Weak neck, dizzy, fatigued, heavy head, feel sick, help!

I have experienced the same issues. It came out know where with dizziness, sweating, feeling like someone was on my chest. I couldn't get out of bed for 3 wks I was prescribed meclazine for the dizziness which did help out a lot. After the three weeks it would come and go. Now I have this heavy neck feeling, my esophagus feels tight, I feel groggy, and out of it sometimes. This has been going on now for 4 months and I feel like I'm going crazy. I have had every test and this week I saw a gastro doc who stated that I probably have viseral hypersensitivity along with anxiety. I looked at anxiety nd all the symptoms seems to really point to anxiety which is so weird because I have never suffered from that before. My gastro doc is going to give me celexa which is an anti anxiety medication that gastro docs use to aid in the visceral hypersensitivity. I'll let you know how that seems to work.

Apparenty visceral hypersensitivity is where your nerve endings from you esophagus to your stomach are kind of going crazy and it causes all the symptoms that I described. My doc said that once you start to focus every day on these symptoms you really start to make them worse therefore causing yourself to now also suffer from anxiety. I mean I guess it all makes sense!

We will see how well I do with the celexa medication!

I had all this and it is caused by cervical arthritis If you look it up you will find pain weakness dizziness and depression Treatments vary but you could actually do harm with a chiropractor if there is nerve impingment You need a cervical and brain MRI Any GP can order that. The fact that yoou neck is involved rules out ear Your eighth cranial nerve controls balance it is in the back of your head You really need a good doc and an mri I would see a neurologist.

u said in ur xray ur spine was forward? i had something like this happen to me when i was younger and everyone thought i was faking. when i had to wake up early to go to school my neck felt stiff and weak....that caused alot of throwing up and bad headaches..anyway and xray showed it was spasms and when i held my head down at school or long car rides i got ill..... the spasms untreated made my spine straight... i think u should get a second look on that xray...and they taught me an exercise. put ur head all the way down and hold your chin down just enough to add some weight and lift ur head while holding ur chin....just enough to add a little pressure...makes ur neck stronger.

I'm now finished with my 38th doctor. No help whatsoever.

I have learned not too use the word vertigo as everyone assumes your spinning around wen you say that. Even dizziness suggests that.
My problem is a rocking sensation, sea legs. Sitting or standing in a row boat. I sit up I tip over.

When I stand I feel like I'm sinking into the ground like in quicksand.

The first 6 or 7 years of this i really didn't notice the neck & back stiffness,burning, soreness. Now it is constant. MRI's show cervical spine buldging discs etc.. but the neurologist say NO it's not causing the balance problem. I have seen 12 Neurologists and 11 ENT's

They are wrong! This problem is connected some how.

What i wanted to share with is something is THIS.

Write down what makes you feel worse
Write down what relieves your symptoms if anything does at all.

See ALL the test in the world are one thing, but clues are another.
I have all the evidence that my neck & back are a big part of my balance disorder. But Bozo the doctors can't look past there tests and charts. And not only that 34 of the 38 I saw didn't care about me one teeny bit. I can see that in persons eyes any person in 5 seconds.

NOTE! Nobody cares about you more than YOU! Meaning no one is gonna help you more than yourself. Question answers!
Don't waste time with MD's who don't want to help you.

This is not like a TV show where they sit around and talk about there patients and how they can't sleep at night until they figure outr what's wrong with you. You are a muffler at Midas. 10 - 15 minutes and on to the next muffler.

I'm MUCH worse now as I can't hold up my own body weight and can't do ANYTHING basically. It's taken me all night to type this. 13 years of NOTHING! but BS. My job terminated me six years now.. denied disability twice already. Nobody cares! This all causes loads of trouble. Anxiety Panic & depression as well.

If your having panic attacks due to your balance trouble let me know.
I have figured out a way to beat them totally.

God Bless and keep sharing your stories, you never know where help is gonna come from it may be each other.!

I cannot believe Im reading the EXACT same problems I was having trouble explaining myself! Heavy head --- neck feels weak -- dizzy -- weird nausea feeling.

What have you found out? I have an ENT appt coming up. Im so worried that ive been watching my sugar --- thought it might be hypoglycemia. Monitoring my blood pressure --- its not that either.

I suppose it could be extreme fatigue? Tension? Stress?

But how does that cause the dizzy, heavy head feeling?

