Wierd childhood dizziness

thor01

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Starting from when I was very young, maybe about 3 or 4 or something, sometimes after getting really worried, or some times excited about something, I would often get dizzy, in the way that I would see everything in double vision, and many times on top of this, everything would move up and down fast. This usually lasted for a few hours. I went to hospital early on to see what it was, and had a polo scan thing, but they found nothing wrong at all. I went to the doctors a few times after this but still they didn't know what it was, other than probably some form of migraine. But anyway I feel like it kind of robbed me of my childhood in a way sometimes, and made me feel completely apart from everyone else who could run around and have fun for hours and be fine, (although I would have felt apart from most people anyway) because many times it stopped me from enjoying things, on top of already being shy with no confidence anyway which can be debilitating enough, and is still with me now. I managed to remain surprisingly happy, when I wasn't dizzy, and could really enjoy things when not dizzy. It started to occur much less by the time I was about 12. And by the time I was about 13/14 it was really wearing off and I would just occasionally get a slight feeling of it, but not quite the full thing. And after that its completely gone. I do sometimes get wired pressure headaches in the sinus areas now after worrying sometimes, don't know weather that's connected or not though. I am very glad the dizziness has gone because I think its quite likely I would have given up by now and just killed myself.
Anyone else had a similar thing?
 
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Remus

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migraine assisted vertigo?
I have a balance disorder since an accident last year, sounds very similar to my symptoms. You do gradually compensate though and adjust
 

thor01

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mmm yeah. Maybe that is it, but the thing is with me, it wasn't the result of an accident, it just started happening, and after a scan there was nothing apparently wrong. It seemed to be connected to how I was feeling at the time aswell, for example worried or excited. and I wasn't constantly unbalanced, and didn't get quick moments of off balance either.
 
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