by little calcium carbonate crystals (otoconia) coming loose within the canals. Usually, these crystals are held in special reservoirs within other structures of the inner ear (saccule and utricle). It is thought that injury or degeneration of the utricle may allow the ‘crystals’ to escape into the balance organ and interfere with the fluid flow.

BPPV can be treated with simple exercises. These positional manoeuvres aim to move the crystals out of the semicircular canal of the inner ear and into an area of the inner ear where they no longer cause dizziness.

The following is a YouTube introduction and explanation of the Epley Manouevre. You may find a local therapist that will help you if you feel this is appropriate to you.

Epley Maneuver to Treat BPPV Vertigo - YouTube

Best wishes,

Atty