So back in September I started feeling lightheaded as if a boat was moving or as if the floor dropped beneath my feet, went to the gp a number of times who eventually put it down to it being viral but it’s never gone away since then. Some days I’ll be fine, if I’m happy I’ll forget about it it kind of goes away. I do need glasses and my prescription is 0.50 both eyes I last had them tested in June 2024 and she said I don’t need glasses all the time but when I feel comfortable like I need them, my eyesight has been feeling more blurry and I’ve also found when I permanently wear my glasses the “dizziness” also resolves completely. During all this time I’ve been using my phone for about 8 and a half hours each day googling my symptoms and thinking I’m dying.I’ve been under a lot of stress, always suffered with anxiety but after a 6 year age gap I had another baby. My kids are now 9,7 and 18 months and I am a stay at home mum with no support and my toddler is absolutely killing me. She has never slept through the night, even at 18 months she won’t be put down on the floor or entertain myself so I cook, clean and do everything with her attached to my hip and she is so heavy now and this has been going on since she was 7 months old. I’ve tried letting her cry it out but she just doesn’t quit and give up she will continue screaming until she’s red in the face and exhausts herself. Husband doesn’t help much and I never get time to switch off and I do all the school runs and care with my children and home care and I’m so so so exhausted. On top of other daily life stresses we have recently gone through a stressful time of buying a new house. I’ve always suffered with some kind of anxiety but since my pregnancy with my 18 month old I’ve felt my health has declined so much, I had such a difficult pregnancy with her which resulted in hyperemis, depression during pregnancy, a difficult birth with a lot of blood loss, suffered with post partum depression to some degree and also it took months and months to get my iron levels up to standard. And now the dizziness that started in September before she turned 1. Doctor did a blood test and my iron levels had come back to a couple of points below average so he considered it now to be normal. Due to all these symptoms of lightheadedness I started having severe panic attacks which I never had before, these have now eased off and are much better than they was before but they were so bad. I’d have them whilst waiting for my children at school and the dizziness feeling I was getting was even worse during these moments. I’d wake up in the middle of the night with these
panic attacks for a couple of months, racing heart, tingling feeling, the dizzy feeling being severe during these times. For the last couple of weeks/days though I’ve had other symptoms of numbness in my face and arms and I feel as if one side of my face is dropping so I start panicking more and keep checking in the mirror to see if my face is “normal” I keep getting these sensations at certain places like when I get into bed at night and the school play ground and end up having a panic attack from it. I’m scared I will end up having a stroke or something, I’m worried the dizziness feeling is something nurological. I don’t know anymore. Can stress and anxiety and sleep deprivation really cause all of these symptoms ?