Is it anxiety or anemia?

[ImHere_Again]

On October I has my blood drawn and the results indicated that I was low in iron. My doctor told me that I could be anemic. I have always felt out of balanced, I connected that with my anxiety. There are times like today that I have felt super dizzy, different than the feeling better of off balance. I woke up and stretched laying down and immediately felt the whole room spinning. I felt like I was the only one moving. I got really scared. I was really tensed the whole day. When I was about to go to sleep I felt everything spinning again. I feel pressure behind my neck. Everytime I look down or up I feel the room spinning. My mom says it's probably my anxiety, but I really think it may be because I'm low on iron or something. I got a new doctor recently and he gave me vitamins for my iron. I just took it today. I don't know if it's going to help. This isn't the first be time I fell this way I already had an MRI three years ago because of this same reason and they said I was fine. I don't know why I'm feeling this bad but it's really making me feel upset. I am scared to fall asleep and wake up feeling like everything is spinning. My mom insists that I should go to the doctor be but I am really hesitant to go especially with everything going on. I don't know what to do to help myself.

[hypercat54]

Hi I looked back on 3 of your previous posts and saw you had a number of replies giving advice. However you didn't respond to them so I am wondering if you read them and took the advice offered? Did they help?

[ImHere_Again in reply to hypercat54]

Yes! When I get anxiety it always calms me down at least having people acknowledge what I am feeling. It's really hard to calm down but I think I always eventually end up doing it. Usually when I feel out of balance I know it is caused by anxiety. It just felt different this time. I feel like it was related to my neck or head. I only saw the room spinning whenever I moved my head a certain way. I just want to think that perhaps I slept wrong or something. I woke up feeling a little better but I am still really shooken. I am going to feel tense all day but as long as I take it easy I hope I will be ok. I am praying that it was just bad posture that made me feel this way. Either way thank you for checking up on me! I appreciate and hope all is well with you <3.

[Lannoc in reply to ImHere_Again]

I suffer greatly from anxiety and have occasionally been dizzy like that. It can last a few hours or a few days. Muscles tighten up all round neck and ears but when it loosens off the dizziness goes.

[Seroma12]

It probably depends on how low your iron is? Because it could be either anxiety or iron! My iron is always fairly low, but i don't have any symptoms unless it gets really low. Everyone will be different though. Have you been checked for b vitamin and vitamin d levels? Take care.