Hello everyone, I am usally on the PM board, but I hve a feeling I will be visiting this board abit more often.
I was wondering if anyone here has experianced any problem with dizziness or feeling abit "off", for lack of better word, due to cervical problems.
I will get get this dizziness at times & I have noticed it can occur more so when turning or moving my head a certain way. It seems to be occuring more often & I definantly do not like that feeling. I have been going for ESIs over the past couple months & the last set did not make a difference at all.
I am curious to see if anyone else experiances anything like this.
Also anyone see a difference with this type of problem following any ESI procedures? Thanks everyone, Sammy
Re: dizziness, could it be from the cervical area?
Hello,
I have been suffering from dizziness due to herniated cervical disks. At first was diagnosed with a condition similar to Meniere's disease, ear, got therapy and after a surgery that had me in bed for a week, I realize that they went away. The reason is that during that week I had a neck rest.Then when I started using my neck a lot, the diziness reapered. The only thing that helps me is to take 1/2 of an Ativan but I wish I could find another solution.
Did the injections ease your neck pain at all? and how many did you receive, good luck
Re: dizziness, could it be from the cervical area?
Hi Elga! I have 2 buldging discs in my back and 2 in my cervical spine. Plus something that is a small round 5mm something that lit up. My head often feels too heavy for my neck to hold up. And I will sometimes get a chin tremor. But my most disabilitating symptom is dizziness. I was treated once with antivert for vertigo but it didn't even touch it.
I am always dizzy to a certain degree but sometimes it is so bad I can't drive. Or I am falling down dizzy.
No one knows why. I do have other medical porbs. (thyroid, Chronic Fatigue Syndrome) but this is just not right. I will continue to look for answers. And in fact just yesterday started searching for cervical dizziness. Problem is I have read it usually follows whiplash. I did not sustain any type of injury.
I sure hope you find you answers. Keep searching. Maybe someone with more experience will help out. Just wanted you to know that you are not alone.
Hope today a good day!
Re: dizziness, could it be from the cervical area?
I will try to answer your question the best I can. First I have to tell you that I am a mess, so I hope I do not confuse you to much,lol.
I have more issues & pain else where then in the actual neck, although days like today I woke up with such pain in my neck & a headache that nothing will touch, You know the type that you can feel it radiating from the neck & can make your head feel like its going to explode, each movement hurts.
I have alot of shoulder/arm, chest/ribs & upper back issues, muscle spasms & pain everyday. I have no ROM in the mornings with the left arm for the most part. Went through shoulder surgery & there is thought to be myofascial damage along with some nerve issue, thus far my PM is looking at cervical & thoracic, ESIs are being done in those areas.
The first set I had some relief, like in the hands & some minor pain reduction, the second set nothing, although he did it abit different by adding an injection to see if it would help the rib area, which kind of backfired.
I will be going for a nerve block & ESIs for the T area sept4, & praying for relief. Trust me even that bit of relief was great. my meds worked better with that bit of help. I have heard with ESIs everyone & every set done can be different. I have a friend that just had success with a set of ESIs & she was thrilled. So to me its worth a shot when your in pain everyday. I would love to reduce the meds.
I do know there are some things going on in that neck of mine & seems that if I wake up with it a mess, like this morning its pretty much here for the day.
Very different headaches, nothing touches them. The dizziness is scary & I am hoping it does not get worse. The pain is not new to me but learning about the spine & nerves is, so I did not know if others experiance this.
So thank you for you response I appreciate it very much so. Sammy
Re: dizziness, could it be from the cervical area?
Hello,
sammyo1
Reading back my firs post it is a bit hard to understand. I should have said that I was wrongly diagnosed with a condition similar to Meniere's disease. For another non related reason I had to have an operation, due to this I had a "neck rest" being in bed all day long. This allowed my neck to heal I guess and my diziness disapeared for a few weeks. This is how I understood this dizziness came for the herniated disk (that made me suffer a lot).
If I understand well you dizziness came after you got the injections, hope they go away, and if not try 1/2 of a pill of Ativan (the lowest dose) and for me it does the trick. Stops the dizziness all together.
As you can see I am a mess too specially that day I posted and English is not my language (french actually). I understand your pain, I hope you find some relief when you finish your sets of injections.
Maybe you already did but for me a dawn pillow actually helped those morning aches, I use to sleep on a hard pillow which is not recommended. I cannot give you more advice as not familiar with your other issues. Maybe you could try Glucosamine, Chondo..Msm, helped me a lot but had to stop them because they cause major sleep disturbance and zoombie like feeling in me. What helps me are anti inflamatory (Naproxen) but cannot use them much as I gave GERD and upset my stomach. Sorry about your headaches, must be hard, tylenol helps me but only if taken on an emply stomach. Good luck with your treatments and thanks for your response.
momofboyz,
I feel the same way about the heavy head, it's terrible, I feel my neck is like a small pin trying to hold a big water melon, specially towards the end of the day. Keeps me from doing a lot of activities. Have to rest my neck on a pillow and stay like that until I go to bed. I also tried antivert for dizziness, did not help at all. Apparently Ativan somehow blocks nerves and that is why it helps stop that awful feeling. I usually take it on an emply stomach first thing in the morning like I said before 1/2 pill of the lowest dose i thing it is 1 mg. About the whiplash, I suffered one about 30 years ago, so could be that or a bad position I held for two many years doing my work. Surely you have a lot on your hands if adding the chronic fatigue syndrome ( I think I have that too), so hope you give a try at Ativan it took me a year to find something that helped, it does not take the pain away just the dizziness, better than nothing, thanks for your wishes, same goes to you,
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