Dizziness - High & Low Blood Pressure Message Board

napier44 · 10-12-2008, 12:08 PM

i have been getting vertigo off and on for years,I have had several MRI's and other tests for years but they have found nothing. during these attacks they last for several days, i can't hardly move my head off the bed my blood presure drops down extremely low and I don't feel right for months.Right before it happens I can almost feel a bang after or sound like thing ,hit the back of my head and then I can't fuction right.Then i don't feel right for months afterwards.The episodes are spread apart by years.It had been four years since my last one then this past year i had one and I was out of commision for six months.this time a new simptom was added it was followed by extreme panic and all the doctors could tell me was I don't know.I am not sure if the panic was cause i was so scared about having the episode or what.there is other simptoms that come with it extreme fatigue afterwards shaking and i can't think right.They did give me anxiety medicine to calm me down it took months for the stuff to work or maybe the panic part started to subside I am not sure .does anyone know possiably any answers?

braunchick · 10-12-2008, 11:15 PM

I have the same things going on , but also the feeling of falling down , this last nov i was so sick with this i lost 22 lbs and now have low blood pressue to go with it . dr tell me same thing we dont know take anti histamine. i get this in the winter time ususlly after a virius im scared my immune is down and winters coming again and i dont have 22 lbs to lose this year. they gave me vallume for the panick attacks but i dont want to live off this stuff . i want my life back .

aether4 · 10-13-2008, 05:50 AM

braunchick - That your problems happen after a virus suggests that the virus could be causing some damage to your autonomic nervous system - result is heart rate and blood pressure problems, either high or low. You can also end up with GI issues with it. Once your nervous system heals, if it does, you recover.
Note - I said suggests, you need to make sure there's nothing else happening either.

napier44- The feeling you get in the back of your head has me at a bit of a loss to explain. Have you looked in the brain and nervous system section threads about chiari (and researched elsewhere)?