Hi All, just looking to see if anyone has had anything similar really.
So I weaned my 16month old quite suddenly about 10 days ago. I was feeling great initially after - better mood, more energy etc. Then Sunday night I fell asleep on the sofa at home, my husband woke me and I got up to go to bed. When I crossed the room I got a really bad cramp, and I remember thinking I better sit down. So I went to sit on the floor. At this point I was pretty out of it and my husband helped my crawl back over to the sofa. Apparently I did pass out but only for a couple of seconds. My husband called the ambulance and they checked my heart, etc. Only my blood pressure was a bit low. I did go up to the loo after they left, so maybe an hour later and I had gotten my period.
Now I had also been on a course of steroids for 5 days the week before and hadn't been told to wean off them or anything. I don't know if that's relevant. I had also had some tinnitus a few days before and thought I might have a bit of a sinus infection, but thought it would clear itself.
So I assumed that would be it but i woke up the next morning very dizzy. I went down to my GP surgery the next day and the GP I got didn't seem at all worried. Told me it was just a faint from low blood pressure and the dizziness would pass in a few days. Over the next few days the dizziness did improve but didn't completely go.
I was back down Thursday gone for review. Got the same GP, he was surprised it hasn't completely resolved. So he decided to do bloods to rule out low b12 or anemia which I had in pregnancy. He also put me on a course of antibiotics in case it is a sinus infection. I did try and talk to him more and explain that I have anxiety anyway and this has really thrown me, but he just kind of dismissed it and told me not to worry.
24hr into the course of antibiotics and the dizziness is all but gone, only very slight tinnitus left. More energy and oddly even my eyesight seems sharper (dunno if this is related to weaning?!)
I did ask if stopping the steroids the day before or the hormone changes/period arriving could have caused the fainting/dizziness but he didn't really say much.
Overall I came out much more anxious and spent the evening googling brain tumours and crying! Just looking for any others with anything similar!