- Vertigo, allergies and worrying -

[XJMatt]

Well, Heya guys, i have come onto the anxiety community once more. Seeing as this has been the most help filled column, i couldnt help but think to get a few things of my chest, if anybody takes jus five minutes to read this i'd be very appreciative :)

So where do i begin, as of late i've been on a course of citlalopram (Depression medication) for over 4 months and Anti allergie remedies (e.g, nose spray, Antihistamine) with mixed success.

These are symptoms i've struggled and, for a better word, been stressing and thinking on, which i know just makes things worse, but, that comes in the territory of panic and anxiety disorder -

Symptoms -

Vertigo/dizzyness- Its unerving, feels to me like a nightmare, the only way i can explain it, is that it feels like i'm swaying,pressure all over my head , a sudden dropping like sensation out of nowhere,climbed a very tall height and i've looked down, sinking, wobbling about and almost like my body is pulsating (legs,head and neck etc). this started about a day ago after losing a fair amount of sleep and some stress.

Sleep loss/insomnia - there are some nights i dont get any atall, so i feel like rubbish, constantly tired, drained and i fall asleep during the day (round about 3am now as i type, just an example there)

Allergies - i'm a hayfever sufferer, spray and pills have kept most of the bothers at bay but it did worry me when my nose began to produce tiny blood speckles everytime i blew it which has happened before at certain times of the spring/summer season (just to note, i DONT cough up any blood specks in any chest flem after a cough, its only ever come out of my nose, which makes me wonder if somethings getting inflamed or i'm blowing too hard)

Tinitus - its been going on weeks now, its constant, sometimes quite loud or quiet, and goes from a whine to a rumble in my head, i do know...that the last time i saw my GP he told me that my ears were packed up with wax, could that be contributing to it?

There is more, but its mostly what comes with depression and anxiety, fears that something more fatal is going on, some sort of disease, and once those thoughts settle in that awful cycle starts happening and thats the trigger for staying up with worry and going into hysteria that it would all just go away...migraines dont help either, even though i've had them since i was a kid, it still contributes to the thinking "tumor?....Menieres?....MS?...Aneurysm?..."

I just cant pin anything down to one thing or specific problem, i sort of imagine it as one big cocktail of health upsets, so, if anybody did take time to just read this over, and you have anything to advise, please go right ahead, i'm open to listen.

Thankyou :)

[AO111]

Yep drinking and late night were my thing till I had a melt down. Late nights are still my thing but not drinking. My therapist told me that alcohol actually cancels out the effects of antidepressant meds so I'm guessing the drinking makes it like your not even taking an antidepressant. I just want this vertigo crap to go away.

[XJMatt]

Heya :)

Very similar to me, i will put my hands up and admit i have had drinks while i've been on them,  and late nights, which almost certainly dosn't help, its just the negative feeling ya know?, i wonder if the meds are doing anything to help. And i feel for you in the same way that the vertigo is unpleasant, and just not something i can put up with.

[AO111]

Hmm I'm also on citalopram. I was on 20 mg. for quite sometime. I had started to drink heavily and then I was getting vertigo sensations even during the day when I was sober. I'd have the swaying and feeling like I'm falling or sinking sensations. Then one week I started having severe anxiety and panic attacks. My doctor upped my citalopram to 40 mg and my anxiety isn't as bad but I still get the vertigo feeling even though I stopped drinking. Actually I think the vertigo is what brings on my anxiety right now because it freaks me out when I feel like that.