Freaking out here... :\

[[em...]]

Let me start with saying I am freaking out at the moment.  I am terrified of having a stroke or brain tumor or something else equally horrifying.  I don't know if this is withdrawal related - I've been in a window for a few weeks now.

 

I have been running around a lot getting ready to move.  This weekend I drove up to the new area, looked at a ton of apartments, and drove back down.  Over the weekend I didn't get much sleep, didn't eat much and what I did was crap, and didn't drink a lot of water at all.  I felt like shit.  Before going up I was having a real bad sinus headache for a few days but it seems to have passed before I left.

 

Today I had to fix a wall and repaint a room in my old place.  I made sure to eat a lot and have been sipping on water.  Part way through I started feeling very dizzy.  Not really dizzy like I was going to pass out - I never got that hot sweaty tunnel vision pins and needles feeling.  But dizzy like when I was first coming off the Xanax... that sort of "head pulled to one side" feeling.

 

It's been a little bit but I still feel weird - not so dizzy, but my eyes feel weird and my head/balance feels "pulled" in one direction.  I'm so scared that there is something wrong in my brain or that I am going to fall over and pass out.

 

Keeping a panic attack at bay... I'm supposed to go over to my boyfriends parent's place tonight for dinner and am already freaked out about feeling weird there.

 

:(   Please help...

[[be...]]

Maybe it is the paint fumes combined with extra stress. They certainly can cause some of the sensations that you are feeling. I don't think you are having a stroke. In withdrawal I went to the ER more than a few times convinced I had a stroke or something even worse. Many of the members here have. You have also been in A LOT of stress with your upcoming move. Of course if you are truly worried I would advise going to the ER. Knowing that you are not having a stroke or having a brain tumor might be comforting. You are already starting to feel a bit better. I don't know why that won't continue. Hopefully your window will once again open. Take a deep breath. You are going to be ok.

[[em...]]

Thank you... I am eating a banana and sipping some water... it seems to be passing...

[[be...]]

Thank you... I am eating a banana and sipping some water... it seems to be passing...

 

Good, I am glad to hear that. I know that fresh paint makes me sick...dizzy and feeling really strange.

[[Cr...]]

I have this everyday, the strange dizziness, sometimes i feel im being twisted up and others its like the floor is moving....I'm six months out and had a long window of almost no symptoms for 2 months before this before I got slammed. Gotta assume it's WD.

[[pr...]]

It's been a little bit but I still feel weird - not so dizzy, but my eyes feel weird and my head/balance feels "pulled" in one direction.  I'm so scared that there is something wrong in my brain or that I am going to fall over and pass out.

 

 

emotionshateme,

 

i don't wish to scare you and please know that i am one of the more extreme cases on here. but i've had this "brain pulling" and head pulling over to the left for 28 months daily now. it's exhausting. there have been times when i was convinced that the doctor in the detox where i did the cold turkey put some kind of chip/device into my brain. i mean, convinced. i had to keep asking my peeps on here if they could do that. there were also times i felt i had a brain tumor or something else very wrong.

 

it's from the withdrawal and let me tell you if this is something you do not have on a regular basis, you are really lucky. if this something that is just coming now it should go away for you soon. i don't know when of if this will ever go away for me. i get really scared sometimes and i'm totally wiped out. but just be assured that it's all from withdrawal.

 

prettydaisys

 

[[em...]]

That is really scary... I can't imagine this being a daily symptom.  I don't understand it, either.  I understand dizziness... but before this mess I never knew what it felt like to be pulled in one direction...

[[pr...]]

That is really scary... I can't imagine this being a daily symptom.  I don't understand it, either.  I understand dizziness... but before this mess I never knew what it felt like to be pulled in one direction...

 

i'm sorry you're feeling this horrible symptom. i honestly don't know how i've endured this? yes it's a daily and nightly thing i have to contend with. i get scared it will never go away but i have to remind myself that there are many other brain and other symptoms that have gone away. so it's all the healing -- everything you're feeling is the healing and it can feel scary sometimes. i guess this kind of healing is not supposed to "feel" good all the time. i guess that is what windows are for and let me tell you, if you have already had a window, that is an extremely good sign. there are people on here who never get windows, or at least they don't talk about them if they do. i've had only 6 windows so far.    so i know there is more for me.

[[Ga...]]

ive had it too. like im being pulled over. also feeling pushed down on sofa.

 

im thinking dizziness\balance probs go w xanax wd.