My Dad had it and it was caused by reactions to a mix of meds that were causing his BP to drop rapidly.
The other thing to check out is your inner ear. I had a strange occurrence back in the 80's. I flew with an unknown developing ear infection and then went on a 5 day cruise the next day and for 8-9 months after, I could not be around moving or running water without getting vertigo. It finally subsided was so bad in the beginning that running water in the sink would affect my balance.
Huh, that’s interesting, thanks for sharing. I may go to an ear doc just to rule out certain causes or just do some exercises at home that may help.
I’ll say this, I’ve dealt with a few people that have had it but never really researched it and none of them had it as bad as mine (not saying it doesn't happen, I’m sure it does, I just haven’t seen it yet). I felt great yesterday, was walking out of the gym and suddenly felt light headed. This wasn’t completely uncommon, I’ve head a few episodes of light headedness before but can normally attribute it to orthostatic hypotension or some other seemingly common cause. This was a little different because it hit me so hard that I went to the closest post to grab on to it.
Anyways, it went away within about 10-15 seconds so I wrote it off. I went home and ignorantly decided to do some yard work I had been planning on doing for weeks while I smoked some briskets. Not only did I get stung by a wasp (thought that was as bad as my day was going to get) but then I started feeling lighted headed again, this time more severe. I was stubborn and finished trimming the bushes, which only took a few minutes, and went inside, took a quick shower an laid down.
As I did all that I was feeling worse and worse, I told my wife it felt like severe altitude sickness if you’ve ever had that. Nausea, light headedness, feeling like I’m going to pass out, etc. Within a couple minutes of laying down the entire room started spinning, I became diaphoretic and had slight shortness of breath. Then came the vomiting and it was non stop.
To make a long story longer, I had an idea what it was but literally couldn’t stand and wanted to rule out anything cardiac. Against every urge I had, I felt so horrible and helpless I had my wife call 911 for the first time in my life. I would have had my wife drive me to the ER but couldn’t get to the car or stop throwing up.
Basically they gave me anti nausea medication and did a few CT’s to rule out any type of hemmorage since my symptoms weren’t getting any better after several hours. Eventually, yesterday night it subsided enough that I could walk on my own (very slowly) and they released me.
I feel a lot better today but still a little weak and “woozy”. My dumb stubborn arse decided I need to finish mowing the lawn, which I did, but it definitely set me back a bit. So now I’m just chilling but am worried about it occurring again, lifting weights again (which I may try tomorrow), snowboarding, hiking, etc.
It wasn’t so much scary, as I imagine chest pain would be, but it was the worst I’ve ever felt in my life which includes walking on a broken leg for a couple hours. I couldn’t turn my head without feeling like I would fall over, could barely mumble words and there was pretty much nothing anyone could do to make it better. I would wish death on my worst enemy over that.
So if anyone took the time to read my novel, this is why I’m wondering what others experiences were like and the results.
Edit: Can’t wait to see how many thousands of dollars this will rack up. At least I got peace of mind by ruling certain things out but I’m willing to bet between the ambulance, ER visit, CT scans, meds, etc I’ll be looking at a min 5K bill for something I could have stayed home with and got the same results.