Sorry to keep bombarding the board with so many questions this inner ear thing is just such a surreal experience. And I had another one I need help with... yesterday I went to a few stores and watched a movie at home most likely to much stimulation, during the movie I started to feel the horrible brain head pressure and thoughts that you want to be out of your body, my stomach was tight. A friend came over and we talked but I was watching myself hold it together, I felt so unbearable so I took .17 of Xanax and my vision started to like amplify???? But within the hour I felt so much better. Slept better as well. Today feel spacey and went for walk and the vision amplified happened again while I was starring at the tree. the colors got brighter and brighter it was like I was in the world of a flat screen TV. IS this because my vision has been so effected? is this compensation? I had a partial epley yesterday as well. Coud it be outer world viewing versus computer screen viewing. I am 99.9 & sure I took xanax and not some hallucinigenic :)

Anyone had this?? See psychiatrist tomorrow. May be more necessary then I thouht.

Jade :angel:

LOL - you're not going crazy, if that's what you're alluding to with your statement that going to a psychiatrist may be more necessary than you thought.

I've had some bizarre visual issues and modified sensations having to do with eye sight ever since onset of my symptoms. If you do a lot of searching on this Board, you will read about many posters who are dealing or who have dealt with all kinds of visual distortions, auras, and problems related to their head symptoms.

It probably different for everyone, but we are all experienving visual disturbances on some level.

It's good that you're going to see a counselor. I highly advocate that as an excellent way to decrease the stress and anxiety that comes with dealing with a woozy head (etc.). Stress can increase the way your symptoms feel.

Also, remember that you are probably not used to second-guessing everything, from the way you look at things, to the strange symptoms that you have, to not feeling "normal", and to the way your body is acting. That alone can make a person wonder if they are not truly sicker than they are, or are on the verge of falling apart. Try to relax as best as you can when you feel "funny" (it's hard I know) and remember that despite your symptoms, you ARE healthy. The more you are able to self-comfort and reassure yourself, the easier it will be for you to remain and react calmly to these distressing symptoms.

With some time, it's important that you start to rely on yourself to relax about your symptoms, and not rely some much on an anti-anxiety medication. Anti-anxiety medications are a great tool, but they only mask the anxiety symptoms. You need to find a way or ways that work for you so that you can learn to overcome your feelings of anxiety and/or panic, so you will be able to calm down internally, naturally, without medication. Your counselor can help you with this.

Don't be concerned with all your worries and questions - it's understandable that you have them, and this is a good place to relieve some of your fears and concerns.

Big Hug.

Jade: When my dizzies were at there worst I used to get those visual perception problems... I still do a bit (and a load of others). I used to describe it like someone had turned the contrast up, and looking at things as I walked around was like everything scrolling in paralax (ie everything looked like it was flat, but when I moved along then things up close moved faster than things in the distance but my brain seemed to summize that everything was flat and things close were moving backwards, things far away were moving forwards and things in the middle distance were staying still...).. It has got much easier to deal with (partly because it's nowhere near as bad, and partly because I don't freakout about it anymore....)..