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Dizziness with eye jerking and nausea.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 29/12/2017 18:54

So for the past three days now I’ve had dizziness pretty much all day in short bursts with short gaps in between. Along with dizziness I get eye jerking (feels like it’s from side to side) and nausea. It’s affecting me a lot and I also have a cold with a bad cough and lots of sneezing (although the sneezing has stopped today) the sneezing made it come on worse and so does the coughing. Even if I am sat down not doing anything it will come on and they are quite intense and honestly, they scare me.

I’m holding out til Monday to phone the GP but I was wondering if anyone may know what this is? I have vertigo although not officially diagnosed yet so I get dizziness anyway but this is another level. I also take medication (have done for months now) for an under active thyroid. No other medications at all.

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Namechanger5555 · 29/12/2017 18:56

Labyrinthitis?
Eye jerking could be nystagmus.

CurlsLDN · 29/12/2017 18:57

I had similar with sinusitis, which came on a few days into a cold and was awful

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 29/12/2017 18:58

I did think of Nystagmus but assumed that is an actual condition and is constant.

I’ll look up Labyrinthitis and see if it fits. Thank you.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 29/12/2017 19:00

CurlsLDN I did think that as I’m going to be mentioning that to the GP also as it was suggested to me on another thread when I describing a cold etc. I’ll look into it and see if you can also get dizziness with it. Thank you.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 29/12/2017 19:02

Just had a look at Labyrinthitis and I do have the blurred vision, so it’s a possibility.

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HollyBollyBooBoo · 29/12/2017 19:09

Yep sounds like labyrinthitis or when I have a BPPV episode following on from months of labyrinthitis.

It's truly awful, hopefully it will run its course. You can take travel (motion sickness) tablets if it continues.

iklboo · 29/12/2017 19:11

Labyrinthitis can be kicked off by a cold. Take it easy OP. Have a chat with a pharmacist until you can see your GP.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 29/12/2017 19:20

Thank you, I will try and get out to see the pharmacist tomorrow. I’ve been ill with a cold and a cough with only a few days respite since october. I’m just fed up now.

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CurlsLDN · 29/12/2017 21:18

Yes you can absolutely get dizziness with sinusitis, I felt like each time I moved my head my brain kept sloshing about and knocking into things long after I’d stopped moving. Very unpleasant!

Justabadwife · 29/12/2017 21:21

I had labrynthisis last year, it went on for about 2 weeks before I went to the doctors.
I couldn't lie down without feeling like I was falling over, I couldn't read properly, it was awful.
Hope you feel normal again soon OP.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 30/12/2017 01:14

See that’s the thing. I don’t have to move, at all for it to happen. Thats the scary part. It is definitely made worse by moving, lying down and standing up also. Just getting up and walking at a slight turn to go through a doorway and up the stairs, for example, I get really dizzy and my eyes just start moving quickly and I get blurred vision and can’t balance myself. I think I’ve had this before but it wasn’t as bad or often or as long as this seems to be. It’s the eye thing that is worrying me the most. I sound like a hypochondriac fs

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brizzledrizzle · 30/12/2017 01:31

It sounds like labyrinthitis to me too, if you do have it you need to tell dvla. When I had it it was bad when I lay down as the room was spinning round me.

DumbleDee · 30/12/2017 01:43

I've had Labrynthitis twice sounds just like it.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 30/12/2017 01:56

Dvla is to do with driving right? I don’t drive so that isn’t a worry. Any advice on how to cope? Or what I may get told if it turns out to be that? What’s the treatment? sorry for all the questions, really hating it and hoping there is a way to fix it. Thanks for the responses.

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brizzledrizzle · 30/12/2017 02:00

Yes, Dvla is driving.

Stugeron travel sickness mess are a help, ginger helped me as well.

HollyBollyBooBoo · 30/12/2017 06:40

Unfortunately it's one of those things there is very little cure for. The worst thing you can do (not saying you have been doing it!) is lying down, you need to get up and keep moving around as much as normal as this is how you will learn to balance again.

Don't worry too much about your eyes it feels weird but they are just trying to sort out of the signals between what they are seeing and what your balance is telling your brain - which are two different things.

I had treatment at hospital for BPPV which is where the crystals in the ear are in the wrong location. They did manoeuvres on me to try and get the crystals back into place. It really worked and I've not had a dizziness spell (of any significance) since the treatment.

My heart honestly goes out to you, it's awful. I had it for 7 months whilst pregnant and it was a living death.

blackdoggotmytongue · 30/12/2017 06:49

I had BPPV and was stopped driving. It’s grim.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 31/12/2017 11:04

Still having the dizziness and eye movements, I’m holding out until Tuesday to make an appointment. Hopefully same day, I will say it’s slightly urgent. Otherwise I could be waiting weeks. Would this count as urgent?

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HollyBollyBooBoo · 31/12/2017 12:51

Can you get to a chemist and buy some motion sickness tablets? There isn't a lot the GP can do other than prescribe these.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 31/12/2017 15:28

I have a cold and my younger child has a bug that she is taking antibiotics for, I don’t really want to wander into the chemist and infect any elderly or immune compromised people. I need to see my gp about something else anyway so I can also mention this. Just hope I can get a same day appointment, if not they have a walk in on Wednesday. I don’t like going out while ill if I can avoid it.

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 31/12/2017 15:29

Just to add, my cold seems to be going and the younger child better so I should be safe to enter the surgery come Tuesday/Wednesday.

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PantPlot · 31/12/2017 15:36

You may find that when the cold goes, the dizziness goes as well.

I've had labyrinthitis with the eye jerking you describe. As pp advised it's a side effect of your bodies balance system trying to even out. My GP couldn't prescribe anything but rest and slowing things down, moving steadily etc. She did say that any possible treatments are generally quite ineffective and actually only work by suppressing the 'good' side so not ideal. She didn't say what those treatments were though.

Sympathies OP, it's not nice Flowers

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QuackPorridgeBacon · 31/12/2017 17:08

Hopefully it goes with the cold. Cough is finally clearing up and I may get to wear underwear without a pad soon 😂 snotty nose is almost gone as well. Dizziness is still going strong though. Hard to rest with two little ones and a partner who rarely gets sick and actually is this time.... he’s been great though and doing the majority. Hoping I can walk down the street in a straight line tomorrow, I’ll have a pushchair to hold onto so all should be well.

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Realitea · 01/01/2018 12:20

Stemetil can be prescribed which solves the problem instantly.. the only problem is it then delays recovery time. There are a series of exercises you can do which help realign the imbalance inside the ear. They’re on YouTube!

Lizsmum · 01/01/2018 13:15

Look up Epley manoeuvre and try it. You don't actually need a HP to carry it out but a friend to support your head as you move can be helpful. Good luck