Same feeling here, too! When I explained it to my doctor she said I don't have vertigo or I would be holing on to my chair or something. She mentioned blood pressure drops when you stand up, and I said no that's not the same feeling. In fact, when I'm standing up and walking around I usually feel a little better. She thought I should try some anti-anxiety medicine. So I started taking Wellbutrin, and it helps a little. I still feel dizzy, but now I don't get as anxious about it and make it worse. I am pretty sure it is the anxiety, since it is worse in certain situations (driving, sitting in boring meetings, grocery store...). And when I first wake up in the morning I feel pretty good for like 30 minutes. So I figure if it's MS or a brain tumor or something I would feel ok sometimes in my bad situations and feel bad sometimes in my ok scenarios. But I'm only about 85% convinced!

When searching I did find something interesting: http://www.medicinenet.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=79520. Where the guy says it is like shaking your head back and forth 20 times pretty much is exactly what it's like. I wish I read this before trying to explain it to my doctor! So we'll see what the medicine does once it fully kicks in. If she is right, then I don't want to be the dummy that spends $2000 on an MRI for no reason. So I'll put some money towards some alternative therapies such as acupuncture, hypnosis, massage, etc... instead. If it doesn't cure the dizziness, at least I'll feel more relaxed!

Sounds like I have been experiencing the same thing for a year and a half. I have had headaches and my neck aches constantly...with varying degrees of severity. My head feels heavy on my neck. Acupuncture, Chiropractor and massage only helps temporarily. I have had CT and MRI done on my brain/head...and both were normal. Also went to ENT...everything normal. Blood tests...normal. This totally sucks! I have felt absolutely miserable for a year and a half. The pain in my head and neck make me feel disoriented, tired all the time, it's very hard to focus, I feel less motivated, even feel stupid at times and I've always been a smart person. It's very depressing and I totally feel for all the people out there with the same problem. Nobody understands and it's frustrating going several different doctors and never really getting and answer. One doctor said it's tension headaches..gave me meds, but they didn't help. This last time I went...just a week ago...the doctor swears it is just muscle tension. She gave me muscle relaxants...and guess what...those don't help either. I don't know what else to do.........................but I don't want to live the rest of my life feeling like this!

Hello I have had the same problem for 1 1/2 years it has destroyed everything in my life. Relationships jobs everything.
When it first started I went to 5 different doctors, specialists , physiothearapy everything.
The first year I was depressed angry so I tried anything .
Now I have large breasts so I have bad posture . I went to a physo who
Told me what it is.
The blood from your body can not flow to your brain
Because your neck musles are to tight. So what she did was massage
My neck and my jaw bones. I got up and went home feeling worse
But later that day at work my ear unplugged and my eye watered
Which ment that the blood started flowing to my head again!
But I never went back for a second treatment because I was dumb.
I want you to try some things that help me alot?

1. Sleep with your back on the bed so you are looking at the celing
And sleep with a pillow between your legs( makes the spine straight)
And make sure your head is all the way on the pillow with your neck because
If your neck is not on the pillow there is no support for it that is why the mussles are so week.

2. Go and buy a very firm pillow. The firmest you can find so you have more support and your
Neck musles get strong.

3. Massage your lower head neck and shoulders for
Half an hour each night. Firm to get the knots out and get the blood flowing.
Finally the thing that made me feel so much better is cranial sacral thearapy.
It is a massage with no pressure but it relaxes your musles and makes you better
It is the best thing that will cure you. Google it I think it's called sacral cranial thearapy .
Let me know how it goes

Dear Wannahelpout,

1- You are absolutely right. Right spinal postures are essential.

2- Accidentally, I started practicing Yoga. The damnest thing happend:

All the back stretches like Cobra, Bending forward, Triangle, ... and neck and shoulder stretches (While avoiding all the upside down postures like sirshasana) are the ultimate cure for this problem.

I practiced them for 2 weeks and ALL my symptoms were gone!

Then I thought it's over. 1 week later, I was light headed again, so I practiced those postures again. Since then (I'm practicing everyday)
I haven't had a single episode of dizziness, fatigue, lightheadedness, ....

My only concern is: Do I have to practice yoga for the rest of my life?

I have same thing degenerative disc disease but testing showed I had vestibulopathy which is damage to the balance area of the ear.
We balance from the eyes, ears, and neck muscles so if one is NOT functioning the others get overloaded. So the neck muscles get tight and we can I think experience dizziness from the neck area from nerve impingement which no test can show not even MRI or Xrays can show IF a nerve is getting irritated. Good luck to all