Thanks for the reply 7ducks, did you find out what was causing your dizziness? or is it just "one of those things"?
I cant even feel my dizziness when I'm driving, it's just when i first lay down in bed and on general big head movements, and I do feel that over this past year it isn't as bad as when i first noticed it.

I think if it isn't anxiety that it is something to do with my sinus's, because i have had a lot of problems in the past with rhinitis, hayfever tinnitus, and it could all be something that has branched from these things. Or because I am a worrier and the constant worrying has caused it. I've given up trying to figure it out for the time been, but if it gets worse i will try to find some answers. My doctors rarely give out medicine and prescribed drugs as I have visited them about 3 times about this and they never advised taking anything.

hi andrew,
like yourself i am a worrier. how could we not be feeling like we do? it's the chicken/egg thing that drives alot of us to wonder whether we're dizzy because we're "worried" or vv. like many of the people posting here, i've been to and emerged from dark places in the last xx years, but i've also had much joy through friends and family. throughout it's constant .. but i don't think worrying helps (easy to say i guess :/).

i like your sinus suggestion. find a good ear nose throat (ENT) dr before finding a psych-dr .. probably cheaper and easier to test than anxiety.

all the best,
7ducks
PS. nah sorry .. i don't have an answer for my/our grogginess. when i do will break forum etiquette by posting in CAPS (:

Ok...I know these posts are from years ago, but why not give it a shot. I feel like I'm reading myself! I have just about all these dang symptoms and I've had them for 3 yrs. I'm so miserable! My "dizziness" just came on suddenly and has just made me miserable! I constantly feel dizzy, hung over feeling, spaced out, can't concentrate, tense, light headed... My stress and anxiety have gone way up b/c of this and I'm sure this isn't helping. I've had 2 ct scans of my head, 2 mris of my head, blood tests, eng tests, chair spin tests, thyroid tested, sugar tested, tested for anemia, ears and eyes tested...all have come back showing no major problems or everything normal. I've had a neurologist tell me it's stress, anxiety and depression. They tried anti depressants and they didn't work. I thought they were at first b/c I started to feel better, but then a few days later I was right back into it. they also made me more depressed, mad, angry ...so I flushed them. I have so many thoughts of what it can be. I'm thinking inner ear (b/c I do get the feeling of moving still after I stop driving for a long period of time or get off a tredmil.), stress, anxiety, some chemical or neuroligical imbalance. It feels like it's getting worse b/c now my anxiety seems to spike and I start to get hot flashes and feel like I"m going to just drop dead (I'm 32 yrs old). I used to be sooooo athletic, outgoing, determined..now, since this started, I'm miserable. I feel useless, unable to focus, sad (b/c no one can figure this out and stop this and I want my life back!), frustrated.... I have found things that ease it, but don't rid of it. Yoga helps. Stretching my neck, shoulders and back really seem to help. Bending down to the floor and letting my head hang and the blood flow to my head relieves it. I'm seeing a chiropractor b/c I do have vertebra out of alignment in my neck that can also be causing some of this. AFter the therapy and adjustments I feel better, but only lasts for so long. Really hard massages seem to help and also sleep gets rid of it. If I take short naps and get up I feel perfect...then, depending on the day, it will either not come back for the rest of the day or it will start to come back with in an hr of getting back up. One strange thing, that I found gets rid of it for a little bit, is crying. Yes I said crying. I get so frustrated from it sometimes I just break down in tears and cry. When I stop..the dizziness is gone. I have no idea why this happens. Right now, one of my doctors, is really thinking it's inner ear and is having me take allegra and sudafed to dry up any fluid I may have. I'm to take this for 2 weeks and then go in for a follow up. So far..it's not working. If anyone has found a solution or what not please please please let me know. I pray every day for a miracle. Please email me if you have any ideas, suggestions or just need to talk.... and my name is Heather...

I have had the same "hungover feeling numbing dizzy-like headache with extreme fatigue" for years now - If I don't take anything I can hardly stand up or focus if i Lay down all i want to do is sleep... Taking Zyrtec-D helps it go away. I still do no think it is allergy related completely, definately not stress or anxiety.. Im getting a CT Scan tomorrow...my doc says it could be something related to having high blood pressure during my pregnacy over 13 yrs ago. I'm going to ask my doctor to test me for Lyme's Disease...I have heard so many people had it for a long time and doctors never detect it because the symptoms are slow acting.

How is everyone doing with these problems? Are they gone or still there? A lot of the symptoms that I've read seem very similar to what I went through for 8 years. I'd first like to add that I'm not a fan of drugs or chiropractors. I think naturally solutions are the best ones (unless you have cancer or some other serious illness). I'm re-posting what I posted somewhere else:

Hi my name is Tony, I'm 23. I suffered from tension headaches for about 8 years from high school until after college. I've always had really tight muscles in my arms, legs, back, etc. I noticed that when I stretched my sternocleidomastoids and the muscles at the base of my skull in the back of my head that I felt much more relieved. So I attributed my headaches to tight neck muscles (which was the reason for my headaches). However, after spending minutes or even hours stretching these muscles they always went back to being tight the next day or sometimes the same day that I stretched them. From this I concluded that the tight muscles were being strained by some other factor besides just having naturally tight muscles, like muscle imbalances. What allowed me to find the problem with my body was when I noticed that when I stood with my knees bent, or with my feet spread apart about more than twice shoulder width, my back and neck did not feel strained in any way. I discovered that my pelvis was out of place (rotate forward due to extremely tight hip flexors and possibly quadriceps). This was in turn causing my back and neck to be strained. I knew that my leg muscles were really tight, but I had no idea that was the reason for my headaches. So now I stretch my hip flexors, quads, hamstrings, groin, and neck (lightly) everyday and I feel incredible. I was able to fix my problem within a few days once I started loosening up my hip flexors. The difference between me now and a weeks ago is tremendous. Not only was I getting headaches, but I felt dizzy and very tense. Also, it became hard to talk at times because the front of my neck got so tight that I think it was causing problems with my vocal cords. Now I don't get headaches, feel dizzy, I'm much more relaxed, and I have my voice back! haha. The solution to my problem is something that I thought about everyday for years and it feels great for days to go by without it ever crossing my mind. You can imagine how bad my condition had become. I feel like a completely different person these days. The cause of your tension headaches might not be the same as the cause of mine, but I recommend stretching and strengthening all of the muscles in your legs, core, shoulders, and back. Also a light stretch in your neck. My last bit of advice is to do an assessment of your own body in the mirror and see if your hips are aligned, along with your shoulders and neck IN A RELAXED STATE. It won't do any good to have force your body to have good posture by pulling on your shoulders, hips, etc. It should come naturally. I hope this helps in some way or another! Tony