I fixed positional vertigo but now have this floating feeling.

[Sacolucci]

I recently got BPPV which went away with the Epley Maneuver. I have been slowly getting better after months of thinking my vertigo attacks were anxiety attacks. Anyways, positional vertigo is gone but I still had unsteadiness. today decided to have a shot espresso and now I have this anxious floating feeling. When I stop moving I feel like I'm floating but it came with the anxiety after the espresso.

I am wondering if anxiety can cause floating or perhaps this is a side effect of vestibular therapy I did today which not sure if I should do since they say the unsteadiness with BPPv resolves without treatment up to 3 months .

[Agora1]

Hi Sacolucci....I am so glad to hear that you are feeling better and that the positional vertigo went away. I would think the floating sensation you are feeling is more from the shot expresso. The high levels of caffeine would affect both your anxiety and possibly the vestibular. Hope that feeling goes away soon. Take care.

[Sacolucci in reply to Agora1]

Thank you. It seems to be subsiding. Are you on medication for your anxiety? I never went on medication but as I get older it's so much harder to function. Everything is amplified because of the anxiety.

[Agora1 in reply to Sacolucci]

I am only on Lexapro now. I came off my benzo meds almost 3 years ago. It seemed to be a positive turn around for me since then.

[ACJ1191]

I've been diagnose with vertigo how did you deal with the floating feeling I feel like my body is so light an fragile my head feels heavy an off balance an it's scaring me

[JoMarie5 in reply to ACJ1191]

Me too ! Except I haven't been diagnosed . But I have been to the doctor. I feel floating with a heavy head as well . Almost like a unreal feeling and definitely off balance.

[ACJ1191 in reply to JoMarie5]

yea I got an ct scan Wednesday but it's crazy because anxiety have made me feel like this before but it'll go away when I lay down but with this I can't find relief an it's been like this since Friday it feels so unreal I don't feel normal at all my arms an legs seem like they're not there sometimes

[JoMarie5 in reply to ACJ1191]

Same here . I had a CT scan done last year . And as I looked back at some of my posts I seen I felt like this before o guess . Idk but I feel awful.

[ACJ1191]

Yea I just started having bad anxiety this year so I'm not use to feeling like this I guess that's why I'm scared on top of having vertigo I have mononucleosis so it's just horrible but when I'm busy I hardly pay attention to the feelings it just feels like I'll fall over at any minute

[JoMarie5 in reply to ACJ1191]

I feel the same . And makes my heart start to pound and my hands get sweaty and all of a sudden I feel like some surreal zoomed in type feeling like I'm gonna faint .

[JoMarie5]

And idk but my ears start to feel full and I get pressure behind my nose and eye area as well . Not all the time but sometimes.

[Sacolucci]

I believe my anxiety wreaks havoc on my vestibular system. I often have floaty feelings and acute episodes of bppv. This one th second time I got full blown vertigo and it happened under stressful times

[JoMarie5]

How would you describe your attacks from this ?

[Sacolucci]

So when I get extremely anxious and have a lot of things going on my life including racing thoughts and a bit of depression I start to get positional vertigo. When I turn over in bed or have my head in certain positions I spin. And in between attacks, I just have this off balance unsteady feeling.

[Picker1956]

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