Feeling spaced out / dizzy / light-headed - long Covid or something else?!

[Lostinthewilderness]

Have been feeling spaced out / dizzy / light headed for weeks now.
Like I’m not fully present, if that makes any sense.

One day I was so dizzy I couldn’t stand up & had to call in sick and stay in bed.
Also feeling exhausted.

Today I fell over while out for my walk. As in literally just fell over.

I’m not sure if I had Covid but there were several cases in my child’s nursery & my symptoms started around that time.

(Didn’t get tested as 1. To dizzy to drive to test centre 2. No “traditional” Covid symptoms 3. Child already isolating so I was isolating by default anyway.)

Could be labrynthitis?

Not sure - I’ve not been sick at all

Count literally be anything OP! You don’t know you had covid & you had none of the classic symptoms nor any of the common non classic symptoms. Dizziness alone is unlikely to be covid. Dizziness with cold like symptoms, severe headaches etc, more likely.

Dizziness could be an ear infection, labrynithitis, an imbalance of the fluid in your ear, sinusitis, dehydration, migraine, meniers .. I’m really prone to dizziness. It’s grim. I’m rarely sick but I feel very nauseous when the dizziness is acute. And after a dizzy attack, I’m left with a weird, foggy, spaced out head for a few days. Mine nearly always stems from a few days of not drinking enough water.

Take some sea sickness tablets. They really help!

@MoirasRoses that’s interesting because I’m terrible for drinking enough

Could be anything. I have just got over an inner ear infection that made me very dizzy.

I had dizziness after I had Covid. Maybe about 4 weeks after my positive test the dizziness started, lots of unpredictable symptoms arise from Covid infection.

You don't have to have been sick to have labrynthitis.

I felt spaced out and off balance for weeks / months after being very dizzy with labyrinthitis. I was never sick. I would call your GP x

There are too many possibilities, OP. I get light-headedness a lot from histamine intolerance, for example. I'd get it checked out, if I were you.

Sounds like me. I currently have labyrinthitis and I have only vomited once. I am dizzy, I fall over and I feel like I have a brain fog like I'm not really here. Had this now for 3 weeks. I went to GP and they cave me some dizzy pills and it is finally starting to go. However it could also be something else. Just giving my experience.

Dizziness was my only symptom of Covid. I was tested as a travel requirement so was definitely positive - I was amazed.

So it does happen and in my experience, it was mild but unmistakable and definitely my only symptom...... I’ve never had dizziness before and it lasted about ten days on and off.

For those of you who had this as a result of covid how did you get rid of it? Did travel sickness tablets really help?

Sounds like anxiety

@YayCoffeeCoffeeCoffee how long did it take for the labyrinthitis to clear?
did you get any issues with your ears? X