Funny dizzy spells - anxiety

[Rainsbow]

I'm into my third year of anxiety. Nothing specific, I'm anxious about everything and thought I'd experienced every symptom going from the usual palpitations, chest tightness to derealisation, intrusive thoughts, tingling etc etc but now a new one (I hope it's that and nothing more sinister) but it's frightening me - split second funny/dizzy/jumpy spells where I feel like I'm falling. I'm not articulating this well. But has any other anxiety sufferer experienced this??

Anxiety is the pits and 3 year sounds bloody hard going

The only time I had dizziness with it was when my iron was low. Might be worth getting that checked, I think it can also be a sign of vit D and thyroid problems.

I'm guessing you've already tried but it took me a lot of trying out different combinations of AD's to (touch wood) sort out mine but I did get there eventually.

Yes same as deckoff, pretty sure it was low iron and vit d after some research as I wasn't eating properly and looking after myself. Anxiety has def improved after cutting out alcohol and eating colourful veg.

Thanks for the replies. I do sometimes - though not always - get VERY dizzy from sitting to standing and that takes up to 10 seconds to rebalance but what I was trying to describe in my op is quite different. Literally 1-3 seconds of "falling" or like a head rush. I haven't had blood tests for a long time but last one did show low vit d but we're talking well over a year+ ago.

Are you on any medication?

Sometimes weird side effects can occur months or years after starting them.

I get this quite often when I am very anxious or stressed - I think it is because my breathing gets very irregular when I am having an anxiety attack (I think sometimes I hold my breath without realising or sort of hyperventilate a bit) and it makes me lightheaded.

I'm sorry you're struggling with anxiety - it really is awful. I have really struggled with intrusive thoughts in the past too. I hope you have some real life support.

Over the years I've developed a totally irregular breathing pattern in the sense that it's become normalised now. But it's so wrong and unnatural. Thanks anxiety.

I'm not sure I experience the same thing but I definitely have something that sounds similar; I'll just be walking along and I'll get a 'rush' in my head which makes me physically need to hold myself steady and sit down?

Which direction does it feel it's going in your head, if you get what I mean? Mine seems to blow sideways.