Frequent nausea, sometimes with light-headed dizziness.

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As the title says I frequently feel nauseous and sometimes this is accompanied by a light-headed dizzy feeling. The only thing I can compare it to is that travel/motion sickness feeling when you get off a boat but still feel sick and a bit dizzy for a while afterwards. (does that make sense to anyone?).

The nausea is a low level niggling nausea where you're 99% sure you won't throw up but it wears you down just feeling like that.

It's been going on for a few months on and off so I'm now thinking maybe I should go to the GP but it seems a bit vague and trivial.

Anyone had this? What could be causing it? Am I going to be wasting their time?

It could be mild vertigo? Have you had any ear problems? Labyrinthitis? What you are describing does sound a bit like it might be one of those things but as it's been going on for a while it's probably best to get it checked.

Have you had your blood pressure checked . Nausea could be any number of things , worth having some routine bloods done . Can you eat ok ? Are you losing weight unexpectedly ?

No ear problems, never had problems with blood pressure, no weight loss, eating OK but sometimes not particularly hungry because of the nausea (but make up for it when feeling OK)

I had a similar thing a few years back. Turned out to be the result of stress in a pretty crappy situation I was in.

How's everything going in life? If you are going through a crappy time or stressed out then that's a possibility.

I hope you feel better soon

Life's no more stressful than usual - just the usual day to day stuff that being a parent brings, nothing major.

I've certainly had much more stressful times!!

Thank you all BTW

Pregnant?

Inner ear infection?

I’ve had something very similar on and off for the last year. The first 6 months were pretty much constant ( and bloody miserable) and it’s been in dribs and drabs ever since. I’ve been to the docs, they were puzzled and said it didn’t sound serious so I was sent on my way. I think stress definitely made it worse.

When I was anemic I felt dizzy a lot of the time which made me nauseaus pop onto your go for a blood test... a course of iron will put this right if that's what it is.

Pop into your GP

Well worth checking your vit D levels, OP. I had the dizziness and a bit of nausea with it (amongst other things). Blood test revealed I was low in vit D (GP doesn't usually check vit D unless you ask explicitly). Taking supplements (available on Amazon, 50ug / 2000UI per day) seems to be really helping! The fact that it's been going on a while suggests it isn't a virus. Also, it can't hurt to top up your iron levels (another common cause of dizziness). I recommend the Spatone supplements, 1 or 2 sachets a day with apple (or orange) juice. Good luck!

It does sound a bit like labrynthitis to me. Have you had a blood test because the other thought I had was it also sounds like my DS' symptoms before he was diagnosed with Coeliac disease. Read up all the various effects it can have and see if it rings a bell. Hope you get to the bottom of it.

Perimenopause, just to throw another suggestion at you.

No not pregnant but could well be due to perimenopause (I have all sorts of other perimenopausal stuff going on)

Vit D is an interesting thought - I take Calcium and VitD tablets for osteopenia but have to admit I've hardly taken them for a while and before that was sporadic at best.

I'll look up symptoms for Coeliacs - another interesting thought

OP - You should definitely get tested I am a Coeliac and I have osteopenia - it is a common cause of malabsorption of calcium. Dont let the doctor fob you off as you don't have the classic symptoms i.e. Diarrhoea, vomiting and bloating. Most people actually don't have these, in fact the most common symptom to present with is anaemia.
www.coeliac.org.uk/coeliac-disease/about-coeliac-disease-and-dermatitis-herpetiformis/symptoms/
Hopefully this link might work ( not sure how to do it). This is a better website to check symptoms than the NHS one.

I've been like this for a while and been really cold too, and I've just been diagnosed as being b12 deficient.
Definitely worth a blood test.

The Coeliac info suggests I should get tested - thanks for that link SayHello.

Certainly not feeling cold Rioja, far from it! (the joys of the perimenopause )

Low blood sugar? Does it happen if you haven't eaten for a while?
anaemia?

Low vit D? My dd had the sme and she had low vit D.

I would also look at getting tested for H pylori , the GP can do that via stool samples , it’s very common and easily treated .

As others have said. Anaemia makes you dizzy.
Time for a visit to the GP and a blood test.

Hope you get some answers and start to feel better soon OP

Until I started HRT perimenopause was making me feel like I’d got morning sickness at certain times of the month.

How is it going OP are you feeling any better?

I had this from Feb to April this year.I stopped.driving.Maybe perimenopause too.Docs did tests and thought it was stress.