About two years ago in november. after a fireworks display with my girlfriend i came home and i felt nervous i had a dry mouth i thought it would go but it didnt. it stayed. 4 months after i still had dry mouth but i got light headed i was light headed all the time from when i woke up until i was asleep. it got worst as the months past. one day i felt confident i didnt need a bottle of water for my dry mouth. since then i haunt. but the light headidness have got worse much worse a living hell. plz help

i have also had panic attacks. and the light headidness gets worse when i leave the house

please can someone help

You could try drinking chammomile tea, it is calming. So is milk. Regular exercise is invigorating but after effects are relaxation.

My father resently had nervous attack while visiting me. He was worrying about my mom who recently had a fall and was taken to the hospital. I gave him some chammomile tea and a chewable calcium and he felt better.

If your anxiety persists, maybe get some bloodwork done to rule out any physical causes. Emotional stuff might even be a culprit so a psychologist could help out there.

Also, things like dry-mouth and lightheadedness could be from dehydration from not drinking enough water; or low blood sugar(eating every two hours will help). It could even be from unconsious hyperventilation or even simple stress.

There are many possibilities, try to examine basic causes. It could be something quite simple.

thanks, sorry for the late reply but why have i got a light head all the time like i am on drugs?

monitor your breathing. anxious people are often shallow breathers and as a consequence there is not enough oxygen in the system and too much carbon dioxide, thus causing the light headedness. research into diaphragmatic breathing and you will find heaps on this.

Sorry to repeat myself, but i found and copied this post from one of my early posts on this board. Hope this helps.

Anxiety sufferers often breathe shallowly. Unfortunately, breathing shallowly depletes your oxygen supply thus the feeling of lightheadedness and dizziness. What comes after this - PANIC - oh no i'm gonna faint. It's a vicious cycle, we fear the actual panic feelings which we are causing through our thoughts. " a man is what he thinketh " When you notice your shallow breathing, rapid heart beat, breathe deeply and concentrate on the breath only (in through the nose, down the oesaphagus, into ur belly - u get the drift). As you breathe in, your belly should rise slowly and, as you breathe out, it should fall slowly. Keep on breathing, don't stop after one or two thinking this doesn't work ... trust me it will. So much stress hormone has been released that it needs to be neutralised with calming , relaxing thoughts.
Exercise also helps to burn off excess tension that has been building up in your system from constant anxiety or panic.
Panic attacks often occur when you tell yourself scary things, like "I feel light-headed . . . I'm about to faint!" Your sending a negative response to your brain then it responds by releasing stress hormones (mind you an anxious person doesn't need anymore of these) which is your body's alarm response and the "fight-flight response" kicks in.
What has helped me is thinking "This will pass and by concentrating on my breathing and imagining a relaxing place" these thoughts will neutralise the stress hormones with passive calming ones like those released when meditating. As K-2005 says float with the feelings, don't be scared of them - this will totally confuse your brain and eventually the fear will be lessened until it's gone. Show the brain ur not scared.

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I think lighthead can be caused by alot of things, low blood sugar(not eating every few hours), dehydration(not enough water), or sometimes hyperventilation, which is sneaky as sometimes you don't know you are doing it, especially in times of stress or like the other poster said, if you breathe too shallow. The breathing exercises the other poster explained are very good for both!

Weird thing is, when you hyperventilate, you feel like you are not getting enough air when actually you are getting too much!

Anyway, if proper eating, drinking, exercise and breathing are not working, either a physical could be helpful in ruling out other causes or some psychological counseling also might be helpful.

Prescription pills work but can be addictive and cause rebound anxiety and eventual tolerance to their effects, an endless cycle, so other things should be tried first.

I have had panic attacks since I was about 7 years old. They have come and gone over time, but I always have Xanax with me at all times, as a safety net. The attacks are horrible and so scary, and not a way to live, so I understand. I have worked on my anxiety over the years, with affirmations, vitamins, a lot of self talk and yoga/exercise, artistic outlets, journaling, therapy a few years ago....That Xanax sure can save your life. Before I was given the first script, I wasn't much of a pill taker. Thought you might be able to relate to some of my stuff. ?

A doctor told me several years ago that it is an extra beat, actually, and not a skipped beat, though I still say it when it happens, "Oh, my heart just skipped a beat!", and it scares the crap out of me. I have had it on and off for years. Doesn't seem to affect my health. I have heard that if it happens a lot, then you need to have your heart checked (to get on meds to regulate it.), like one of those things you wear for 24 hours. I personally want one of those to see why I have to take Inderal (originally for tremors for OCD med and for rapid heart rate. It's a beta blocker. I have low BP but have to take it for the rapid heart beat.).

My therapist told me that I was paying so close of attention to my bodily workings, to basically draw my attention away from issues I was not facing or dealing with, etc....... I would suggest walks, being out in nature (relaxes you and takes you away from the daily crap, connects you to a more spiritual and calmer state of mind), multi-vitamins, lots of Vitamin C and B's (your immune system needs the boost--that is emotional immunity too), yoga, journaling (gets it out of you, your concerns), etc.....as my therapist said about the panic attacks....that you should see it as a pie. Many pieces make the whole. Hope that helps. I still have panic attacks, btw, but not as often. If I could just stop thinking so much......=\ I have a book by Louise Hay that is wonderful, called, Heal your body, and in it, it says that being dizzy is because you have too much going on in your head. I get it too. I know that when I get dizzy, which is often, it is because I have too many thoughts going through my head and have to try to calm down, to slow it all down, concentrate on the moment and not other times. Personally, I do all of this stuff to help overcome the panic attacks...and it does help. Slowly but surely, it does.