Hehehehe....me too!!!

I am on blood pressure medication and thyroid medication and I have had no associated dizzy spells. I did once or twice, however, get dizzy, really dizzy, room spinning around dizzy, when I changed position. There's a name for it, but I long ago forgot it. What happens is that some tiny chip of bone somehow gets into the semicircular canals in your inner ear that control balance. It sets up little tidal waves that make you feel really dizzy. It goes away in time as that bone chip dissolves. You just have to avoid sudden moves or expect some vertigo. Now, it may be your medication, but it could also be just something quirky like this.

That's what my sister has, Barb. It's Meniere's disease. She says when she's having an episode she lays down on her bed and shakes her head really hard and those little things shake up and then settle down and she's fine until the next episode, LOL

I did try that and it didn't take away the dizzy feeling.

Cat,

keep us updated and please be careful...we don't want anything happening to you. I know inner ear infections can cause that but doctor should check you out to make sure that you are OK....

Sometimes it's inner ear tho sometimes it's just something that seems to occur and then may go away on it's own after some time. My Uncle had terrible bouts of vertigo where he thought he was dying and that lasted about a year off and on. A friend of mine who is close in age to me also had this and with both people even tho they went to every imaginable specialist there was no real diagnosis other than vertigo and they never figured out what caused it. It stopped in both people.

I would just caution you to be very careful re driving with this as well as other things.

I don't know if your regular physician is an Internal Medicine specialist or a General Practitioner however the first person should be able to send you for a CT scan of the brain to rule out anything that might be there like a mass or such thing. If it were me I'd probably go see an ENT next (ears nose throat) specialist who will rule out inner ear conditions and if you've had a brain CT scan and it's Ok then if the ENT clears you maybe you'd see a neurologist and a cardiologist. Each specialist will do whatever screening falls under his or her scope of practice and then if you get a clean bill you move on to the next specialist to rule out xyz. By then you should have a diagnosis with findings and/or maybe things will be better already. Good luck.. hope it does go away soon whatever is causing it.

Angelpuss and I are sending purrayers and warm thoughts your way cause we know being dizzy is no fun.

Cat, do you feel queasy too? I get the inner ear vertigo and sometimes when really bad, I feel sick to my stomach. This is something that can be caused by so many things but you shouldn't be driving. Hope you get some help soon. Wishing you the best

Cat, I sure hope you can figure this out!

I saw my primary today. She said my thyroid levels were so low she was surprised I was even able to get out of bed in the morning. (Apparently she intends to find out why my levels got so far out of whack in the first place.) The endocrinologist is aware and had bumped up my dosage so as far as he was concerned, he was doing everything already...except the part where he actually TOLD me that it might all be related. She thinks that the anaphylactic shock from the niacin allergy is not completely out of my system, either and might be an underlying cause. She doesn't expect the dizziness to just disappear overnight but will fade away in time. My bp was the best it's been since I was in my 20's!!! 118/72 All in all, I just have to wait and it will all come together.

Thanks y'all... it's wonderful that you care

Good to hear you are on track to finding out the root cause. I hope the dizziness dissipates sooner rather than later.