Hi all,
Not really sure what to do. On Wednesday on my drive into work, in the last 20 minutes of the stretch, my head started feeling ‘whoozy’ and my heart started racing. As I got into work I started feeling the whooziness even more intensely and like the room was moving when stood still. I sat down and ate something sugary in case it was low blood sugar or blood pressure. I felt upset by this as it was scary so probably took longer to recover. I developed a mild headache and the sweats and palpitations. I’ve had all of these symptoms on and off since then. Tuesday evening my sister text to say she had Covid (she’d stayed with us over half term with her partner) but her partner was negative. I then wondered if I had Covid and if that explained my symptoms, but I tested and was negative. I repeated the test again yesterday and still negative. I tested again because when I had Covid a couple of years ago head whooziness was my first symptom and it took 3 or 4 days to show as positive. There’s also a few people I’ve been around at work (in a school) that have tested positive, so felt like a real possibility. I stayed off work Thursday and Friday to rest and because there’s no way I could teach and manage behaviour feeling like this. I also didn’t feel safe doing the nearly hour long drive with the random bouts of dizziness. Anyway, skip forward to today and I’m now starting to wonder if it’s anxiety as I’ve been on the verge of what I think are panic attacks this morning. Bursting into sobs, short spans of almost hyperventilating for 10 seconds or so, funny feeling in my chest/palpitations/racing heart. I really have no idea why I feel like this but suspect it may be linked to work (I’m a secondary school teacher). Behaviour right now is awful and this week has been the first week back from half term. In the last couple of days before half term break I was involved in a couple of incidents that I reported. I’d voiced my concerns several times during the build-up to these events about feeling unsafe. On the last day I rang an SLT member because I didn’t feel they were aware of things that had happened ‘at the top’, and was essentially refusing to go back in that room again. They agreed and have removed me from this room (isolation room supervision that hasn’t felt safe) and where a student collided into me hurting my back, when I’ve struggled with pelvic girdle pain/sciatica that can be very severe at times. I’m wondering if now I’ve returned to school the anxiety of all this has caught up with me? It’s the weekend so can’t ring the doctor, but not sure who I can ring to speak to if this continues today? Advice from any teachers especially would be great.