I posted a while ago about dizzy spells not unlike sea sickness. Last Monday was a very stressful day and Tuesday saw me so dizzy I could not move safely. Bad even lying down. I took 2 extra mg pred and took it very easy. By Wednesday could move about but with poor balance.
Friday night I woke after 1hrs sleep feeling really weird in a way that it very hard to describe. I had pains in various places including upper jaws but non of them hurt more when pressed. No temperature, no apparent racing pulse, but slightly nauseous. My head felt sort of out of it. After about an hour and a trip to the loo I walked about in the house a bit and went back to bed propped up on a lot of pillows. Saturday felt 'not right' but not ill and today - much better.
I'm pretty sure the vertigo type dizziness is down to adrenals being silly, but haven't a clue what was going on in the night time do.
Now in a quandary about vertigo type as you are supposed to report it to DVLA. Do I stay at same dose of pred to avert it, or what? I am still on 5 1/2 which was raised from 4 following the last do.
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I should have added that there was a bit of churning inside - almost like nerve endings were firing off all over the place. Sounds very jumbled but struggle to describe it!
I have had similar experiences - and it is a histamine thing we assume since antihistamines stop it, even once it has started. And HS did say ?allergic reaction - logical way to rule that out is antihistamines.
The ones with -zine on the end can help with vertigo with Cetirizine being the weakest so if that isn’t enough I use Promethazine, though it makes me sleepy but it’s a small price to pay if I’m that bad.
It could have been that your stress was too high for your adrenals for your adrenals to cope with. It made me dizzy and feel quite unwell and feeling generally ‘at risk’. However the dizziness wasn’t the type where if I moved my head the world lurched which is the one that I would use antihistamines for.
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