Lets talk derealisation

[Lilxa89]

Anyome else experience this? Must say its been one of my most scariest symptoms of all. May i ask what your experiences / triggers have been? I suffer health anxiety, also low ferritin,vit d,folate etc which im now on meds for. I do also wonder if in peri as seems to be worse around periods. Used to be leading up to but now can be leading up to, during and just after.

I have no idea what you are on about?

I do, and it's utterly, utterly horrible. Mine seems to be a combination of chronic vestibular migraine, inner-ear dysfunction after a virus, autoimmune brain fog and low ferritin, with a hefty dollop of anxiety thanks to years of being fobbed off and misdiagnosed. I think my ferritin is a big factor though - I have IBD and have never absorbed iron well, but I was told by an IBD nurse not to take iron supplements unless I really needed them so I struggled on for years with exhaustion, restless legs, palpitations, ectopic beats and hair loss. In the past year, after yet another annual blood test showed ferritin in the low teens, I have started taking a decent iron supplement religiously and I am actually starting to feel better and more real, grounded and with-it than I have in decades.