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Q: dizziness and head twitches
asked by: kow604 on January 18th, 2009
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Ok, for as long as I can remember I have had head twitches. It almost all the time feels like an electric current is running up the back of my neck, then my head pulls usually to the left side. Sometimes my whole body will shake. it does not happen every day and sometimes not for weeks. When they do occur, the frequency can be just once or twice a day...or 5 to 6 times in a few minute spans. I was not really concerned about this phenomenon because it was not in the slightest way painful and I have no medical insurance. So I thought if it does not hurt it cannot be anything too bad, maybe just nerves or not handling stress well. But in the last couple of months I have also started becoming dizzy. the dizziness comes twofold: almost always while laying down and just moving (like changing positions from one side to the other side), or when i make a fast motion to go get something. It does not last long maybe 5 to 10 seconds, but my head feels heavy and it just swims, I guess swirls. Also I feel nauseous, but I do not throw up. Is this serious? Could it just be my blood pressure, I'm borderline high? Are the two things connected to each other? Any thoughts...
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MandMs
replied on January 21st, 2009
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Feeling dizzy when changing your head position (lie down from an upright position, turn over in bed or sit up in the morning), with lightheadedness, imbalance when walking, and nausea, could be symptoms of Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo (rarely serious condition that is self-limiting)
You may noticed that moving your head to look up or look down, also, brings the same symptoms.

Symptoms like dizziness, nausea and headaches, could be symptoms of hypertension, but typically don't occur until high blood pressure has reached an advanced stage (a few people with early-stage high blood pressure may have these symptoms).

If your headache is a piercing, throbbing, or electric-shock-like chronic pain in the upper neck, that spreads to the back of the head, and behind the ears, usually on one side of the head, it could be a occipital neuralgia.
You may also check the idiopathic stabbing headache, if you feel headaches as a stab from an icepick, nail, or needle and typically lasting from a fraction of a second (always felt at the same spot).

Best wishes!
Marija
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