Physical Symptoms?
Hi everyone,
For some context, I've been dealing with my symptoms for just about 2 months now. I am still waiting to see a neurologist, but I have recently started work with a PT that has experience with vestibular and concussion rehab. Her professional opinion is that while I have a ton of overlap with vestibular migraine and PPPD symptoms, it doesn't quite fit, and she believes cervicogenic dizziness is a piece of the puzzle (along with some visual processing component that I don't know anything about yet). As a result, I've started doing PT that involves massages, strengthening exercises, and dry needling.
My question to you all is about some of the other physical symptoms I've been dealing with. One thing that is really plaguing me right now is that I often wake up in the middle of the night with a sudden increase in dizziness, muscle tension all over my body including my chest, and warmth/heat (I'm either really warm when I wake up or I'm already drenched in sweat). This happens about 8 out of 10 nights at this point and is very disruptive to my rest. It feels like some kind of autonomic response, but of course my anxious brain also goes to cardiac issues. Has anyone else dealt with this as a symptom of your CD/CV? I can imagine that weakness in my neck could cause all kinds of downstream symptoms, but because I haven't had any thorough assessments besides the PT, I was hoping for maybe a little reassurance that this is normal and that I don't have some other serious problem going on 😄 Thanks for reading!!