Constant vertigo from 6 months
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Hi all, I'm 18 and for the last 6 months I've been facing continuous dizziness from when I get up in the morning to when I go to sleep at night.
So I have been having small attacks or dizziness/vertigo from past 3 years but I used to think it was my mind as I only used have it in school and the second I used to come back home I wouldn't have it but slowly it started coming when I was at home or outside with my friends but I never paid much attention.
From last july I was noticing that my balance was getting worse and worse and the intensity and duration of my attacks were becoming longer and severe.And last October when I was very stressed due to my academics, my vertigo flared up until one day I completely lost balance and fell in class.Since that day I have been having constant vertigo every single day from morning to night with very few instances where it came down, I have not attended school from past 6 months regularly. If I go I come back within 3 or 4 hours as I can't sit.Not only in school i have not been able to go shopping or sitting in restaurants, even at home I cannot sit for more that 15 minutes continuously.All required tests and scans are done and they are clear
My vertigo is more like I'm on a ship which is sailing through a storm. If I'm sitting in a chair, the chair suddenly goes up and down, tilts to the sides and I feel like falling. Noteworthy is that while I'm in a car I don't experience any vertigo.I don't have it much even when I lie down or walk.Its worse when i sit and stand still.Also I experience light sensitivity and my visions weird like sometimes if I look at something it looks unreal but apparently that's just a symptom of anxiety.im generally a very anxious person and im highly hypochondriac.
I went to an ent who diagnosed me with vestibular migraine and bbpv and prescribed me flunarize 10mg and that made my vertigo 20x worse, I barely could walk and was bed ridden for 5 days.After that I took ayurveda medicines and it calmed down.
I visited a couple of other doctors, one said it was psychiatric and that migraines cannot last for 6 months straight and continuously and prescribed me a mild ssri which I'm currently taking and I'm also going through physiotherapy to strengthen my neck muscles as someone said neck can cause dizziness but it didn't help much.
Please if anyone has any idea about this or has gone through this please tell me what it could be and what to do.My life is completely ruined because of this, I am not able to go to school, go out with friends and even struggle to do day to day tasks any.
Thank you.