If so how do you feel? I have had nearly 3 years off work b/c of this dizzy problem, and I still feel really bad. I made it my goal to start looking for work after the new year and had my first interview last friday.
I tried to smile, look confidant and act as if I felt fine.....while inside my head I was swaying back and forth and felt major brain fog. When I got home I cried my eyes out b/c I can't believe that I am going to have to take on a job in this state. I would be so excited to work and get back out there if I was not dizzy. My main hinderence is the brain fog. I can't stand it....it makes me feel so out of it and like I am not all together there.
I have another job lead too but it is 20 minutes away, and I like the job...I just can't imagine making that drive every day. What in the world am I going to do? This illness is driving me crazy.
Please share some of your experiences with going back to work while still dizzy and how you cope. thank you.

Hi Lauren,

Why is it hard for you to drive? What bothers you when you drive? Is there an increase in your symptoms when driving? I ask only because your symptoms are so similar to mine and the one thing I always thought helped me was getting in my vehicle and going for a drive. In the past three years, my son and I have found every single park in Western Pennsylvania because that is what I felt best doing. I was wondering if it were actual symptoms or perhaps just a fear of something happening when you drive as maybe that is something you can try doing more of so that you don't feel so frightened.

I remember when this first started for me, I had so much pressure in my ears that I would get in my car so that I could drive up and down the mountains (we've got a lot of them in Pennsylvania) just to make my ears pop and relieve some of the pressure.

I hope when you start work things will go well for you. Sometimes the fear of the unknown (in your case not knowing how you will feel and how you will handle it) is worse.

Good luck,
Gloria

I completely agree with Gloria.

It will likely get better when you start working because you'll find out that your anxiety was unfounded. I"ve worked with this stuff, and it's definitely doable. Thinking about going to work is usually worse than working itself.

I can drive short distances....but any further and I get major brain fog. I start to feel like my head is all floaty and I am in a dream like state, which is scary when you are going 70 on the highway. I wish that I did not have trouble driving...I would feel so much better about things. I always have thought that it was the damaged nerves in my ear being over worked by taking in too much, and all you have to concentrate on while driving.

I just want to do the best job that I can, and I feel like I can't think straight with this dizziness. Although I do agree that the worrying about it is making it worse. Trying to remain calm. :cool:

Yea, I kinda get that feeling too when I'm driving for a while. I attribute it to anxiety mostly as I don't feel dizzy at all driving; I know I'm very, VERY tense when I drive for a longer period of time, especially on the freeway. After about 15 minutes of that, fatigue starts to set in. My neck starts hurting, then my head starts hurting, feels foggy and all that.

For a while I avoided driving on the freeway as much as possible, and I think that was a big mistake. Now I'm doing it regularly and it's getting much better, tho long drives still give me some trouble.

Either way, you'll be fine! Good luck with your job search!!!

Wow that must be tough with the driving. I know the more I do certain things that trouble me, the better I get at it. I would start practicing more. I wonder too if worrying about it brings it on. I made myself sick this past Saturday as I went to the Steeler game with my husband and I worried about the excessive noise and feeling dizzy all day and sure enough, I was fine all day until I got ready to leave for the game. I believe this junk actually existed in the beginning for me but over time it has improved but my memory of it brings it on. Does that make any sense to you?

I wish you much luck. Take baby steps and you'll get there.

:angel:

I find working takes my mind off it all only had a few days off in the 2 years 4 months since it started, also I'm self employed, if I don't work I don't get any money so that made me get out there and do it I suppose. Sitting around does make me notice more symptoms though.

Driving has never been a problem for me either I'm like Gloria on this one.

Jayne

I was out of work for 3 months and I have gone back just 5 hours a day. However with the holidays I have gotten a break and had to only do 4 day weeks which was nice and gave me the break I needed. I have been back to work for 8 weeks now and it has been very very challenging and there is not one day that goes by where I don't think "I can't do this anymore" but I just continue on. I said to myself "you are not dead so you have to keep living" if the big man upstairs wanted me he would take me and that would be that but he hasn't and so I keep going. My job is very physical but luckily the people I work with are very understanding. hope this helps

I have been out of work for almost 3 years now and I WANT to work again so bad. Just for that whole since of having a purpose when I wake up and to feel good about myself. I just don't want to be dizzy while I do it. Work is challenging, hard and stressful enough when you feel fine....I just can't imagine doing it while dizzy. Grrrrr
Looking for a solution to this problem every day.
Thanks for the replies!

I have been out of work for almost 3 years now and I WANT to work again so bad. Just for that whole since of having a purpose when I wake up and to feel good about myself. I just don't want to be dizzy while I do it. Work is challenging, hard and stressful enough when you feel fine....I just can't imagine doing it while dizzy. Grrrrr
Looking for a solution to this problem every day.
Thanks for the replies!

If you lived near me I'd give you a job :) We could be dizzy together :)

Jayne

That would be sooo nice if I lived in the UK Jayne! Dallas, TX is sooo busy with bad traffic at all times of the day...very stressful for a dizzy person.

I always say to my husband that I wish I had one dizzy friend that I could hang out with so we could do low key stuff and understand what the other was going through!