dizziness & fatigue

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   Our user asked: "I have suffered with dizziness and lightheadedness for 4 years now to the point I had to quite work and go out on disability....I now suffer with anxiety and depression because of the vertigo i have because they cannot find the cause...I have been to 3 ENT doctors had 3 Mri's in the last 4 years, had eyes checked, arteries in my next checked,thyroids and other blood work done to no avail...but I have dizziness everyday that has me now sucluded to the house because of the fear of getting out and dizzy...I just cant understand why someone doesnt see something that is causeing this..I have taken meclizine and all the other things for dizziness but they dont help at all....do you think physical therapy would help me even though i did that about 3 years ago when all this first started but had to quite cause i got so weak and lost 40 pounds...but all my test come back fine and they say i am fine but I am not...you can look at me and my eyes will tell you I am not well..even my family sees this...does some people just have to settel for this or is there other things out there I can do for help...thankyou for any suggestions"

Our user asked: "I am sorry to hear about your condition. It must be very frustrating to not know what is causing your condition. As far as your question goes in regards to physical therapy - Is your vertigo elicited by positional changes ie. turning head, changing positions in bed, etc..? If it is - it could be a condition called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo which can be treated by a physical therapist.

It sounds like you have seen all the specialists and undergone all the tests - perhaps you may want to also consider alternative medicine such as acupuncture, yoga, etc. to exhaust all your choices. From talking to an acupuncturist, she stated that dizziness/vertigo can be treated with acupuncture ie: http://www.acupuncture.com/conditions/dizziness.htm depending on what is revealed during the initial evaluation. Sorry I couldn't have been of more help. I wish you the best of luck."

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	Our user asked: "I have suffered with dizziness and lightheadedness for 4 years now to the point I had to quite work and go out on disability....I now suffer with anxiety and depression because of the vertigo i have because they cannot find the cause...I have been to 3 ENT doctors had 3 Mri's in the last 4 years, had eyes checked, arteries in my next checked,thyroids and other blood work done to no avail...but I have dizziness everyday that has me now sucluded to the house because of the fear of getting out and dizzy...I just cant understand why someone doesnt see something that is causeing this..I have taken meclizine and all the other things for dizziness but they dont help at all....do you think physical therapy would help me even though i did that about 3 years ago when all this first started but had to quite cause i got so weak and lost 40 pounds...but all my test come back fine and they say i am fine but I am not...you can look at me and my eyes will tell you I am not well..even my family sees this...does some people just have to settel for this or is there other things out there I can do for help...thankyou for any suggestions" Our user asked: "I am sorry to hear about your condition. It must be very frustrating to not know what is causing your condition. As far as your question goes in regards to physical therapy - Is your vertigo elicited by positional changes ie. turning head, changing positions in bed, etc..? If it is - it could be a condition called Benign Paroxysmal Positional Vertigo which can be treated by a physical therapist. It sounds like you have seen all the specialists and undergone all the tests - perhaps you may want to also consider alternative medicine such as acupuncture, yoga, etc. to exhaust all your choices. From talking to an acupuncturist, she stated that dizziness/vertigo can be treated with acupuncture ie: http://www.acupuncture.com/conditions/dizziness.htm depending on what is revealed during the initial evaluation. Sorry I couldn't have been of more help. I wish you the best of luck."

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