Why am I dizzy?

[TheChosenTwo]

Woke up at about 4am and the room was spinning, I don’t feel ill, no temperature or ear pain/infection symptoms.
went back to sleep and woke up again at 6:30, still the same. Not sure it’s ‘dizziness’ exactly as just feeling a bit disorientated. It’s fine if I’m just sitting still and focussing on something, like my phone right now, I’m not feeling dizzy but when I’m looking about or walking I feel a bit weird and sort of ‘wonky’!
What’s going on with me?! Has anyone else had this happen?

Might be labyrinthitis?

Vestibular migraine perhaps?

Yep, agree with vestibular migraine

I felt exactly like this earlier in the week and wondered if it was labyrinthitis. It seems to have gone away now, so not sure if it was that or a weird virus. Hope yours also makes a sharp exit.

I get this sometimes and sleep it off then wake up fine. No idea what it is

This happened to me a week ago. Lasted four days. It was so horrible.

Then I realised I was wearing the wrong glasses ... 🙄

Still pissed from the Christmas party?

Oh I hope it’s not labyrinthitis, a friend suffers from this intermittently and she says it’s awful and lasts for ages with her every time.
not heard of vestibular migraines, I do suffer with an occasional ‘standard stress’ type of migraine though. Will look this up.

haha not pissed still, I rarely drink and my Xmas party hasn’t happened yet 😂
@DinoLil whoops!!

hopefully it will disappear of its own accord, I’ve got to get a train in a bit for a meeting and could do without wobbling all over the place like a drunk toddler…

I am experiencing exactly the same thing, never had this before, really odd feeling.

As a one off it is probably a virus. Maybe try to get it checked out, there is medication which they can give you to take away the dizziness and they can see if there is an underlying cause. Because I have this occasionally I just take travel sickness tablets and it usually passes in a few days.

I had vertigo after COVID last year. It lasted for months. Initially I could barely move but learned to move my head slowly, not looking up or down too much. Doctor tried a couple of medications but nothing really worked. Travel sickness tablets helped a bit initially . It just randomly went away one day.

Yes I do suspect some kind of virus - I feel well enough although have a bit of a disappearing voice at the moment - it’s there one minute and gone the next. All rather unpredictable as to whether or not sound will come out!
strange @allthegoodusernameshavegone - it is an odd feeling isn’t it? Hope yours also disappears soon.

I think it’s a virus too, my friend at work has just said she had it a couple of weeks ago, then had a dreadful cold, so I guess we better dose up, forewarned and all that!

Oh Christ, fingers crossed we escape the dreadful cold!
It’s weird, physically I feel absolutely well and fine (beyond the dizzy/wonky feeling and the mysterious disappearing and reappearing voice)…

I've been dizzy on and off for the last couple of weeks, and have also had twitchy itchy eyes but no other symptoms, feel perfectly well. I feel like it might be a mild form of something viral?

I get this for a day or two before a virus. It’s a horrible feeling and I just have to stay as still as possible unfortunately.

I get this all the time, had to go to the GP in October and was prescribed a weeks worth of tablets for vertigo, which did help to an extent. I do have anxiety though, so I don’t know if it’s just part of that. It’s very inconvenient and gets in the way of things.

I have nasty virus at the moment, probably flu that has sneaked past the vaccine, and dizziness is part of it. Mostly I'm fine, then suddenly have to clutch walls or furniture to stay upright. It doesn't seem inner ear related - there's no head movement trigger.

the dizziness has thankfully subsided, it was triggered somewhat getting an escalator down to the underground, that was not a fun 15 minutes combined with not being able to get a seat, it’s bouncy enough down there let alone when your balance is off 😂
But a few hours on it does seem to have gone again. So weird, I do suspect it’s some viral issue as my voice has now completely gone.
Fingers crossed to anyone else currently going through it - I hope you all get back on to steady feet soon.

I had this. Couldn’t turn over in bed let alone get up. My heartbeat was around 28-30 beats a minute, fine for a Kenyan athlete no so good for a granny.
DH rang 111 who sent an ambulance, they took me to hospital, the next day I had a Pacemaker fitted. That was nearly 8 years ago.
Don’t assume you have labyrinthitis, it could be more serious, consult someone with medical expertise, not us random MNetters.

The first time I had Covid, I was dizzy and a bit off balance for a couple of days before I had any other symptoms. When the dizziness happened again a couple of years later, I guessed that I might have Covid. And I did. Same six months after that. My eldest gets this too as a warning sign. We still test due to having an immunosuppressed child. I have been lucky with Covid in that it has been mild for me, but always the dizziness.

Wow @TrickyD that’s quite drastic 😱 lucky that your dh called that ambulance and you were treated quickly.
I do actually have a low resting heart rate which I assume I inherited from my mum who also had one and ended up with a pacemaker herself last year as a result of this.
It’s certainly not 28bmp though which was also what my mums was when she was admitted, it took them 10 days before they fitted her pacemaker and she wasn’t allowed home until they did!

@Funnywonder maybe ill break out into a bout of Covid just before Christmas 🥴

I don’t think so, I feel absolutely fine now, it was very very strange while it lasted having never had it before. I’ll keep an eye out should it happen again.