Weird feeling when I stand?!


Question: I'm on holiday right now and for the last few days I've been getting a weird, sort of off balance feeling. It's kind of like the feeling you have when you're in an elevator and the ground feels like it's falling below you or you're heavier than you are and could fall down. I kind of feel like there's extra weight above me. I also get the sensation that the room's spinning but not around me below me with the ground spinning vertically, not horizontally. What could this be?


Answers: I'm on holiday right now and for the last few days I've been getting a weird, sort of off balance feeling. It's kind of like the feeling you have when you're in an elevator and the ground feels like it's falling below you or you're heavier than you are and could fall down. I kind of feel like there's extra weight above me. I also get the sensation that the room's spinning but not around me below me with the ground spinning vertically, not horizontally. What could this be?

Sounds like you have Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo. Call your doctor and ask him (or have him refer you to a vestibular specialist) to perform the Dix-Hallpike Maneuver to test to see exactly which of your semicircular canals are being affected. The usual fix for this is the Epley maneuver. But again, you're going to need to go to a vestibular specialist. This can be a physical or occupational therapist, or a neurologist.

talk to dr that dosent sound like anything i reconise and I reconise alota stuff cuz i delt wit alota stuff.

Could be vertigo. I had it once. I was dizzy and felt off balance. It went away after a few weeks.





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