Headache and light dizziness

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Hi all, does anyone have any tips for headaches and light dizziness?

Had an eye test 6 months ago and all fine, GP won’t see me soon as no other symptoms but for 4 weeks now virtually every day I’ve had a light headache and fairly often light dizziness spells.

Ive been drinking loads of water, taking extra iron tablets with my vitamins and that isn’t really helping. Paracetamol or Ibuprofen help for a good few hours, but I really don’t like to take them unless necessary, and certainly not for weeks on end.

Just wondering on your advice if there are any other remedies I can try to shift this, or if I need to chase my GP harder for a sooner appointment.

Thanks for reading.

Get your blood pressure checked at a pharmacy. Do you take vitamins? How old are you? Does anything trigger the dizziness?

If you can afford it, it might be worth paying for a private blood test. I used OneDayTests and it showed up low thyroid levels and well as low iron and vitamin D.

cant remember exactly which package I did, but it was a general women’s catch-all that tested around 10-20 things.

TMight it be too much time with your head bent over looking at your phone/tablet/laptop on your lap?

Thank you, I’ll get my blood pressure checked, but I give blood so it’s effectively checked 4x a year. I take a multivitamin, an Iron tablet, and a b+ vit to try and keep my energy levels up and helps with the giving blood. I’m 36 and nothing seems to trigger it, but sitting at a screen it probably happens more.

Thanks I’ll take a look at that.

Don’t think it’s that unfortunately as can happen soon after waking up and moving around.

Do you take regular eye breaks when looking at the screen...and what's your positioning like?

No I don’t and I’d probably say my positioning is poor.